Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-05 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15036ième jour après Epoch, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen écrivait: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting > this to work on debian > (squeeze)? I've exactl

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:27:50PM EST, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing > happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian > (squeeze)? I bough

RE: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: kjetil1...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb >Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:27:50 -0300 > >>I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the su

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 03/03/2011 03:27 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting > this to work on debian > (squeeze)? > > Kjetil > >

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/03/2011 03:27 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian (squeeze)? Show us what your /etc/fstab

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:27 Thu 03 Mar, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen (kjetil1...@gmail.com) wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting > this to work on debian > (squeeze)?

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
I should add that the package says it has "usb 3.0" On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:27, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting >

Re: new hard drive, reinstalling grub

2009-01-27 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:20:55 +0200, said: > whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > *created all the lvm volumes groups and partitions, > > *created ext3 filesystems on the partitions, > > *created the necessary mount points on /, mounted all the > > partitions, then cpio'd everything over fro

Re: new hard drive, reinstalling grub

2009-01-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: *created all the lvm volumes groups and partitions, *created ext3 filesystems on the partitions, *created the necessary mount points on /, mounted all the partitions, then cpio'd everything over from the old drive, *ran #grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub>

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 00:04:43 -0400, William Walter wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 13:56:21 -0400, William Walter wrote: > > The problem resurfaced again today. The same error message came up and > > Debian Etch refuse to boot up. > > I used UUID of all the hard drives. Still no luck in fixin

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-14 Thread William Walter
>On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 13:56:21 -0400, William Walter wrote: > The problem resurfaced again today. The same error message came up and > Debian Etch refuse to boot up. > I used UUID of all the hard drives. Still no luck in fixing this problem. Is > there anything else I should > do? > >>Florian Ku

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 13:56:21 -0400, William Walter wrote: > The problem resurfaced again today. The same error message came up and > Debian Etch refuse to boot up. > I used UUID of all the hard drives. Still no luck in fixing this problem. Is > there anything else I should > do? Where did you

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-12 Thread William Walter
The problem resurfaced again today. The same error message came up and Debian Etch refuse to boot up. I used UUID of all the hard drives. Still no luck in fixing this problem. Is there anything else I should do?

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-10 Thread William Walter
On 8/6/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, William Walter wrote: > > > i've a computer with debian etch. i've recently added a new sata hard > drive > > and enter the harddrive in /etc/fstab. It was working fine. Suddenly > > today Debian etch is not booting properly. I'm

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, William Walter wrote: i've a computer with debian etch. i've recently added a new sata hard drive and enter the harddrive in /etc/fstab. It was working fine. Suddenly today Debian etch is not booting properly. I'm getting the following errors: Begin:Mounting root file system

Re: new hard drive

2005-09-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Kudret Güler wrote: > Hi all, yesterday I had only one hard drive. > hda1 / #debian installation A > hda5 /home > > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as oth

Re: new hard drive (solved)

2005-09-24 Thread Kudret Güler
On 9/24/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Kudret Güler wrote: > > Hi all, yesterday I had only one hard drive. > > hda1 / #debian installation A > > hda5 /home > > > > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > >

Re: new hard drive

2005-09-24 Thread Kudret Güler
On 9/24/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kudret Güler wrote: > > > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > > grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as other > > entries. When I try to load debian insta

Re: new hard drive

2005-09-24 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Kudret Güler wrote: > Hi all, yesterday I had only one hard drive. > hda1 / #debian installation A > hda5 /home > > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as oth

Re: new hard drive

2005-09-24 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Kudret Güler wrote: > > Hi all, yesterday I had only one hard drive. > hda1 / #debian installation A > hda5 /home > > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as other > entries. When I try to load debian

Re: new hard drive

2005-09-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kudret Güler wrote: > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as other > entries. When I try to load debian installation A, currently I am > having kernel panic after an err

