Debian

Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.
Stephen Powell <zlinuxman(a)wowway.com> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:33:25 -0500 (EST) wrote, ... install lilo ... How does this sound? * Boot from the Lenny installer CD and go into rescue mode. * In the page entitled "Rescue operations" do "Execute a shell in /dev/hda1". (The system on /dev/hda1 is Squeeze as d... 2 Feb 2010 22:01

2.6.32-trunk + Hardware failure.
The Story: I did a new installation of Squeeze on a Compaq Presario V3019US using kernel 2.6.30, then it came an upgrade to 2.6.32-trunk; after that my wireless a PCI Express Minicard 802.11B/G HS - Broadcom 4311BG suddenly died. The OS gave me a message related to eec or ecc before it happen, and now i have a scr... 2 Feb 2010 23:37

suid, www-data user, and gui program amarok, not working together.
I'm trying to make a web page that has buttons to control my running music player application "Amarok" (Amarok is a Debian package). I can control it from the command line by issuing this command: $ amarok -t That command toggles the music on and off. I run Apache2 on Debian Lenny and the command gets run as... 2 Feb 2010 22:01

abcde and flac cue sheets
I've got a problem with abcde. I'm trying to rip a whole CD to a flac file with embedded cue sheet, and this is what happens: flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it unde... 2 Feb 2010 15:56

LVM snapshots are not backups (was: Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?)
In <20100202135559.GA5883(a)ra.ncl.ac.uk>, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Rafał Radecki wrote: I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something like LVM snapshots for backups. Just to pick up on this point, I would suggest that LVM on its own is not an a... 2 Feb 2010 15:55

auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)
Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck programs for different filesystem types give different error codes. What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automatically mount specific devices if they are present, but not cause... 5 Feb 2010 21:46

Mplayer - can it play audio cd's......... solved....
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:47:42 -0500 Celejar <celejar(a)gmail.com> shared this with us all: I've never done this, but it looks like 'track' ought to be an integer. What happens when you try $ mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/media/cdrom1 cdda://1 Celejar Thank you Celejar, It appears that mplayer can't mou... 2 Feb 2010 15:55

wicd fails to start after upgrade **Correction**
Wayne <linuxtwo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sebastian Glad you got it going!!! I just finished setting up another testing box with wireless, an old Netgear WPN311 pci card. Using the madwifi ath5k modules. I installed wicd 1.7.0-2 and, after fixing some of my usual typo's, it is running as go... 2 Feb 2010 15:55

Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation
> Jeffrey, Don't know if there's automatic way. But one way you can try is to write a script to remove those sections whose "Status" is not "installed" in the file /var/lib/dpkg/status. I thought about that but I wondering if APT package management has some in-built way to do it automatically. T... 2 Feb 2010 15:54

Grub2 in current Squeeze
Squeeze on an IBM NetVista here, was updated about 2010-01-27 via a remote connection.  Nothing remarkable about the update.  Sunday morning I arrived to find the machine rebooting repeatedly.  The console shows   BIOS Installed Successfully!   Grub loading.   Welcome to GRUB! Then the screen goes black and t... 2 Feb 2010 15:54