Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 5:20 AM Chris Green wrote: > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile > doesn't get run. > > If I ssh into the laptop then .profile does get run. > > So what might cause this

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/10/2024 18:08, Chris Green wrote: > > Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run > > ~/.profile. > > LightDM package in Ubuntu contains an additional script that reads > ~/.profile (like SDDM in Debian). Some hints: > > - >

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 12:08:31 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 26 Oct 2024 10:13 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green): > > > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went > > > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profi

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

On 26/10/2024 18:08, Chris Green wrote: Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run ~/.profile. LightDM package in Ubuntu contains an additional script that reads ~/.profile (like SDDM in Debian). Some hints: -

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

On 26 Oct 2024 12:08 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green): >> As I understand it, those are meant to be run by a _login shell_. This >> sets them apart from e.g. ~/.bashrc which is read each time _bash_ is >> started. >> > Yes, and entering one's name and password at GUI start-up **is** > loggi

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 26 Oct 2024 10:13 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green): > > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went > > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile > > doesn't get run. > > Is starting a GUI session (whether X11

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > [-- text/plain, size 0.6K, charset UTF-8, 29 lines, encoding quoted-printable > --] > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 5:20 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went > > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

On 26 Oct 2024 10:13 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green): > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile > doesn't get run. Is starting a GUI session (whether X11/Xorg or Wayland) even _supposed_ to

Re: New Debian

Dear Sophie, could you please explain the relation of your planned Debian installation with Michael Schwibinger. Does he know that you use his name here ? This list is an international community where humorous statements should be clearly marked as such, or else they end up in our minds as cluele

Re: New Debian

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:00:55PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > we did download an ISO File. For the love of glob. *** WHICH ISO FILE?? ***

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On 10/12/21 21:47, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 12 oct 21, 00:02:50, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to prefer

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Ma, 12 oct 21, 00:02:50, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to prefer using a > > > > LUKS cont

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:03:50 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 10/11/21 13:13, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:29:48 -0700 > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > >> I must detach e-mail attachments and save them on the server > > > > You could run an IMAP server on your server, se

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to prefer using a LUKS container instead? I use LUKS because ZFS native encryption was not available OO

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:29:48, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > Once Debian is running, I suggest that you connect the HDD, partition the > > > HDD using GPT, create one partition using 95% of avai

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On 10/11/21 13:13, Joe wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:29:48 -0700 David Christensen wrote: I must detach e-mail attachments and save them on the server You could run an IMAP server on your server, set up an account in your email client with a suitable directory structure and drag and drop ol

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:29:48, David Christensen wrote: Once Debian is running, I suggest that you connect the HDD, partition the HDD using GPT, create one partition using 95% of available space, initialize a LUKS container inside the partition, and create

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:29:48, David Christensen wrote: > > Once Debian is running, I suggest that you connect the HDD, partition the > HDD using GPT, create one partition using 95% of available space, initialize > a LUKS container inside the partition, and create a ZFS pool with name > "data" and wi

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:29:48 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > I must detach > e-mail attachments and save them on the server You could run an IMAP server on your server, set up an account in your email client with a suitable directory structure and drag and drop old email into archives, comple

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On 10/11/21 04:18, Josef Strýček wrote: Hi, I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var /tmp /opt. You should be able to achieve that layout with the Debian installer (d-i) by choosin

Re: New debian installation disk partition

Hi Josef, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:18:55PM +0200, Josef Strýček wrote: > I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd > and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var  Of course. > /tmp /opt. Could you recommend layout for ssd and hdd,

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:18:55, Josef Strýček wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd > and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var  > > /tmp /opt. Sure you can. > Could you recommend layout for ssd and hdd, that

Re: New debian installation disk partition

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:18:55PM +0200, Josef Strýček wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd > and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var  > > /tmp /opt. Could you recommend layout for ssd and hdd, that ssd

Re: new debian install

On Mi, 10 iul 19, 06:18:10, N D wrote: > Hello, Hello, > I am looking for a Linux distribution that is stable and have just > installed Debian 9 as a windows 7 replacement. Debian 10 was released just a few days ago, you might want to give it a try instead. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wi

Re: new debian install

the characters are not intended to show, not even a string of it is for security. I don't know if it can be changed does it accept the password? On 7/9/19 11:18 PM, N D wrote: Hello, I am looking for a Linux distribution that is stable and have just installed Debian 9 as a windows 7

Re: new debian install

Can you provide a screenshot? Not sure if they are allowed on the mailing list :-) What desktop environment are you using? Does your keyboard input work otherwise? Generally linux systems are stable, I assume you are using debian--since you are in this mailinglist. On July 10, 2019 8:18:10

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:49:07 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry > wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: >> >>> I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months >>> of consideration, to move my hosting fr

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: > >> I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of >> consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealo

