Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Feb 2022 at 19:28:48 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 feb 22, 11:59:59, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 07:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > How does it decide which partition to boot from? I think this is what > > > the OP is asking. > > > As far as I understand the path to se

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to another kernel > > > midway), but the Grub bootloader is kind of a mini-

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-15 Thread David Wright
With respect to the original problem, this response is moot. On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 18:50:43 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > If you want to boot A, just select it from the menu presented by B's > > grub. > > > > When you boot and run A, you can update-grub¹ and that will scan > > and see both systems, w

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 19:26:51 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > > would have its grub.cfg kept u

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 10:18:13 (+1100), David wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > TLDR: > On the topic of grub automatic configuration > 1) suggestions how to avoid it > 2) why I prefer to do that > > Disclaimer: co

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-15, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > >> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on >> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing >> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it. >

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread David
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on > whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing > you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it. > But most people will never see re

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-14 Thread David
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 07:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > How does it decide which partition to boot from? I think this is what > > the OP is asking. > As far as I understand the path to search for the second stage, modules > and grub.cfg is de

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 12:13:20 (-0500), Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described > > > is more like the > > > behavior of the Debian installer (i.e.,

Re: Booting with Grub, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 10:41:52 (-0500), Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 2/13/2022 11:23 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > This is my understanding of how grub works. > > > > > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical >

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > That's a good clarification that the active partition is a Microsoft thing > implemented by the bootcode Microsoft installs in the MBR of the device > chosen to boot from. Now for an unanswered question: What > does bootcode installed by Debi

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel)  into RAM to use temporarily for the instal

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-14 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 2/13/2022 11:23 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: This is my understanding of how grub works. It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical partition indicates that. So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI)

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the installation. I just wanted to try to correct this fo

Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 09:04:50 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > The way I understand it (but I may be misremembering), grub temporaily > boots into a, well I'll say restricted Linux kernel and OS which is used > by grub until it boots up the main system. The kernel used in grub may > not (p

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: TLDR: On the topic of grub automatic configuration 1) suggestions how to avoid it 2) why I prefer to do that Disclaimer: contains generalisations and lacks full justifications of points made. Th

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > would have its grub.cfg kept up-to-date, but would never touch the > MBR by running grub-install. Ano

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread Hans
Hi David, yes, that is what I thought, would be working. But sadly did not. I expected, after using update-grub, that os-prober would detect both partitions with the menu.lst or grub.cfg inside and create two entries in the boot menu. However, this did not work, only one (the last installation,

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > > partition indicates that. > > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI). Not necessarily. It is specified that the EFI System Partition may be marked by a MBR partition table

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 10:04:43 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding > problem, > maybe you can give some background knowledge. > > The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. > > The partitions are as followed: >

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > This is my understanding of how grub works. > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > partition indicates that. > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI). So the first > thing that > happe

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 2/12/2022 4:04 AM, Hans wrote: Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st primary

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread David Christensen
y understood how grub is working, and what it is doing. Any hints are welcome, and if this does never work at all, please drop me a line. Best regards Hans It's not a stupid question -- it's an observation of how complexity grows as the number of items grows. I have found it is bett

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 04:04:43 AM Hans wrote: > But how can I tell grub, to use the kernel of the second /boot? > > I dunno, if it is possible at all, to get a dual boot, the way I want it. > With a combination of Windows + Linux on one harddrive this is working, > however, just because g

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread harryweaver
12 Feb 2022, 19:04 by hans.ullr...@loop.de: > Dear list, > > I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding > problem, > maybe you can give some background knowledge. > > The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. > > The partitions are as follo

Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread Hans
Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st primary -> /boot 2nd > /

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: > When pvdisplay says > april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/md0 > VG Name VG1 > PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB > Allocatabl

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay >  --- Physical volume --- >  PV Name               /dev/md0 >  VG Name               VG1 >  PV Size               673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB >  Allocatable           yes >  PE Size               4.00

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:33:06 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:53:30 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> does that mean that /dev/md0 still has 59037*4.00 = 236148 mebibytes >>> of free space left to be allocated to logical volumes? >> >> Mmm... I've been reading the man page for

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:53:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: >> >> When pvdisplay says >> >> april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay >> --- Physical volume --- >> PV Name

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: > > When pvdisplay says > > april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/md0 > VG Name VG1 > PV Size

stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name VG1 PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable yes

Re: stupid question

2010-05-13 Thread steef
godo schreef: On 05/13/2010 08:37 AM, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the proto

Re: stupid question

2010-05-13 Thread godo
On 05/13/2010 08:37 AM, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol to go on in

Re: stupid question

2010-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,13.May.10, 08:37:31, steef wrote: > > hi list, > > how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) > maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on > the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this > message and i do not know the prot

Re: stupid question

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/13/2010 1:37 AM, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol to go on in t

Re: stupid question

2010-05-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello ! just enter `q' ! hth, Jerome On 13/05/10 14:37, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i d

stupid question

2010-05-12 Thread steef
hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol to go on in this situation (if there is any).

