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| knoppix | hi, how do i connect from kde to a smb server (gnome user here) , the smb server is on my subnet | 00:25 |
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| knome | knoppix, ask #kubuntu | 00:26 |
| knoppix | home, oops sorr | 00:27 |
| knoppix | sorry | 00:27 |
| ron_o | might have found a bug in 8.04 | 00:53 |
| ron_o | keyboard shortcuts. I add the keyboard shortcut, say 'xkill' .. then it asks me for the shortcut and won't let me place it anywhere. | 00:54 |
| ron_o | nevermind. you have to type the keys on the keyboard. just weird. | 00:55 |
| McCallister | Hey guys. | 01:18 |
| McCallister | I lost my panel. | 01:19 |
| McCallister | hello dsmith | 01:22 |
| phix | hi McCallister | 01:29 |
| phix | how are you? | 01:29 |
| McCallister | I'm alright. | 01:30 |
| McCallister | I lost my panel. | 01:31 |
| McCallister | Not sure how to restart it. | 01:31 |
| McCallister | xfce4 | 01:32 |
| knome | McCallister, alt+f2 > xfce4-panel | 01:32 |
| Recursiv3 | How do I enable SHMConfig in Xubuntu 8.10? The xorg.conf file is not working. | 01:34 |
| McCallister | I'm not sure. | 01:50 |
| phix | McCallister: :( | 01:52 |
| Kudi | how do i get conky to show my ip address? What did i do wrong?: IP - ${color white}${addr interface} | 01:56 |
| McCallister | That's it!! | 01:58 |
| McCallister | Got it. Thanks a bunch | 01:58 |
| Recursiv3 | How do I edit my touchpad settings in Intrepid Ibex? | 02:01 |
| Recursiv3 | I can't use GSynaptics because I can't enable SHMConfig | 02:02 |
| McCallister | I'm not sure. | 02:04 |
| McCallister | What type of laptop? | 02:04 |
| Recursiv3 | eeePC | 02:08 |
| McCallister | Are there any posts about it on the forums? | 02:09 |
| Recursiv3 | Yes. They don't seem to work. | 02:09 |
| Recursiv3 | I just need some way to turn tapping off. | 02:10 |
| McCallister | That would get annoying. | 02:11 |
| McCallister | What operating system came installed? | 02:12 |
| Recursiv3 | A version of Xandros. | 02:13 |
| Recursiv3 | It was really dumbed down; I needed a real OS. | 02:13 |
| ball | CP/M-80 ftw | 02:14 |
| ball | Speaking of "dumbed down", I think Mrs. ball's next PC will have MS Windows Vista Home Basic | 02:15 |
| Recursiv3 | God damn it. | 02:16 |
| ball | What's wrong? | 02:16 |
| Recursiv3 | I've been trying for at least a week to get tapping disabled. | 02:16 |
| Recursiv3 | This damn computer. | 02:17 |
| ball | On a trackpad? | 02:17 |
| Recursiv3 | YEs. | 02:17 |
| ball | Yeah, that would be annoying. | 02:17 |
| ball | s/would/could/ | 02:17 |
| ball | Is it a CMOS setting? | 02:17 |
| Recursiv3 | No, you are supposed to be able to use gsynaptics, but it doesn't work on Intrepid. | 02:17 |
| ball | So there's no CMOS setting to disable it? | 02:18 |
| Recursiv3 | I will check, I am almost certain not. | 02:18 |
| ball | Definitely worth checking. If the firmware's passing "clicks" to the OS, there's nothing gsynaptics (or whatever) will be able to do about it. | 02:19 |
| Recursiv3 | No, no option. | 02:19 |
| ball | hello effie_jayx | 02:19 |
| ball | Recursiv3: that's odd. | 02:19 |
| effie_jayx | hello ball | 02:19 |
| Recursiv3 | I have not been able to get any touchpad configuration stuff running. | 02:20 |
| ball | Are you running some sort of touchpad driver, or just generic mouse? | 02:21 |
| Recursiv3 | IDK. | 02:21 |
| Recursiv3 | I think there is some sort of driver installed. | 02:21 |
| ball | I'm inclined to blame the firmware, but then I'm always inclined to blame the firmware. | 02:21 |
| ball | ...because /so/ much firmware is broken, or at best poorly-written | 02:22 |
| Kudi | how do i make the volume applet control pcm instead of master? | 02:34 |
| ball | hello Kudi | 02:36 |
| Kudi | ball: hi | 02:38 |
| Kudi | ball: what are u bored or something? | 02:39 |
| Recursiv3 | Some sites say that I can use xinput to configure the touchpad. | 02:40 |
| Kudi | Recursiv3: if your talking to me i have no idea what your talking about but if you are i can google | 02:41 |
| Recursiv3 | I'm just saying it to anyone who will listen. | 02:42 |
| Recursiv3 | Can anyone tell me what command I would use to disable the tapping using xinput? | 02:42 |
