Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread elijah r.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice > on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have > another method that would work better) Look into dd_rescue. Use it to make disk image

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

2008-09-12 Thread elijah r.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is what I want to do possible? I wanted to do the compression on the > new laptop as it's my fastest computer (The other computer that i'm > transferring to is an old celeron 300MHz baby with 2 750G drives as my > NAS). Hi,

Re: sound popping on powerbook DVI

2008-09-08 Thread elijah r.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Jeff Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm compiling a fresh kernel, just to see if that happens to fix it, but > otherwise I'm not sure what to do. Where would I report this bug, > www.kernel.org? Hi Jeff, For the procedures on reporting Linux kernel bugs in Debian

Re: sound popping on powerbook DVI

2008-09-07 Thread elijah r.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Loren Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing I had to configure manually was to put the line > "snd-powermac" in /etc/modules to get sound to automatically work after > booting. The problem is that sound often clicks. If I use the trackpad it > clic

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread elijah r.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Mike Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox says "Download login.pl?". Half the time it downloads home.html, and > half the time it downloads login.pl, both files blank as /dev/null. I guess > it's a problem with Firefox, then? Some web browsers (notably IE) wi

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-11 Thread elijah r.
> What I'm worried about is the tools I use. In particular, I need a browser > with all the usual suspects working properly: flash and java (unfortunately > some of the tools I need to use at work are written in these abominable > languages). Does anyone do heavy java and flash usage under 64bit

Re: i want to only load certain programs on boot

2008-08-01 Thread elijah r.
>> When my system boots it boots with alot of programs. I want to select what i >> want to load. Thanks Also, I just remembered: when I was doing something similar a few months ago, I used a program called bootchart to generate a nice PNG image file that charted how much time each process took du

Re: i want to only load certain programs on boot

2008-08-01 Thread elijah r.
Hi, Try: apt-get install sysv-rc-conf sysv-rc-conf On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM, darren naidoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When my system boots it boots with alot of programs. I want to select what i > want to load. Thanks > > _ > Sent from my phone using flurry -

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-07-31 Thread elijah r.
> dd if=${device} conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | ssh -l ${user} ${host} "dd > of=file.bin bs=64K" Unless you need to encrypt, I recommend that you just use netcat instead of ssh, as it will be faster. I also recommend a larger block size. Using a 64k block size will take a long time, even if you tak

Re: UNIX Logins by Proxy Over the Web

2008-07-31 Thread elijah r.
>The web server that the clients would initially use is > not under my control but the UNIX application would hopefully > be. If the initial web server is not under your control, but the UNIX server is, why not install a web server on the UNIX machine? That would be the cleanest, fastest w

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread elijah r.
Say your flash disk is /dev/sdc and has 1 FAT partition where the music is stored: cd ~ dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=zenstone2g.img bs=64M mkdir /mnt/zenstoneimg mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg ---delete anything in /mnt/zenstoneimg/music you don't want - cp -R /path/to/my/music/*

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread elijah r.
Correction: mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg should read: mount -o loop -t msdos zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg Material Safety Data Sheets do not play a part here. :-) You might also try -t vfat, one of them should work. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, elijah r. <[EM

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread elijah r.
> I don't know if the netinstall cd would do. Does it use the same installer, as > on the 1st i386 cd for Etch? I am pretty sure it is exactly the same, but it grabs installation packages from the internet instead of from the local CD/DVDs. Also, I wasn't sure whether you had tried passing the "ac

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread elijah r.
Debian Etch ISO images are available for download, completely free, via the internet, just like those Fedora ISO's you are downloading. I highly recommend you get the single Debian NetInstall ISO. Since you are using a Dial-Up connection, this will be the fastest way to install Debian. On a side

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread elijah r.
> I cannot forward X from the putty. Maybe I need a bidirection enable in the > firewall to do that. This might not be what you're looking for, but I believe that x11vnc with the -localhost argument would still let you do a VNC session over SSH. -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

2008-06-25 Thread elijah r.
Hi Mirco, Unless I am mistaken, if you don't have a DNS Server then winbind should do the trick. -Elijah On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > I have 2 new running Debian Etch :-) server into an (old) Windows > environment. > Servers work like a cha

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread elijah r.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of > using the Asus eee (read "no hard drive") for processing in a robot. It Hello, If you are running Debian on your EeePC and are using the eeepc-acpi

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-18 Thread elijah r.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OT> On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> does no one use 'talk' anymore? > OT> Talking is a viable op