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problem installing grub-legacy
hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. Comment? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xp... 29 Mar 2010 16:57

Lenny in less than 2 GB of drive space?
On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-26 12:45, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing duty as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only mass storage. Works a treat. What's the package list? I'm n... 27 Mar 2010 21:04

acroread packages obsoleted
Hi, The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages (from debian-multimedia) are now obsolete, which contain, acroread, acroread-data, acroread-escript and acroread-plugins $ apt-cache policy acroread acroread: Installed: 9.1.0-0.4 Candidate: 9.1.0-0.4 Version table: *** 9.1... 27 Mar 2010 18:50

touchpad problem on Sony Vaio VGN-NR498E
Hello, Debian Squeeze, notebook Sony Vaio VGN-NR498E $ uname -a Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Touchpad information: $ egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps' /proc/bus/input/devices N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" Tapping doesn't work (only on touchpad buttons). Scrollin... 27 Mar 2010 14:16

mpd
Trying to conserve memory, I'm want run mpd (the Music Player Daemon) from inetd, on Lenny. So far, I've added mpd 6600/tcp # music player daemon to /etc/services, and I thought mpd stream tcp nowait mpd.audio /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf or maybe mpd stream tcp nowait mpd /usr/... 27 Mar 2010 16:32

ad blocking squid
I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the net, they shouldn't see any ads] Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! - router isn't running openwrt, etc.] Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de... 29 Mar 2010 16:57

NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error [SOLVED]
On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox: I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact user to the plugdev group on the local machine worked as far as ... 27 Mar 2010 09:35

handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager
Hi all, ivman ? automount ? I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and over I'd like a way to make sure that the same device gets mapped to the same thing. Not needing X to be up and running is nice too. teh google reveals the ab... 1 Apr 2010 10:08

Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition (private question)
>> 2) echo "1" /sys/block/sr0/device/delete should have been echo "1" >/sys/block/sr0/device/delete with apologies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6d4219cc1... 27 Mar 2010 01:10

installation failure
Than you for the advice. I will start over the installation. greetings, Alexander _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969... 26 Mar 2010 15:35