Re: New Debian user help

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealots here (Debian is an excellent distribution IMHO), but as a

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Paul Stuffins wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > I currently have a couple VPS' and have installed Debian on both of them, > one will be my da

Re: New Debian user help

Paul Stuffins wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Paul Stuffins wrote: > > > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > > > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > > root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 > > That is excellent, thanks

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul Stuffins wrote: > > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > Welcome! > > > root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 > > ... >

Re: New Debian user help

Paul Stuffins wrote: > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Welcome! > root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 > ... > Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3

Re: New debian-installation - question

On 03/26/2011 05:04 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi list, just some simple questions: I am going to create a small installations cd from an already installed system (with my own settings). As I want it small and secure, I do not want any logfiles on this cd. I am using bootcdwrite. So my questions

Re: New Debian Server: Add/Remove Applications Hangs, Blocks Other GUI Apps

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:59, Bob Proulx wrote: ... > I have no idea what is happening in that subsystem.  I never use it. > > Good luck! Thanks, Bob. Regards, -Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: New Debian Server: Add/Remove Applications Hangs, Blocks Other GUI Apps

Tom Browder wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > What are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? > > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main > deb

Re: New Debian Server: Add/Remove Applications Hangs, Blocks Other GUI Apps

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 03:44, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: ... >> When I try to use the "Add/Remove Applications" it chugs for a while, > > you are using a GUI wrapper around apt.  Because it is a wrapper there > may be errors that you are not seeing.  Let me recommend that you run > ap

Re: New Debian Server: Add/Remove Applications Hangs, Blocks Other GUI Apps

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 03:44, Bob Proulx wrote: ... Bob, thanks for answering. I can't give detailed reply tight now, but I will later. Regards, -Tom Thomas M. Browder, Jr. Niceville, Florida USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: New Debian Server: Add/Remove Applications Hangs, Blocks Other GUI Apps

Tom Browder wrote: > On my freshly installed Lenny 5.0.5 box. I have my network working > enough to get new packages, browse, and ssh to other hosts, but i am > having trouble with some administrative GUI apps. Good! > When I try to use the "Add/Remove Applications" it chugs for a while, you ar

Re: New Debian install problem

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:06 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > It is a driver, video card issue, ATI. The radeon driver changed. Search > for 'white screen of death' , ATI Ok, the problem is all over the web, from time to time. what's the solution? I don't have any proprietary fglrx ati drivers insta

Re: New Debian install problem

Mike, That's great ! I'm not quite sure why you could see a mouse pointer if your video card wasn't working. Very strange. My experience with ATI and Linux has been very bad. I've got an ATI in this G5 that I'm using and it's been the first ATI card which has worked reliably for me under Linu

Re: New Debian install problem

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 16:51:38 Mike Allegro wrote: > I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. After the > installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux loaded up, when it > goes into the graphics part I see a blue screen with a symbol that > reminds me of the ho

Re: New debian-user-dutch mailinglist?

Paul van der Vlis schreef: > Hallo, > > Ik wou een beetje polsen of er hier mensen zijn die interesse hebben in > een Debian mailinglijst in het Nederlands. Ik heb al een paar mensen die > geinteresseerd zijn, mochten er nog een paar bij komen dan zal ik er een > starten. > > Uiteraard is er al N

Re: New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

Michael Pobega writes: > I don't mean to be a downer, but why not just write your HowTos on > http://wiki.debian.org? It's a subdomain of the official Debian website, > and from my experience splitting information between sites just makes > things harder to find. Perhaps Christoph didn't know ab

Re: New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:48:34PM -0800, Christoph Pilka wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am working for several weeks on a new wiki containing lot lof > interesting and _working_ howtos. You can find it at > http://debian.asconix.com. > The howtos explain step-by-step the setup of server or desktop > i

Re: New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

On Mon, 2009-02-16, 047, Christoph Pilka wrote: > The first howtos I published cover topics like Lighttpd (+PHP/MySQL/ > SSL), Awesome Window Manager, Zattoo IPTV, KeePassX as password > manager, effective backups running on rsync, keybased SSH- > authentication, VMware Workstation and Debian on NS

Re: New Debian Image

[I am forwarding this to debian-user, since this seems the appropriate list. Debian-devel is about discussion among developers. ] On 2008-09-17 13:30, Emmanuele BARBARO wrote: > News about my question? > > -Original Message- From: Emmanuele BARBARO > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:08:37AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/08/2008 09:57 PM, Taahir wrote: > >I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its > >own hard > >disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive > >is > >currently not connected,

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:46:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] >> >> there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, >> I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that >> card. Realise that the 8xxx series ca

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that card. Realise that the 8xxx series cards are having lots of trouble with the nvidia drivers. I've given up on g