Re: new hard drive

2001-03-06 Thread hansen
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 05:22:59PM -0800, Ian Turner wrote: > > IIRC tar doesn't handle special files, you know, dev's, pipes, stuff > > like that. What you want is dump/restore. > > Dump/restore might yield better performance, but tar most certainly does > the job. For example: > > # cd /tmp > #

Re: new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread Ian Turner
> IIRC tar doesn't handle special files, you know, dev's, pipes, stuff > like that. What you want is dump/restore. Dump/restore might yield better performance, but tar most certainly does the job. For example: # cd /tmp # tar -cf- -C /dev hda1 | tar -xf- # ls -l hda1 brw-rw 1 root disk

Re: new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread hansen
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:58:54PM -0800, Ian Turner wrote: > > > Will there be a problem moving the OS from the 10 GB to the 40 GB? > > > I plan to increase the partition sizes of /usr/local and /home on the 40 > > > GB. > > > Any advice on how to do move the OS over? > > > > I did the same usin

Re: new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:58:54 -0800 (PST) Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did the same using the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To" at [1]. Since > the > > method described there uses "cp" it's no problem to increase the > partition > > sizes. > > You can also use tar of the form > tar -cf

Re: new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread Ian Turner
> > Will there be a problem moving the OS from the 10 GB to the 40 GB? > > I plan to increase the partition sizes of /usr/local and /home on the 40 GB. > > Any advice on how to do move the OS over? > > I did the same using the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To" at [1]. Since the > method described th

Re: new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Kevin C. Smith wrote: >... > Will there be a problem moving the OS from the 10 GB to the 40 GB? > I plan to increase the partition sizes of /usr/local and /home on the 40 GB. > Any advice on how to do move the OS over? I did the same using the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To" a

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread Brad
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > Hi > > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) > > I did almost that. Instead of res

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread charles kaufman
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is). > very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's > disk geometry settings. It

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. ^^^ > > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it'

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > What does Linux "fdisk -l" show? Here it is. The segmentation fault at the end is part of the output.(not encouraging) The disk is not all partitioned. fdisk -l The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. This is

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:> > > Check the boot= in LILO. I just recently had similar problems and it turned > out that I was writing my new lilo to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda. Thanks. I've tried each of those and get the same error either way. Chuck Kaufman

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Hi > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) I did almost that. Instead of restoring from backups I had the old and the new hard drives

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:27:59PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > > I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 > > as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux > > to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect the

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Charles Kaufman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > > copied that off the

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it's set to and > rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2to set it. This saves having to te

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks again. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > copied that off the screen, did it really say FAT 12? It look

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot fro

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hello again On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot from > > /dev/hda3?> > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I cop

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi > Thanks Brad. > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hi Thanks Brad. On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/lilo.conf is correct and > you've run lilo with the correct set

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-28 Thread Brad
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 > as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux > to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect these changes > and ran lilo; I changed fstab. I also ran mkswap.

Re: New hard drive

1999-01-15 Thread shaul
You can keep your old drive installed, and have it function as a backup device. Or am I completely missing something ? > I broke down and bought a larger hard drive for my system. My system > contains windows and a partition for Debian. I would like to copy > everything over and then remove the

Re: new hard drive mounting to /home

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:52:48AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: > > > can anyone tell me the best way to do this? > > i was thinking among the lines of: > > tar -vcf home.tar /home/ > > rm -rf /home/ > > mkdir /home > > m

Re: new hard drive mounting to /home

1998-12-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: > can anyone tell me the best way to do this? > i was thinking among the lines of: > tar -vcf home.tar /home/ > rm -rf /home/ > mkdir /home > mount /dev/hdb3 /home > tar -xvf home.tar That will work, but here's a slightly nicer w

Re: new hard drive

1998-01-27 Thread Michael Beattie
> > Yo- > > I just got a new hdd and I am having trouble with lilo. I have installed > win95 on this drive which is currently located as master on the primary > controller with the debian drive on slave. With the lilo.conf shown below > my system gets to the LILO prompt, and I can press TAB an