| Kudi | ohh...i dont think any1 is answering questions here, there probably all out for tea | 02:43 |
| ball | Recursiv3: I reckon you're barking up the wrong tree. | 02:43 |
| ball | Kudi: depends on the question | 02:43 |
| Recursiv3 | ball, what do you mean? | 02:44 |
| ball | Recursiv3: Well, I've an idea, but I don't know enough about Xubuntu to know how to test it. | 02:45 |
| Recursiv3 | Tell me your idea and I can test it. | 02:45 |
| Kudi | ball: ha, what are u trying to say.. | 02:45 |
| ball | Recursiv3: There may be a way in Xubuntu (or in X, specifically) to see what events the firmware is sending to your X server. | 02:46 |
| ball | That could tell you whether your firmware is at fault. | 02:46 |
| Recursiv3 | I don't think the firmware is at fault. | 02:47 |
| ball | Why do you think that? | 02:48 |
| Recursiv3 | The OS that was previously installed was able to have tap-to-click disabled. | 02:48 |
| ball | Hmm... ok | 02:48 |
| ball | Well that supports your thought. | 02:48 |
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| D-MAN | DOES ANYONE KNOW WERE TO GET AN EASY TO USE INVOICE TEMPLATE? | 03:38 |
| D-MAN | sry caps | 03:38 |
| izinucs | OO should have one either built in or downloadable. | 03:38 |
| D-MAN | izinucs, tried downloading on for oo but cant edit it it says read only? | 03:39 |
| izinucs | D-MAN, once open in oo save it again with a new name | 03:40 |
| D-MAN | kk let me try that | 03:40 |
| D-MAN | IZ IT WORKED BOY DO I FEEL DUMB!!!!! | 03:43 |
| D-MAN | izinucs, thnx | 03:44 |
| izinucs | np.. :) | 03:44 |
| D-MAN | my printer keeps cutting off the right side of page in oo spreadsheeet how can i fix this? | 05:04 |
| R1cochet | is there any way to view printer ink levels? | 05:51 |
| crawlthewarriork | does anyone perhaps know why when I update packages or use apt-get to dl software, it goes really slow (download speed) but on the internet (firefox) I can download really fast? | 06:01 |
| crawlthewarriork | anyone? | 06:05 |
| cody-somerville | crawlthewarriork, try a different mirror | 06:06 |
| crawlthewarriork | how do you do that using apt-get or update manager? | 06:07 |
| crimsun | cody-somerville: do you know if Xubuntu 9.04 will use PulseAudio? | 06:09 |
| crimsun | cody-somerville: ok, well, if you happen to know, find me during lunch tomorrow | 06:19 |
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| bebop_ | anyone available to help with a issue? | 08:59 |
| generalsnus | We have a problem with our thin clients, It seems like each user has 2 instances of the process "ps" running.. using 2% cpu each.. as you imagine..this is a problem when there is 30 users logged on.. cpu load is at 90-100% what can i do? | 09:04 |
| generalsnus | We have a problem with our LTSP clients.. each user have x2 instances of the process "ps" its eating all cpu. What could be wrong? pstree: http://paste2.org/p/113585 | 09:26 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: it's being called by some python script... | 09:33 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: maybe try 'ps auxwww' to see the full command that started it | 09:34 |
| generalsnus | http://paste2.org/p/113591 is the output of "ps auxwww|grep python " | 09:44 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: what's /usr/bin/scp-client ? | 09:45 |
| TheSheep | hmm... it's part of thin-client-manager-backend | 09:46 |
| TheSheep | whatever it is | 09:47 |
| TheSheep | I see it's placed in autostarted applications | 09:47 |
| generalsnus | isnt it somthing i would need to have autostarted? | 09:48 |
| TheSheep | no idea | 09:50 |
| TheSheep | you can file a bug for it | 09:50 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: that script is strange | 09:52 |
| TheSheep | looks like it's written by a java programmer who never saw python before | 09:52 |
| generalsnus | here is the script tho: http://paste2.org/p/113596 | 09:52 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: yes, I downloaded it from packages.ubuntu.com | 09:53 |
| generalsnus | ah | 09:53 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: it should run the 'perent poller' function every 10 seconds | 09:54 |