Re: ip route weight stupid question

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:34:50AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: > > Does a higher weight mean that the route will be used more or used less ? > [snip] > > Furthermore, if you really want to do this, you probably also want to look

Re: ip route weight stupid question

2008-04-08 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: > Does a higher weight mean that the route will be used more or used less ? Citation from Linkname: Re: Loadbalancing the gat: msg#00055 URL: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:1Q2CWWmtUJAJ:osdir.com/ml/linux.network.routin

Re: ip route weight stupid question

2008-04-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: > Hello, > SO I have scoured the internet, the man pages, groups. I just cant find > a definitive answer. > > > weight NUMBER - is a weight for this element of a multi- > path route reflecting its relative bandwidth or quality. >

ip route weight stupid question

2008-04-08 Thread Stuart Gall
Hello, SO I have scoured the internet, the man pages, groups. I just cant find a definitive answer. weight NUMBER - is a weight for this element of a multi- path route reflecting its relative bandwidth or quality. So more weight = better quality = preferred e.g. ip route add defau

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)ht

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)ht

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/27/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started using Linux with FC2 (or FC3 maybe) and was just thrilled with it > (with Linux, really). Then I got annoyed with FC's bleeding edge software and > also decided that I shouldn't have to reinstall every 6 months in order to > stay > c

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007.09.26 12:52, Mike McCarty wrote: > Fedora I would not recommend to anyone not interested in > eternally fiddling with the machine, broken interfaces, > and churn. It's for people whose hobbies include fiddling > with new installs and reloading. > > I'm not into that, either, for these

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)ht

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: I know how to do the necessary admin with FC. Debian I'm much less capable with. I wouldn't call FC "turnkey". But it uses a completely different set of admin tools. Why did you push Debian on her, when your expertise lies in FC? "Push" is a four letter word :-) I got her

Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 11:58, Mike McCarty wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> >>> Ok, so how does one get a newer kernel, install it, and get >>> all the memory available? >>> >> >> >> That question indicat

Re: Kernel modules stupid question (solved)

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148299046 past the epoch, Marco wrote: > klatt-st ha scritto: > >have a look at /sys/module/*/parameters. Thanks for that, very informative... -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148251289 past the epoch, Leon wrote: > Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > with "lsmod" I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in > > order to see what options they were loaded with? Take a look through /proc/modules. Is the information you want present there? -- Jon Dowland

Re: Kernel modules stupid question (solved)

2006-05-22 Thread Marco
klatt-st ha scritto: -+--+-in reply to: subj: Kernel modules stupid question [0.4K/0L] from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (To debian-user@lists.debian.org) date: 21May2006 @ 22:32 (141th doy|1148247145 sse) -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--> hi Marco, have a look at /sys/mod

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

2006-05-22 Thread Marco
Leon ha scritto: Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi everybody, with "lsmod" I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order to see what options they were loaded with? Maybe `modinfo'? Hi Leon, I have tried with modinfo, but I don't see what I want to see :-( Any idea

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

2006-05-21 Thread Leon
Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, > with "lsmod" I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order > to see what options they were loaded with? > Maybe `modinfo'? -- Leon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Kernel modules stupid question

2006-05-21 Thread Marco
Hi everybody, with "lsmod" I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order to see what options they were loaded with? Ex. modprobe ipw2200 led=1 lsmod --> ipw2200 I would like to see: modprobe ipw2200 led=1 "command" --> ipw2200 led=1 Thanks a lot... Bye Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Really stupid question about apt unsubscribe

2006-03-23 Thread John Hasler
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2006-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
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2006-03-22 Thread John Galatti
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Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-22 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 6:16 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yes, but it's easier just to look for the version you have on > snapshot.debian.net Well this version was never an official packaged version. Some nice gentlemen suggested dpkg-repack and it worked a treat. Thanks for the help -- Matter ca

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-22 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 6:42 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:13, Brad Sims wrote: > > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > > Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing instal

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:13:59 -0600, Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). I have at some > point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. Is there someway of > re-creating that deb from the existing installed version? > I presume I am most likely

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:13, Brad Sims wrote: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed > version? > > I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:13, Brad Sims wrote: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed > version? > > I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I

Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Brad Sims
I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed version? I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I would ask. -- Remember: Every time a criminal gets his sku

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Andy, Am 2006-02-19 20:49:16, schrieb Andy Anderson: > Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this > except me... > > I have a server with some disk space shared using > Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. > When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their > home sh

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-24 Thread Welly Hartanto
mslinuz wrote: Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Ea

