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qdiff any chance?
by T o n g 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi, First of all, thank you mika for answering my previous question. Now, Is there any recommended binary files differ that can detect binary insertions/deletions/substitutions with colorful output? Here is the one that I found most useful. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.lsm qdiff - Compare two binary files and print differences in various ways, very colorful output (insertions/deletions/substitutions), simple yet effective syncro engine, may be very slow, useful and fast for large files with few differences (e.g. verifying correctness of grabbed cdda data) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.tar.gz any chance to include it in our repo? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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knoppix-like bootfrom in gmrl?
by Albretch Mueller 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hi, ~ I was looking for a Unicode/utf-8 based LiveCD and apparently gmrl looks like it ~ The thing is that knoppix does not offer Unicode support and I was getting weird results while coding for Unicode data ~ I use knoppix a lot and got used to most of its ways to do things ~ So, where is the old good bootfrom=/dev/<your device>/knoppix.iso ;-) ~ Based on my personal expirience CDs and CD-ROM drives are heavily taxed by LiveCDs and start failing with cloop I/O errors pretty quickly, that is why I always go for the bootfrom cheatcode, keep a small partition just for the ISO and use lots of RAM ~ Thanks lbrtchx

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/dev, udev and backup
by T o n g 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Hi, Do I need to backup the /dev directory when backing up my root fs? FYI, I thought udev would populate it on boot up so I didn't backup the /dev directory. However, I got Warning: unable to open initial console and the boot froze. Going through all the possible reasons in http://kerneltrap.org/node/2205 did I realize that my /dev directory should be backed up & populated. Please comment. Thanks. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml in a multi-boot environment
by DON.RAIKES＠oracle.com 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Hello, I have a multi-boot system containing fedora 9, and enterprise linux 5. I want ot add grml to this system so that I can customize it. The current system has a boot partition /dev/sda1, and both the fedora and enterprise linux systems use grub. How can I tell grml2hd to install grml into a partition on this system and use the /boot partition for its boot partition, and to add grml to the grub menu.lst file?

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grml and booting via pxe
by Philipp Flesch 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi! I was wondering how to get grml_1.1.iso booting via pxe. I've already ... ... unpacked the iso to /exports/grml ... access via network to 10.10.0.103:/exports/grml ... read http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver and ... downloaded http://grml.org/terminalserver/grml_netboot_package_1.1.tar.bz2 (and installed it) ... found http://www.mail-archive.com/grml@mur.at/msg00802.html Now ... that are the right parameters in pxelinux.cfg/default? APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> can't access tty ==> problem mounting live file system APPEND ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/etc/init nfsdir=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml nodhcp noprompt noeject apm=power-off nomce initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> brings grml up to "Begin: Waiting for the root file system ..." Where to find the fault? Philipp

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grml newbie
by DON.RAIKES＠oracle.com 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hello, I have been a unix/linux user for roughly 15 years, but have just recently learned about the concepts and power behind grml (yesterday). I am blind, and an very pleased with the integration of speakup and brltty into the grml live cd. My first "job" with grml is to try to diagnose/recover a windows laptop. It had problems right from the beginning when we opened the box from the manufacturer, but my daughter was able to keep it going for 2.5 yerars. This spring it simply stopped booting even after a full re-install of windows. Any tips on system diagnostics that I could run would be appreciated.

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IRC-log contents related to hardware problem
by Keith Hinton 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hello all, I have an AMD64-bit box with an interesting hardware quirk. Hear is the contents of and IRC log, and hopefully this helps. Suggestions, please! <Keith-BlindUser> Hello all. I have an odd quirk in my hardware on another box. <Keith-BlindUser> I need assistance in troubleshooting the issue, and har it is. <Keith-BlindUser> hear <Keith-BlindUser> Note: I only speak english, not German, so.. <Keith-BlindUser> Hear goes. <Keith-BlindUser> The GRML CD boots, or starts too, sort of. Then, the CD hangs, at: "Mounting TMPFS." The word "Segmentation Fault" appears next to that. I have had someone read me the screen. <Keith-BlindUser> The amount of RAM int he other box is 1G or 1024M. But the box does this constantly. I would run memtest86, but have had noone available to read me any possible errors with the RAM. <Keith-BlindUser> I've ran Memtest multiple times. <Keith-BlindUser> But I'm not just going to give up without a fight. <Keith-BlindUser> So I want to know if posible any kernel command-line arguments I could try <Keith-BlindUser> It may be bad RAM, but I'm not simply going to take that for an answer until I have ran out of possibilities. **End of IRC log Contents. **Regards, --Keith