| TheSheep | parent_poller | 09:54 |
| TheSheep | it then forks a shell running ps and grep just to see if its parent process is still running | 09:56 |
| TheSheep | madness | 09:56 |
| generalsnus | hm.. we tried to killall python, just to get the system responsive again... cpu load went back to 20% | 09:58 |
| generalsnus | is there somthing i can do to the script, to prevent this? | 09:58 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: let me see | 09:59 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: try this: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/94659/ | 10:03 |
| TheSheep | generalsnus: but please report the bug too | 10:06 |
| generalsnus | ok, ill wait until i can reboot the thing.. | 10:06 |
| generalsnus | ill report bug aswell as reporting feedback here | 10:07 |
| generalsnus | brb lunch | 10:09 |
| R1cochet | is there a way to check my printer ink cartridge levels? 8.10 | 11:43 |
| gabkdlly | R1cochet: you might check if the site of your printer manufacturer has a page dedicated to linux support | 11:46 |
| gabkdlly | if there is not a way to do this, then it is a bug, since I have heard that running your printer when there is no ink can damage the heads | 11:46 |
| gabkdlly | although I guess on some printers it does not matter, you just find out that the cartridges are empty by your printouts fading to white | 11:47 |
| gabkdlly | you should definitely consult your user manual and/or the printers manufacturers site | 11:47 |
| likemindead | Can anyone explain why are some updates "kept back" when I try to "sudo apt-get update" and then "sudo apt-get upgrade" ? | 15:05 |
| likemindead | Is it most likely that there are dependencies for those packages that haven't made it into updates yet? | 15:06 |
| Shaba1 | anyone here? | 16:00 |
| tingle | jep | 16:02 |
| Shaba1 | Hello tingle | 16:04 |
| tingle | hello Shaba1 | 16:04 |
| Shaba1 | I think I found the answer to my question already | 16:04 |
| Shaba1 | but I will stand by just in case | 16:04 |
| Shaba1 | here is one though | 16:05 |
| tingle | good, google is your friend | 16:05 |
| Shaba1 | how do I find the version of xubuntu I am running | 16:05 |
| tingle | hm let me think | 16:05 |
| tingle | uname -a maybe | 16:05 |
| tingle | sec ill check | 16:05 |
| tingle | well you cant really see what XUBUNTU you running whit uname -a | 16:06 |
| tingle | Shaba1: applications > help on the top page you can see what version your running | 16:07 |
| tingle | Shaba1: Welcome to Xubuntu 8.10! for example | 16:08 |
| Shaba1 | that opened a web page in firefox | 16:09 |
| Shaba1 | it said welcome to xubuntu 8.04 or something similar | 16:09 |
| tingle | well than you prolly have 8.04 | 16:11 |
| Shaba1 | Ok next | 16:12 |
| Shaba1 | How do I "install" a .deb file | 16:12 |
| Shaba1 | sorry for all the stupid newbie questions | 16:12 |
| tingle | dpkg -i packagename.deb | 16:12 |
| tingle | as root ofc.. | 16:12 |
| Shaba1 | I a quite versed in windows but totally new to linux | 16:12 |
| tingle | its no problem but you can google most of the question too | 16:13 |
| tingle | im sure there has been someone whit the same question before you | 16:13 |
| Shaba1 | thanks tingle | 16:15 |
| tingle | no problem Shaba1 | 16:16 |
| Shaba1 | I will still hang out here though | 16:17 |
| Shaba1 | Now that I knew there is someone here | 16:17 |
| Shaba1 | :D | 16:17 |
| tingle | xD | 16:18 |
| Shaba1 | is the not and edit command in linux | 16:44 |
| Erant | How come my system boots up in the wrong resolution? I've only got about 1/4 of the screen. I can go to the Settings Panel and change the resolution, and then it's fine. | 16:46 |
| Erant | But it does that everytime I boot | 16:46 |
| Shaba1 | ok what question | 16:52 |
| Shaba1 | what does '/etc/profile/" do>? | 16:52 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: it's explained in teh first line of that file | 16:53 |
| Erant | Hmm, other question then. The GRUB that comes with Ubuntu, would that be GRUB2 or GRUB legacy? | 17:14 |
| crimsun | Erant: grub legacy | 17:17 |
| crimsun | Erant: we're actually in a session currently at UDS discussing replacing grub legacy with grub 2 | 17:18 |