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-24 Thread mslinuz
>Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Andy Anderson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Ea

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-23 Thread mslinuz
Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-22 Thread mslinuz
Opus wrote: > mslinuz wrote: > >> I'm sorry if I misunderstand, but after reading your mail, I have 2 >> assumtions: > > > Your assumptions are correct. Actually, I have only Debian users, > and they all use gnome/gdm, so your #1 solution is the one that > I'm interested in. > >> 1. Users use deb

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-22 Thread Opus
mslinuz wrote: I'm sorry if I misunderstand, but after reading your mail, I have 2 assumtions: Your assumptions are correct. Actually, I have only Debian users, and they all use gnome/gdm, so your #1 solution is the one that I'm interested in. 1. Users use debian with gnome/gdm in the diffe

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Porter
Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one > of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? If you want maximum data security, you might want to

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-19 Thread mslinuz
Andy Anderson wrote: > Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this > except me... > > I have a server with some disk space shared using > Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. > When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their > home share on the Samba server to be automatic

Really stupid question...

2006-02-19 Thread Andy Anderson
Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their home share on the Samba server to be automatically mounted, and then unmounted w

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-18 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 17 February 2006 16:38, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of > above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? > ReiserFS and XFS

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. >I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. > Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? > Yes, you can use any partition type you want. B

File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-17 Thread Wodzu Wodzowski
I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? Oglądaj Puchar Jedynki 18 l

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 26 May 2005, SA wrote: You know what they say, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers ;-) Anyway, First thing, I wouldn't count on the release date of sarge, on the other its rather stable at the moment. As for releases, when its not near its release date (as sarge IS for a

Re: Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

2005-05-26 Thread SA
Well this could explain one of the problems but not the majority: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerFAQ Question 22: Why isn't my NIC supported by DebianInstaller, I know the "tg3" driver supports it! Answer: As tg3 contains firmware which does not seem to meet the requirements

Re: Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

2005-05-26 Thread SA
No I haven't sent this to anyone else (actually just forwarded to debian-boot). This is the first time I have used debian for 3 years (previously only once before on an old alpha). Despite many years unix experience I haven't got the foggest idea what is going on here or if this is in fact a

Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:05:18PM +0100, SA wrote: > > Pissing around with the "expert" mode of install leads me to belive that some > (possibly all) the network modules are missing from the installer as well as > some other modules. In an attempt to get around this I installed another > netw

Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread SA
exotic to make it onto the CD (seems unlikely) or is there a problem with the installer (in which case what do I do?), Cheers, SA On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:30, SA wrote: > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: Re: Probably a stupid question but... > Date: T

Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread SA
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Probably a stupid question but... Date: Thursday 26 May 2005 18:20 From: SA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I downloaded the netinst image, put it on a CD and booted my machine with it -

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Certainly a stupid Subject: line (sorry :P) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/26/05, SA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List, > > > I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I > can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these > but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a >

Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread SA
Dear List, I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a little confused: Since sarge is due out at the end of

Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

2002-12-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I downloaded the 2.4.20 source from ftp.debian.org, uncompressed it, > un-tarred it. Then I downloaded patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 from the same > site, and tried: > > patch -p1 < patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 > > at the top of the /usr/src/l

Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

2002-12-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I want/need to compile one of the Alan Cox variants of the 2.4.20 > kernel (it apparently has better support for the particular Asus > motherboard that I have). I've routinely hand-compiled kernels for > some years, but I've never

Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

2002-12-22 Thread Jim McCloskey
I want/need to compile one of the Alan Cox variants of the 2.4.20 kernel (it apparently has better support for the particular Asus motherboard that I have). I've routinely hand-compiled kernels for some years, but I've never tried any of the non-standard kernel branches before. I downloaded the 2

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > to be specific: > > portmap > lockd > mountd > rquotad > statd Yes, and all of them are in the packages I mentioned earlier, with the exception of rquotad, which is in the quota package. I'm not terribly familiar with the packag

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread timothy bauscher
to be specific: portmap lockd mountd rquotad statd // timothy -- On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, > the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an > option during the i

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, > the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an > option during the installation? i understand > that some people may not want these daemons > running, but it shou

probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread timothy bauscher
out debian using rc?.d, but still need further assistance. and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an option during the installation? i understand that some people may not want these daemons running, but it should be offered during the installation j

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can > find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I > suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for > such a si

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

2001-09-10 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can > find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I > suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for > such a si

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

2001-09-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 15:31:22 -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not > the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? Yes. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- de

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

2001-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can > find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I > suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for > such a silly question, but I'

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

2001-09-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can > find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I > suppose it should be done through the editor? You are correct. Mutt just takes wha

A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

2001-09-10 Thread Steve Gran
Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for such a silly question, but I've mostly been using Balsa up till now, and only

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