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Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion
by Cleverson 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation. Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't know how to deal with lilo. I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a logical partition ? I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition. I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different, since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type". Does anyone have any tip for me? Cheers Cleverson

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[gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project
by Maurice McCarthy 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

For information only. Firefox 3 will end support for the gopher protocol. A firefox addon has been written from scratch over the last few months, as below. Regards Moss ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> ----- Subject: [gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project (and other announcements) From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) To: gopher(a)complete.org This message is really, really long. Here goes: ** OverbiteFF for Firefox 3: "RTM" With the release of Firefox 3 RC2, I took the wraps off OverbiteFF. This is the release version, 1.0-1381. It does have some small changes, including a bug fix for port access, additional explicit ports and CSS tweaks, so it is a recommended download if you are still using -1380. We'll see if anyone gets the joke on the build number. ;-) You can now preview the Overbite Project pages. There are HTTP and Gopher versions: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/ (These are not publicly announced yet, but you can access them.) The HTTP and Gopher pages are largely drawn from the same data store, so people will get mostly the same views. Additional language packs are still being accepted from translators and I will gladly add them to OverbiteFF 1.1. ** Calling for OverbiteFF skins If you are or you were making your own skin for OverbiteFF, I would love to host them. I think this would give people something fun to play with -- I know Avery wanted some interface changes: Avery, did you come up with something of your own? The skins folder is here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/files/skins I'm going to be playing with this a little myself, but I'd love some community contributions. ** Mozilla Gopher activism When Firefox 3 is released, I will be putting the FF3 add-on up to the Mozilla official add-ons site, and then petitioning bug #388195 for one of the following: - Permission to backport the JavaScript to Core and then the add-on can go away. I am doubtful, however, that this would be permitted given the response by Brendan Eich. However, it had been suggested before. or, - Get the add-on into the release notes for FF4. I don't see how they could regard this as unreasonable. The other thing that will need to be done is to remind them that Gopher support must stay in 1.9. This was stated by Brendan in the thread. I'll notify the list to watch this bug when I start making announcements there to make sure they keep to it. ** Firefox 2 version (and later Camino 1.6 version) For Firefox 2.0 owners, now that the FF3 version is finalized, I am working on backporting it to 2.0.0.14. This should actually not take very long; if I did it right, there should be only two or three areas that need changing. I hope to have an FF2 beta within a couple of weeks. FF2 will use the same language packs as FF3. The Camino version will follow but there are some additional technical issues due to that browser's very limited add-on support. Skins should also work in FF2, but some of the Cairo-based rendering will probably not. ** bucktooth 0.2.5 Finally, bucktooth 0.2.5 should be released later today or this weekend with some important fixes, so stay tuned. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- Born free. Taxed to death. ------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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experiences with dell inspiron 530
by Henning Sprang 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Some experiences with grml 1.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530(nvidia chipset and graphics system) and a generic issue: when running grml-x with a module option, but without windowmanager, it complains that the windowmanager with the name of the module doesn't exist. I'd expect it just says "you didn't specify a windowmanager", but instead it seems to try to take the last argument as windowmanager name. As of the hardware support for inspiron: grml-x doesn't get an x system loaded - until I start it one time with the -fallback option. _after_ this one start with fallback, I can start it again, without fallback - and then I get a better resolution and can work without the screen-scrolling that happens in fallback mode. Let me know if you need and hints or info on the system. Henning

