| smile | How do I see what's causing Error: "Unsupported operation" while copying "/etc/xen/auto/sql". Would you like to continue?" | 01:48 |
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| amirman | well it's been a big pain in the butt and i've gotten nowhere | 04:51 |
| LaserJock | amirman: ? | 04:52 |
| Burgundavia | LaserJock: are you not supposed to be finishing your PHD? | 04:53 |
| LaserJock | Burgundavia: umm, yeah | 04:54 |
| Burgundavia | indeed | 04:54 |
| amirman | its confusing | 04:55 |
| Burgundavia | amirman: what is confusing? | 04:55 |
| amirman | i dont have a linux boot disk right now because the only computer i have with a cdrom drive and a floppy drive is the one i'm trying to install an OS on | 04:55 |
| amirman | so i've been using a win95 bootdisk that i had here because it loads the drivers for my cdrom drive and it gets my hard drive to work | 04:56 |
| amirman | but when i try to format the harddisk it wont do it | 04:56 |
| amirman | when i try to install the smart boot manager to a floppy to make a boot disk i cant do it because the command.com file thats needed to copy the files is on the disk in the drive that i need to copy to | 04:57 |
| amirman | its complicated as hell | 04:57 |
| amirman | i have no idea what to do | 04:57 |
| Bambi_BOFH | why are you trying to do anything with ubuntu and a dos boot floppy? | 04:57 |
| amirman | when i set the BIOS to boot to the cdrom drive it wont read it but the win95 boot disk sees it | 04:58 |
| amirman | and when i try to run some programs it says theres not enough memory to run it | 04:58 |
| Bambi_BOFH | are you saying sbm doesnt start? | 05:00 |
| amirman | i cant even make an sbm disk | 05:01 |
| Bambi_BOFH | why cant you make one? | 05:01 |
| amirman | because the command.com file which is needed to copy files from the cd to the floppy drive is on the floppy drive | 05:02 |
| Bambi_BOFH | not sure i follow... why do you need command.com to make an sbm floppy | 05:02 |
| amirman | i haven't tried installing the sbm to the hard drive yet though | 05:03 |
| amirman | i'm going to try it i'll be right back | 05:03 |
| amirman | i dont know why i need it | 05:03 |
| amirman | but it says i do | 05:03 |
| Bambi_BOFH | you dont install sbm (well, not in my experiance) | 05:03 |
| Bambi_BOFH | you image it onto a floppy disc | 05:03 |
| Bambi_BOFH | what instructiosn have you been following? | 05:03 |
| amirman | if i change disks it asks to be directed to command.com and i can't exit out of it all i can do is restart | 05:03 |
| amirman | well the instructions i read talked about images but when i went to the sourceforge page to get the latest versions image all that was there was a self extracting exe | 05:04 |
| amirman | sbminst.exe | 05:04 |
| Bambi_BOFH | isnt sbm still on the ubuntu cd? | 05:05 |
| Bambi_BOFH | before i continue - whats the specification of the system your trying to intall on by the way, it sounds... old | 05:06 |
| amirman | it is very old | 05:12 |
| amirman | 256 mb ram 400 mhz processor | 05:12 |
| amirman | 80 gb | 05:12 |
| amirman | i installed sbm to the harddrive, but now i have to figure out what i'm doing in there | 05:13 |
| Bambi_BOFH | cpu is a bit slow, but thats an ok system. | 05:14 |
| LaserJock | amirman: what CD did you download? | 05:15 |
| amirman | i have the edubuntu server cd | 05:17 |
| amirman | and the addon | 05:17 |
| amirman | which selection should i choose | 05:17 |
| amirman | the regular install or a workstation | 05:17 |
| amirman | probably a workstation right? | 05:17 |
| LaserJock | workstation | 05:17 |
| amirman | the cpu is slow but i was advised that i could install a lighter window manager or something like that | 05:18 |