| crimsun | Erant: and by "GRUB that comes with Ubuntu", I presume you mean not "GRUB available in Ubuntu" (because both are) but "GRUB that is the default bootloader" | 17:19 |
| MiVo | Hello, I try to use icecast2 in Xubuntu, but I get this error: "Starting icecast2: start-stop-daemon: Unable to set gid to 123 (Operation not permitted)" | 17:19 |
| Shaba1 | what is "UDS" | 17:20 |
| Kudi | KAD is firewalled still but i cant control udp in my router settings and i have no idea how to update the node list...all im looking for is a green arrow. What are my options? | 17:22 |
| Shaba1 | linux is so frustrating | 17:27 |
| Shaba1 | no wonder it had not made it as a general user OS | 17:28 |
| Kudi | Shaba1: ha if you think ubuntu is frustrating you need to read a lil more, ubuntu already does so much for you | 17:29 |
| Shaba1 | I have been using computer since I brought my first altair 5000 in the 70s | 17:33 |
| Shaba1 | I seperate things into how easy is it for someone like me to do operations | 17:34 |
| Shaba1 | and how easy it is for a general user to do the an operations | 17:34 |
| Shaba1 | and trust me linux is NOT for the average user | 17:34 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: it also hurts that you can't use all your experience from Other Operating Systems (tm) | 17:37 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: on the bright side, you learn a bit of POSIX, which is a standard that is going to stay | 17:37 |
| Shaba1 | true | 17:40 |
| Shaba1 | and that is why I am learning linus | 17:40 |
| Shaba1 | linux | 17:41 |
| Shaba1 | right now I am tring to get the roadsendphp compiler to complie itself | 17:41 |
| Shaba1 | and its frustrating | 17:41 |
| TheSheep | bootstrapping is always tricky | 17:44 |
| Shaba1 | bootstrapping? | 17:46 |
| Shaba1 | I used this page | 17:46 |
| Shaba1 | http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2008/07/24/install-roadsend-php-compiler-on-ubuntu-without-compiling-anything/ | 17:46 |
| Shaba1 | but when I get to step four I get and error. something about pcc.conf not availible or something | 17:47 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: remember how baron Munhausen pulled himself from swamp by his boot straps? | 17:47 |
| Shaba1 | nope | 17:48 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: anyways, the process of a program compiling itself or a loading itself into memory, or doing similar things with itself is called 'bootstrapping' | 17:49 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: that's why you 'boot' the operating system | 17:49 |
| Shaba1 | I know what that is TheSheep. I just did not see how it applied in this context | 17:52 |
| TheSheep | well, compiler compiling itself... | 17:53 |
| Shaba1 | lol | 17:56 |
| Shaba1 | I now it sounds silly | 17:56 |
| Shaba1 | did you look at that page? | 17:56 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: took a cursory glance | 18:00 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: not much to do, they provide ready debs, you just have to set up a bunch of environment variables because the debs have the files in wrong places | 18:01 |
| TheSheep | Shaba1: btw, instead of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, you can jsut add it to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf and run ldconf | 18:05 |
| TheSheep | ldconfig | 18:05 |
| Shaba1 | what does that do? | 18:21 |
| Shaba1 | TheSheep check out this pastbin. | 18:22 |
| Shaba1 | http://pastebin.com/d3a5f49ff | 18:22 |
| Shaba1 | that is the error I get when I use the -d 2 debug levle | 18:22 |
| Veinor | So I just switched from GNOME to xfce, what should I know? | 18:28 |
| knome | Veinor, be happy. | 18:29 |
| Veinor | lol | 18:30 |
| Veinor | but seriously, what should I get used to doing differently? | 18:30 |
| MOras | hi anyone to help me with xubuntu 6.06. I click on Applications but the list won't show | 18:31 |
| Shaba1 | TheSheep are you still here? | 18:34 |
| knome | Veinor, not really anything in particular. | 18:37 |
| Veinor | awesome | 18:37 |
| knome | but little things, xfce should be a bit more logical and have some different configurability | 18:40 |
