Debian

Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM, s. keeling <keeling(a)nucleus.com> wrote: Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb hub. Usually, it works great, but this doesn't tell me very much. What do you wizards make of it, please? Your system has a raid5 array configured as /dev/md0 con... 23 Jun 2008 23:00

Fwd: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque
Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb hub. Usually, it works great, but this doesn't tell me very much. What do you wizards make of it, please? Thanks, appreciated. :-) It's Etch, btw. ----- Forwarded message from mdadm monitoring <root(a)phreaque.nucleus.com> ----- R... 21 Jun 2008 00:33

Warning in syslog
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus type methods mean ??? Jun 20 21:44:38 debian kernel: [ 9.917343] hda: cache flushes not supported Jun 20 21:44:38 debian kernel: [ 9.919560] hda: cache flushes n... 23 Jun 2008 03:30

How to update bios to support 64-bit cpu in Debian?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 19:53, Star Liu wrote: I have a intel dual-core cpu which supports 64-bit mode, and I want to install a IA64 etch on it, so i burn the etch IA64 iso CD, but i cannot boot from it! I guess it's caused by my bios not supporting 64-bit mode, it's a ... 20 Jun 2008 21:30

Problems booting Debian on an external USB disk on a MacBook
Hi! I am trying to install Debian Lenny on my MacBook, by way of an external USB hard disk and Refit. I have followed the instructions given in http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html and succeeded in booting from the i386 net-install for Lenny Beta 2, created partitions and installed the system. ... 20 Jun 2008 17:23

How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?
Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it so I could update the BIOS to the most recent version, hoping that'd help. The bes... 23 Jun 2008 11:41

How do I find my local sub-net, to broadcast NTP
I am trying to get NTP to broadcast the time on my local subnet. I have the ntp.conf uncommented in the proper place. I put 192.168.1.255 as my sub-net but I am not sure. I have a cable modem>Linksys 4 port router>my computer. My computer's IP address is 192.168.1.100 and my router is 192.168.1.1. Gnome-ne... 20 Jun 2008 16:22

strange /etc/network/interfaces behaviour
Greetings, I recently setup a server which I had originally assigned a DHCP address from the interfaces file using the line "iface eth0 inet dhcp" .. After I had put the machine on the rack I simply changed the addressing to static and restarted the networking. This all went well for a while. Today the machine h... 21 Jun 2008 17:52

Balsa's "Gnome editor?"
I have Xfce4 runningl, and I'm trying out Balsa in it. Balsa looks for its external editor in a var described as "the Gnome editor," which, in Xfce4, is evidenctly mousepad. Far be it from I to cast aspersions (as the saying goes) on mousepad, but I would like something more exciting for my external editor. ... 24 Jun 2008 01:03

mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?
Hello, Yesterday I made the jump and put in unstable sources in sources.list in on testing machine solely to get nvidia working again in Testing (what is wrong with testing regarding nvidia anyway?). I have this for my policy: $> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; Acquire::::Prox... 21 Jun 2008 17:52