| amirman | i've run into trouble detecting a network interface | 05:22 |
| amirman | hopefully i wont need it | 05:23 |
| Bambi_BOFH | what chipset is the nic? | 05:23 |
| amirman | i don't know what that means | 05:24 |
| amirman | <----newbie | 05:24 |
| Bambi_BOFH | nm | 05:24 |
| amirman | :( | 05:24 |
| amirman | nic=network interface card? | 05:25 |
| Bambi_BOFH | yeah :) | 05:25 |
| amirman | well it's an airlink and it's wireless | 05:25 |
| amirman | thats all i know about it | 05:25 |
| amirman | i told it that my system clock is not set to UTC | 05:28 |
| amirman | because my bios thinks is 1980 sometimes and 1999 sometimes | 05:29 |
| amirman | was that the right thing to do? | 05:29 |
| amirman | when i was in sbm i used the thing thats supposed to fix the bios date but when i started installing it said something about how my bios was set at 1999 | 05:29 |
| amirman | this is installing a lot faster than i expected it to | 05:30 |
| Bambi_BOFH | if your not dual booting set to UTC | 05:35 |
| Bambi_BOFH | it probably reverts to 1980 if your cmos battery goes flat | 05:35 |
| amirman | "debootstrap warning" | 05:35 |
| amirman | failure while installing base packages | 05:36 |
| amirman | i attempted it 5 times then skipped it | 05:37 |
| amirman | ooooh errors | 05:37 |
| Bambi_BOFH | yeah, debootstrap errors=bad | 05:37 |
| amirman | black stripes going up and down the screen behind the stripes there is a white box with some black squares on it and a red square at the bottom | 05:38 |
| amirman | and a blue background | 05:38 |
| amirman | now i cant read anything | 05:38 |
| amirman | i started at the first step of the installation and i'm just going to keep pressing enter | 05:39 |
| amirman | hmm looks like i'm just going to have to install freeDOS | 05:40 |
| amirman | if it works | 05:40 |
| amirman | hah :) | 05:40 |
| amirman | :( | 05:42 |
| amirman | what's acpi? | 05:43 |
| Bambi_BOFH | :( | 05:43 |
| Bambi_BOFH | advanced control and power interface | 05:43 |
| amirman | well something came up about it being forced or something because the year on the bios was before 2000 | 05:45 |
| amirman | very confusing | 05:45 |
| amirman | i'm retrying the installation | 05:45 |
| Bambi_BOFH | i've seen that message before, dont remember the details | 05:46 |
| amirman | whats the debbootstrap stuff all about? | 05:46 |
| Bambi_BOFH | its the tool the installer uses to setup the OS | 05:49 |
| amirman | also which partitioning method should i choose? i chose "guided - use entire disk" last time, and what is LVM? | 05:49 |
| Bambi_BOFH | guided is fine. | 05:49 |
| Bambi_BOFH | !lvm | 05:49 |
| ubotu | Tips and tricks for RAID and LVM can be found on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RaidConfigurationHowto and http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO | 05:49 |
| Bambi_BOFH | not for beiners, imo ;) | 05:50 |
| amirman | logical volume management.... is that like a drive where you can resize the partitions whenever you want? | 05:52 |
| amirman | just a guess | 05:53 |
| Bambi_BOFH | yep | 05:53 |
| amirman | cool | 05:53 |
| amirman | i'm picking the same one | 05:55 |
| amirman | use entire disk | 05:55 |
| amirman | i wish i could make the swap partition bigger | 05:55 |
| amirman | i have a feeling the installation is messing up because the ram and swap partition are overloaded | 05:56 |
| amirman | i would be willing to dedicate about 10 gigs to the swap haha | 05:56 |
| amirman | does anybody in here know a very lightwieght linux distro or any OS i could use that is kid-friendly (if i can't get edubuntu installed of course) | 06:02 |
| * Bambi_BOFH shrugs. dont have much experiance | 06:04 | |
| Bambi_BOFH | in that area | 06:04 |