| knome | you can just ask if you need help or don't know how something is supposed to be workinhg | 18:40 |
| knome | -h | 18:40 |
| Veinor | so far this is great | 18:40 |
| knome | good to hear.. | 18:42 |
| Veinor | hmm | 18:45 |
| Veinor | although my mute button doesn't seem to be able to unmute things | 18:45 |
| knome | did it work in gnome? | 18:45 |
| Veinor | yep | 18:45 |
| Veinor | and banshee doesn't seem to be liking this at all | 18:45 |
| knome | Veinor, mine works so i don't have any experience in fixing it | 18:46 |
| Erant | Veinor: Banshee works fine here too | 18:58 |
| Veinor | i get stuff like "Trying to dispose element playbin, but it is not in the NULL state. | 18:58 |
| Erant | I'm currently having some issues with XUbuntu as well though. In order to get a proper desktop, I have to re-set the resolution each time I boot. When I boot, I only get 1/4 of the screen :/ | 18:59 |
| Erant | It's like 640x480, with a 1024x768 framebuffer | 19:00 |
| Veinor | yeah, it's doing it even after a reboot. :/ | 19:05 |
| Veinor | hmm | 19:08 |
| Veinor | totem's doing it, but VLC isn't, nor is exaile | 19:08 |
| Veinor | er | 19:08 |
| Veinor | totem's glitching, VLC and exaile aren't | 19:08 |
| Veinor | fixed it | 19:14 |
| Veinor | pulseaudio wasn't starting for some reason | 19:14 |
| Veinor | now how do i get the multimedia keys to work again? | 19:17 |
| ohgodnotanother1 | hi there | 19:26 |
| ohgodnotanother1 | my brother is having trouble with his sound card on a fresh Xubuntu 8.10 | 19:26 |
| ohgodnotanother1 | where can I set the sound "manager"? OSS or ALSA? | 19:26 |
| ohgodnotanother1 | it's a built in intel sound card btw. | 19:27 |
| ohgodnotanother1 | the problem: no audio playback under the os | 19:27 |
| Voluhar | hello, my instalation of alternate xubuntu freeze up after first reboot in xfce | 19:36 |
| Aquina | hoi | 20:40 |
| Aquina | Is there a way to rename the "/home/<username>/Desktop" direcory to something like ".dektop"? | 20:41 |
| Aquina | It's often getting into my way... | 20:41 |
| David-A | Aquina: there are setting i this file that might be what you want, not tested: ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs | 20:52 |
| === leche_y_galletas is now known as leche | ||
| Aquina | thx, David-A ;-) | 21:48 |
| David-A | did it work changing XDG_DESKTOP_DIR? | 21:49 |
| Aquina | well I need to restart the gdm session. I'm gonna tell you later. ;-) | 22:01 |
| Aquina | 5 mins. | 22:01 |
| David-A | no worries, take your time, no need to hurry for me | 22:02 |
| ig0r1 | Hi everybody | 22:06 |
| ig0r1 | can anyone please tell me where is the Font dir in xubuntu??? | 22:06 |
| knome | ig0r1, you can put fonts in ~/.fonts | 22:06 |
| knome | ig0r1, then fc-cache -f -v | 22:07 |
| ig0r1 | knome: but that would be for one user only? | 22:07 |
| knome | ig0r1, yes. | 22:07 |
| knome | !fonts | 22:07 |
| ubottu | Font installation basics here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FontInstallHowto - No fonts in Flash? Install "msttcorefonts" (from !Multiverse), "gsfonts", and "gsfonts-x11". No fonts in MPlayer? see !MPlayer | 22:07 |
| knome | there you are. | 22:08 |
| David-A | ig0r1: remember, every user config for him self | 22:08 |
| ig0r1 | Thank you very much I will read it! )) | 22:08 |
| Aquina | brb | 22:21 |
| Aquina | It didn't work. :-( | 22:21 |
| Aquina | I followed there instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-631711.html | 22:22 |
| David-A | Aquina: just a hunch, what if, what happens if you add a line "export XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=~/.desktop" in the file ~/.profile or ~/bash_profile (but no "quotes") (and logout/in) | 22:26 |
| Aquina | sec I'm loggin in and out... | 22:29 |
| Aquina | no, It doesn't work | 22:31 |
| Aquina | :-( | 22:31 |
| David-A | Aquina: well, i dont know then. remember to restore your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile and ~/.config/whatsitsnameagain | 22:33 |
| R1cochet | everytime i try to add an .mp3 to audio project in Brasero it freezes the program | 22:35 |
| R1cochet | is there anyway to fix this? | 22:35 |
