Debian

What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?
On Jo, 01 iul 10, 14:30:12, Stephen Powell wrote: What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed? It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from grub version 2. For example, can I just do this? if [ -f /boot/grub/menu.lst ];then blah blah blah ... 1 Jul 2010 15:34

What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?
What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed? It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from grub version 2. For example, can I just do this? if [ -f /boot/grub/menu.lst ];then blah blah blah fi Or does that file exist in grub version 2 as well? I don't ha... 1 Jul 2010 15:34

how to delay boot when waiting for usb disks?
Hi. I need to mount a usb disk during boot so that daemons writing to the disk start. The problem is that usb-storage takes time to set up block devices and it does this in the background so it depends on many factors if it makes it before mountall.sh is called. Is there some way this can be accomplished in debian ... 1 Jul 2010 16:42

F1 through F6 console screens disappeared
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:37:43 -0400 (EDT), John W Foster wrote: I have a new Debian AMD64 installed system mixed squeeze with a touch of sid (Chromium browser) I just installed the drivers & management console for my ATI Radeon 5450 video card & had to make a xorg.conf file then run aticonfig for that se... 2 Jul 2010 09:05

Xen on Squeeze won't start
Hi, We've been running Xen on Lenny for some time and it's worked great, but with a new server and some older Xen kernel issues around acpi we're trying the newer version on Squeeze. So, I did a base install of Squeeze alpha 1, then apt-get install xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 xen-tools. After adjustin... 2 Jul 2010 17:57

Burning a .iso on an USB key
Hi, I have an USB key and I would like to know how I could `burn' a .iso image on it. I remember some weird procedure using dd, but I'm not sure, and I can't find the tutorial. Evidently, assuming respective BIOS capability, the USB key should be bootable. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student... 3 Jul 2010 00:29

System can no longer boot off of crypted drive
I have a Lenovo T400 running sid. Did routine updates (I think there were almost 200 today), and was prompted to reboot to complete the installation. The system has /boot which runs on a thumb drive, an encrypted swap (sda1) and an encrypted lvm (sda2). When I rebooted, it did the chainload to grub2, then gave me ... 1 Jul 2010 09:58

Debian unstable Bug - after dist-upgrade (CUPS removed my Canon Printer drivers)
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 15:42 +0300, Satellite wrote: 2Wolodja Wentland: 1) your commands return nothing for me ( neither aptitude search "?provides(cupsys)" nor aptitude search "~Pcupsys") 2) I installed these two packages again ('gs-esp' and 'ghostscript-x') Hmmm - can't explain that right now and... 1 Jul 2010 09:58

Debian unstable Bug - after dist-upgrade (CUPS removed my Canon Printer drivers)
2Wolodja Wentland: 1) your commands return nothing for me ( neither aptitude search "?provides(cupsys)" nor aptitude search "~Pcupsys") 2) I installed these two packages again ('gs-esp' and 'ghostscript-x') Still, while trying to install official Canon drivers I get this: Selecting previously deselected p... 1 Jul 2010 09:57

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install
Hi, I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. The fact is that I've got to install Debian on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. The AMD world is totally stranger for me. I would like to know if there are (nontrivial) differences in the installat... 2 Jul 2010 03:41