| amirman | this is totally failing here | 06:04 |
| amirman | its asking me if i want to continue without installing a kernel | 06:07 |
| amirman | it says i could end up with a machine that doesnt boot | 06:08 |
| amirman | that sounds really bad | 06:08 |
| amirman | unless they just mean the hard disk doesnt boot because i've been dealing with that already | 06:08 |
| Bambi_BOFH | no, it wont boot at all | 06:09 |
| Bambi_BOFH | sorry i cant help much - im at work ;| | 06:09 |
| amirman | understandable | 06:10 |
| mcdeaglesandwhic | YY | 06:17 |
| * Netham45 is off to bed | 07:48 | |
| Nubae | hi there... I-m trying to debug local device support on ubuntu gutsy... | 10:41 |
| Nubae | Im following the document scott belnaeves (sp) wrote and get to the last step where it says to manually try mounting the device in question in this case a usb thumbdrive | 10:42 |
| Nubae | I get X connection to localhost:10.0 broken | 10:43 |
| Nubae | explicit kill or server shutdown | 10:43 |
| Nubae | then /tmp/.sysadmin-ltspfs/tmp is not mounted | 10:45 |
| Nubae | anyone... | 10:46 |
| Nubae | ok, I tried that from the alt cntrl f1 but obviously it needs to be done from the thin terminal itself | 10:56 |
| Nubae | so I did that | 10:56 |
| Nubae | and still get /tmp/.sysadmin-ltspfs/tmp is not mounted, even though that directory exists | 10:57 |
| Nubae | and I can see a directory for the usb stick too | 10:57 |
| bazz | Ogra_cmpc you there? | 14:23 |
| nubae | is sbalneaves around? | 14:24 |
| bddebian | Heya | 14:54 |
| groovedreamer | hi everyone | 15:46 |
| groovedreamer | i have a question | 15:47 |
| groovedreamer | i am afraid of lack of space on my hdd | 15:47 |
| groovedreamer | only 3.2 GB | 15:47 |
| groovedreamer | if I connect another one does edubuntu know to write on this additional? | 15:47 |
| groovedreamer | should I be afraid of system crash when there will be lack of phisical memory on hdd? | 15:52 |
| musashi | i'm trying to figure out why flash drives are not working. I found this comment "One of the most common reasons for USB storage devices not to work is the user needs to be in the fuse group." how can i make sure that all users get added to this? our users log in with active directory authentication. (v7.04) | 15:57 |
| musashi | i'm trying to figure out why flash drives are not working. I found this comment "One of the most common reasons for USB storage devices not to work is the user needs to be in the fuse group." how can i make sure that all users get added to this? our users log in with active directory authentication. (v7.04) | 17:16 |
| scrapbunny | so i check marked the prerelease updates on my edubuntu server and now have xfce instead of gnome. should xfce run better on thin clients then gnome? | 18:06 |
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| groovedreamer | there an error occurs during download | 18:41 |
| groovedreamer | something with pci | 18:41 |
| groovedreamer | how can I do bootload clean? | 18:41 |
| groovedreamer | so quiet here | 18:44 |
| bazz | So anyone awake in here? | 19:51 |
| RichEd | ping highvoltage | 19:57 |
| bazz | hello out there? | 20:16 |
| RichEd | 'lo bazz | 20:17 |
| bazz | ahh there is life out there.... | 20:17 |
| bazz | Doesnt seem to be to much action in here | 20:18 |
| bazz | most people in here developers? users? | 20:19 |
| Kamping_Kaiser | bazz, bit of both | 21:02 |
| ogra | bazz, we had our semi annual developer conference last week and this week we have the canonical company get together ... so everyone is travelling or recovering from jetlag | 21:05 |
| bazz | I bet its fun..... | 21:10 |
| bazz | Well I think I would think its fun | 21:11 |
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