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

On 08/08/2008 09:57 PM, Taahir wrote: I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its own hard disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive is currently not connected, so that isn't a factor. My graphics card is an nvidia 8800 gts. My proble

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:57:44PM -0500, Taahir wrote: > > I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its own > hard > disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive is > currently not connected, so that isn't a factor. My graphics card is an

Re: New Debian Packages Page

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Has it been mentioned that > >> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages has a new > >> look? Looks very nice! Somebody did a lot of work. > >> > >> Whoever that person was: thank you! > > > > new look? I don't see much difference than the

Re: New Debian Packages Page

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 17:19, KS wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has it been mentioned that >> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages has a new look? >> Looks very nice! Somebody did a lot of work. >> >> Whoever that person was: thank

Re: New Debian Packages Page

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Has it been mentioned that > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages has a new look? > Looks very nice! Somebody did a lot of work. > > Whoever that person was: thank you! > > Hugo > > new look? I don't see much difference than the last time I c

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: >hi again :) >finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have >installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried >before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe >i mean

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:48:58 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: > >- Original Message >From: Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Lorenas Bartkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Debian User >Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:15:41 AM >Subject: Re: new debia

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: >hi again :) >finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have >installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried >before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe >i mean

Re: new debian user. help :)

Lorenas Bartkus wrote: > hi, > I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try > debian for the first time. > i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the > bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror > i can't. > because it wa

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:07:45 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: >hi, >I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try >debian for the first time. Welcome to Debian. I hope your stay will be long and enjoyable :-) >i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, i

Re: new debian user. help :)

Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi, I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try debian for the first time. i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror i can't. because it was said no

Re: new debian user question about mysql on debian

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:35:56PM +0100, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello >I've install mysql on a etch box e I've noticed a debian-sys-maint user. See /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.0/README.Debian.gz - it's automagically created to help the init scripts and the like. >Shouldnt this user h

Re: New debian user question about remote instalation

On 5/29/07, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I'm using fedora for a long time, but now I will use debian. I wounder if there any feature like redhat's kickstart for debian. Thanks. Jaime Appendix B of the debian installation manual talks about preseeding. See http://www.debi

Re: New debian user question about remote instalation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello. > I'm using fedora for a long time, but now I will use debian. > I wounder if there any feature like redhat's kickstart for debian. The first page on google for 'kickstart for debian' [1] returns about four tools that wou

Re: New Debian user

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:53:35 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > > > [...] > > What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter > > linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got > > quite rusty over the years :-) > > [...] >

Re: New Debian user

Niels Rasmussen wrote: [...] What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite rusty over the years :-) [...] Look at section 7 of this article http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/checkinstall.html.en

Re: New Debian user

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:00:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> For myself, I just duplicate the existing root line in /etc/sudoers and >> then change one of the roots to my user. Granted, this isn't >> particularly secure, but it's easy and adds a significant level

Re: New Debian user

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:00:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > "man sudoers" is your friend. Well, maybe not your friend, but at least > a usable resource > > For myself, I just duplicate the existing root line in /etc/sudoers and > then change one of the roots to my user. Granted, this isn

Re: New Debian user

Niels Rasmussen wrote: As of # 2 What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite rusty over the years :-) "man sudoers" is your friend. Well, maybe not your friend, but at least a usable resource F

Re: New Debian user

Niels Rasmussen wrote: Oh boy oh boy :-) Well i did use the graphical installer which is quite nice despite some translations hickups ! It was all a matter of hitting Enter and Space and define some password for root and user. Apparantly it did find it all... BUT: Right now I in

Re: New Debian user

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > As of # 2 > What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux > command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite > rusty over the years :-) I don't like sudo too much so I use su. If you run

Re: New Debian user

Oh boy oh boy :-) Well i did use the graphical installer which is quite nice despite some translations hickups ! It was all a matter of hitting Enter and Space and define some password for root and user. Apparantly it did find it all... BUT: Right now I in the console running single

Re: New Debian user

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:54:09PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West skrev: > >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > > >>I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some > >>commands I can use to get all the info I need to instal

Re: New Debian user

Andrew Sackville-West skrev: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some commands I can use to get all the info I need to install "Etch" ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save your

Re: New Debian user

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some > commands I can use to get all the info I need to install "Etch" ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save yourself a download and burn (sort of)

Re: New Debian user

H Neils, FYI, the Debian list has a custom of bottom posting so that a conversatio flows (see the mail list info on the web site). I've altered your reply thus: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:25:41PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > >If you look at the release notes for Etch you'll see that a test

Re: New Debian user

Etch, certainly. However, be prepared for Etch to be "obsolete" well before the next Debian release. You will most likely want to change your pointers to either "testing" or "unstable", but don't do that until you are comfortable with Debian and the apt way of package management as a user. I've be

