Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: Hi -- > > The instructions I used don't seem to have that requirement -- you just > need "dd", which Macs can do, I think. > > According to my (slightly dated, and possibly fragmentary) notes, > I got "boot.img.gz" from: > >

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
> This just got harder. > I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. > And the installation media can only be a USB drive. > > I am having all kinds of trouble getting an ISO image onto the USB that > will work. > > I can 'cat debian.iso > /dev/disk1s1' well enough.

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Tom Allison
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Tom Allison wrote: > > > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Tom Allison wrote: >> >> This just got harder. >>> I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. >>> And the installat

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Tom Allison
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Tom Allison wrote: > > This just got harder. >> I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. >> And the installation media can only be a USB drive. >> >> I am having all kinds of

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Tom Allison wrote: This just got harder. > I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. > And the installation media can only be a USB drive. > > I am having all kinds of trouble getting an ISO image onto the USB that > will work. > >

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Tom Allison
This just got harder. I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. And the installation media can only be a USB drive. I am having all kinds of trouble getting an ISO image onto the USB that will work. I can 'cat debian.iso > /dev/disk1s1' well enough. And the machine

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Tom, On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:43:22PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks > like 2 years and 3 months. > > And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to > those later. Right now I am not sure where all my

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 May 2011 12:43:22 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks > like 2 years and 3 months. > > And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to > those later. Right now I am not sure where all my sources are or

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread teddieeb
Tom Allison ask: I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks like 2 years and 3 months. And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to those later. Right now I am not sure where all my sources are or should be. ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ has probl

Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Tom Allison
I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks like 2 years and 3 months. And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to those later. Right now I am not sure where all my sources are or should be. ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ has problems somewhere w