| Aquina | thx, David-A | 22:43 |
| Aquina | :-/ | 22:43 |
| David-A | :-( with u and the environment, otherwise :-) | 22:44 |
| Aquina | :-) | 22:45 |
| David-A | sorry, no comparision with u and the environment intended | 22:45 |
| Aquina | "with me and the environemnt" - a strange expression... | 23:27 |
| ubendu | Is xubuntu just a shortened-down version of ubuntu? Or is it completely different. | 23:27 |
| ubendu | Looking for something light to run on office computers. | 23:28 |
| knome | R1cochet, i don't actually know if brasero supports mp3 | 23:28 |
| knome | ubendu, it's basically the same, but it uses xfce as window manager rather than gnome, so for the enduser it might look quite a lot different | 23:28 |
| ubendu | knome: So it's not 'lighter' at all really? Just different. | 23:29 |
| knome | ubendu, it is also lighter, yes, | 23:29 |
| ubendu | knome, right okay :) | 23:29 |
| knome | ubendu, it really depends on the machine you have whether it's usable | 23:29 |
| ubendu | Well, they have Windows (am I allowed to say that here?) on the server and all computers at the moment | 23:30 |
| ubendu | So it would be a big conversion. | 23:30 |
| knome | ubendu, how much ram? | 23:31 |
| ubendu | knome: It differs from machine to machine, but I thought the requirements for Windows XP Professional > ubuntu | 23:32 |
| ubendu | > x 100. | 23:32 |
| knome | ubendu, yes... | 23:33 |
| knome | ubendu, which is the lowest? are we talking about 128 or 256 or 512 | 23:33 |
| ubendu | 256 | 23:33 |
| ubendu | I will have to check though first. | 23:33 |
| knome | it should be ok, but maybe a bit slow user experience. | 23:34 |
| ubendu | What would be the easiest way of install ubuntu on all of those computers? | 23:34 |
| ubendu | We're talking 30/40. | 23:34 |
| ubendu | ubuntu-server will be on the server, so is there a net install feature? | 23:34 |
| knome | i'm not actually an expert on this. | 23:34 |
| knome | cody-somerville, ? | 23:34 |
| TheSheep | we are actually dd-ing the whole hard disk, it's about 100-150 computers | 23:35 |
| knome | hello TheSheep. how are you? | 23:35 |
| TheSheep | we have a simple linux boot disk that brings up the network, downloads and unzips the disk images and runs grub | 23:35 |
| TheSheep | knome: hi, all good | 23:36 |
| zoredache | you probably should consider setting up a apt-cache, you might want to look at pxe booting the mini.iso, you might want to look at building an answer script so you can completely automate the install | 23:36 |
| TheSheep | I admit we do that mainly because we also install windows that way | 23:36 |
| zoredache | TheSheep: how do you deal with hardware varation? | 23:37 |
| TheSheep | zoredache: our installs are proofed to it | 23:38 |
| TheSheep | zoredache: at least in the range of the computers we have to support | 23:38 |
| TheSheep | zoredache: I thin they use something called sysprep on windows | 23:38 |
| zoredache | yeah, but on linux boxes, do you do something to resize the partitions to take up all the available space? | 23:39 |
| TheSheep | zoredache: no, we use sfdisk to create the partitions and just leave the empty space as it on the larger disks | 23:40 |
| TheSheep | zoredache: the installs are prepared for the smallest disks we support | 23:41 |
| zoredache | ah | 23:41 |
| TheSheep | it's easier this way, we also have some hooks in /etc/rc.local to run scripts from nfs-mounted partition, so we can add fixes after the install | 23:42 |
| TheSheep | and they will be applied on next boot | 23:42 |
| TheSheep | for the next year we are working on instalation scripts based on torrent :) | 23:43 |
| Constrabus | What is the default root password to enter su for the xubuntu live CD | 23:45 |
| Constrabus | Im using the xubuntu live cd to install gentoo on a hard drive. | 23:46 |
| knome | Constrabus, you should use sudo | 23:46 |
| j_xinudsb | yes --sudo passwod root | 23:50 |
| j_xinudsb | sorry | 23:50 |
| j_xinudsb | sudo passwd root | 23:50 |
| j_xinudsb | to set it | 23:50 |
| j_xinudsb | or $sudo bash | 23:52 |
| knome | actually i referred to using sudo and not root at all..... | 23:53 |
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