Re: New Debian user

Thanks for reply. I'm not sure I want to repartitioning my other harddrive because I have 60 GB of music and fotos on it, so only one of them should have Debian on it. I presume it's possible to mount the media harddrive and catch my stuff from there ? My router has a fine internal firewall so h

Re: New Debian user

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to this list, works as Architectural engineer in Copenhagen > DenmarK. > > I have used several Linux distro's previously back in 1999, among them was: > Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse. > > But due to my work (Aut

Re: New Debian user

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all hi, welcome. > > Now my decision have been made I want to install Debian ! > great! > Using Debian should only be for desktop use (Gnome), mayby later > supplied with some webserver stuff. > > But I have some doubts/th

Re: New Debian installation

On Sunday 21 August 2005 12:37 pm, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:28:03AM +0200, Alex The Koala wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My old "server" machine is croaking and I'm going to get a > > replacement. Of course, Debian is getting installed here. > > > > I have been off the hardware

Re: New Debian installation

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:28:03AM +0200, Alex The Koala wrote: > Hi all, > > My old "server" machine is croaking and I'm going to get a > replacement. Of course, Debian is getting installed here. > > I have been off the hardware loop and the Debian-installing loop for > some time and I have two

Re: New Debian 3.1 Installation, GDM no keyboard no mouse

On (23/06/05 18:28), Christoph Simon wrote: > I just installed debian 3.1 and chose to setup a desktop > environment. Everything seemd to go smooth until GDM showed up and > neither the keyboard nor the mouse would work. The keyboard does work > in text mode. In case of the mouse, complains about /

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:28:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:53:06PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi Roberto, > > I read it and it seems great! Haven't had a change to build anything yet > > but I'm sure it will help me when I do. a minor typo, search for > > 'si

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I guess many people confuse pbuilder and sbuild here , two entirely > different pieces of software: > > pbuilder untars a tarball of a clean build system, copies the source > into the chroot, installs the build dependencies th

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Eep, please don't tell people to give themselves full privileges with >> sudo unless they know what they're doing. The sudo configuration here >> is just to run pbuilder, right? I

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 04:32:39AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Christoph Wegscheider [Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:37:46 +0200]: > > > "The official Debian packages are built by a buildd, also called build > > daemon, which makes use of pbuilder to ensure that every package is > ^

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today Kevin Mark poitned out[0] that I should turn a brief outline I > > gave[1] on how to customize Debian pacakges into a full blown HOWTO. I > > have done that and the result [2]

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

* Christoph Wegscheider [Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:37:46 +0200]: > "The official Debian packages are built by a buildd, also called build > daemon, which makes use of pbuilder to ensure that every package is ^^^ That bit is wrong, buildd/buildds use 'sbuild'.

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:53:06PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Roberto, > I read it and it seems great! Haven't had a change to build anything yet > but I'm sure it will help me when I do. a minor typo, search for > 'since'. As someone commented, I believe pbuilder does not clean the > chroot. fo

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read it and it seems great! Haven't had a change to build anything yet > but I'm sure it will help me when I do. a minor typo, search for > 'since'. As someone commented, I believe pbuilder does not clean the > chroot. pbuilder does always clean the chro

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today Kevin Mark poitned out[0] that I should turn a brief outline I > gave[1] on how to customize Debian pacakges into a full blown HOWTO. I > have done that and the result [2] is now available to the public. I > would like to announce it in the h

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today Kevin Mark poitned out[0] that I should turn a brief outline I > > gave[1] on how to customize Debian pacakges into a full blown HOWTO. I > > have done that and the result [2]

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:56:33PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greeting lists, > > Today Kevin Mark poitned out[0] that I should turn a brief outline I > gave[1] on how to customize Debian pacakges into a full blown HOWTO. I > have done that and the result [2] is now available to the publi

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would like to announce it in the hopes that new and experienced Debian > developers and users will review it and provide some feedback. After a > [2] http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr/?page=debcustomize "The official Debian packages are built by a

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:17:10PM -0500, +* A Death *+ wrote: > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing > nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... Please report problems with the new installer to debian-boot rather than debian-user. Except: > When the current

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:17:10PM -0500, +* A Death *+ wrote: > > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing > nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... no matter what i > tell grub (take in mind everytime i give it i new install path I have > to redo the whole ins

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

Incoming from +* A Death *+: > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing nothing for > me since the boot loader isnt working... no matter what i tell grub (take in > mind everytime i give it i new install path I have to redo the whole install > (bug problem I assume)) it will

Re: New Debian installer?

Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 14:05 schrieb David Palmer.: > For detailed information, you may well be better off speaking to these > people here:- http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ Yes. Thank you. Regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: New Debian installer?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:22:35AM +0100, Alexander Fitterling wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 03:41 schrieb Paul Johnson: > HI. > > Nope, that's it. That's how you get it. > What FS actually are supported? What FS's are supported by the kern

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