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Re: [Grml] How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi Michael and all As I said earlier, I'm trying to change the ESpeak voice language to Brazilian Portuguese in grml. I made some changes to /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, then restarted speechd-up successfully using the nice command, but the language remains English. I uncommented the line 78 in speechd.conf, and changed "en" to pt. It looks like this: DefaultLanguage "pt" Then I did the same for line 156 that now looks like this: LanguageDefaultModule "pt" "espeak" Does anyone knows what I am missing? Many thanks Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Re: [Grml] Install on LVM: some questions
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Michael wrote: > # mount | grep mapper > /dev/mapper/x61-grml2hd on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=3Dremount-ro) > /dev/mapper/grml-crypt_home on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime) > [...] > > I've all the partitions on LVM. :) Thanks. I've read that xfs and reiserfs have better performance than ext3 in general. Do you have any experience with another fs than ext3? Would you recommend any filesystem in particular? Cheers Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Re: [Grml] How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Michael wrote: > > I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have > > changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in > > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do > > after saving that file? > > Did you restart speechd? I'm not sure which commands should I type to do that. I echoed the following ones, but speech did not come back: sudo killall speech-dispatcher sudo speech-dispatcher sudo speechd-up Thanks for helping Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Install on LVM: some questions
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hi all I have one only HD, and was thinking of using LVM to install GRML to one or more logical partitions. But I've read that such setup is more likely to have problems regarding boot and files corrumtion. If someone has installed the entire system onto logical partitions, could please tell whether or not it's really more dangerous? Is it worth to give it a try? Also, I wouldn't like to lose any performance. Is there any slow down in any way? Last for now: during the installation process, does grml2hd allow to place the root directory / in one partition, and /home in another? Many thanks and congratulations for your nice distro. Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho

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How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hello I need to use software speech in grml. I have activated speech successfully, but I'd like to change the synthesiser language to Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do after saving that file? Thanks for any tip Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho) Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

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Adding a program to grml-medium on USB-stick
by Hubert Gabler 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hello, following your excellent instruction I installed grml-medium on a USB-stick thus eliminating the need to insert the grml CD whenever I want to do some minor data manipulations. For backing up partitions I use partimage, but unfortunately this program is not included in grml-medium. I have to "apt-get update" and "apt-get install partimage" each time I want to use it. Is there a way to permanently install this program (or any other) on the USB-stick? Hubert

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Re: [Grml] Speakup Softsynth not talking with grml 1.1
by Ernst-Dieter Wedekind 29 Mai '08

29 Mai '08

> Hm, is there any chance that you provide the output of "cat /proc/cmdline" > and > "px auxwww" after booting your problematic harddisk installation? > Maybe it's possible for you to access the box via SSH? > > When accessing the box via SSH please try to execute the following > commands: > > /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start > echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synth_name > aumix -w 90 -v 90 -p 90 -m 90 > nice -n -20 speechd-up > > Does this help? (Capturing the output of all the commands would help > us in debugging the problem as well.) > > regards, > -mika- > -- > http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins > http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge > http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog Hi Mika and listers, I got it solved now! it was very simple! I didn't think of having to be root to start speech. I thought it might be as simple as with the cdrom where the user doesn't matter! Sorry for troubling You with such a simple thing! Ernst

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Speakup softsynth not talking with grml 1.1 installation
by Ernst-Dieter Wedekind 28 Mai '08

28 Mai '08

Hi listers, I recently installed grml 1.1 on my hard disk and can't seem to get it talking through my softsynth device. I went through all the configuration files of speech-dispatcher and espeak but couldn't find the cause. However if I use the cdrom speakup talks through my hardware apollo synth as well as through software synth. I would like to have it talk through software synth. Any ideas as to what I might do? I'd like to add that I'm blind and therefore can't read the messages coming up when the system started and I enter swspeak! I also entered swspeak as a start parameter on the cdrom and on the hard disk installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ernst

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Re: [Grml] Grml Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4
by Björn Faath 26 Mai '08

26 Mai '08

"dpkg --purge etckeeper" was the goal to solve the Problem! Ok but what can I do if I still would like to use etckeeper. As far as I know I can save different States from etc files to downgrading to the old Version when i get an error in a configuration. Do I have the files manually backup? automatic backup of course, would also be a nice tool to have. regards Björn 2008/5/23, grml-request(a)mur.at <grml-request(a)mur.at>: > > Send Grml mailing list submissions to > grml(a)mur.at > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > grml-request(a)mur.at > > You can reach the person managing the list at > grml-owner(a)mur.at > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Grml digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk" (Michael Prokop) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:04:47 +0200 > From: Michael Prokop <mika(a)grml.org> > Subject: Re: [Grml] apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk" > To: grml(a)mur.at > Message-ID: <2008-05-22T23-01-55(a)devnull.michael-prokop.at> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > * Bj?rn Faath <bfaath(a)googlemail.com> [20080521 08:39]: > > > I try a apt-get install something and apt get freeze on "Writing > > extended Status Information". > > My Grml 1.1 reinstall after this, but the error looks the same as > > before. The CPU runs in the sky. With aptitude install get the same > > fault. What is happened! I have no idea. forget: first i do ap-get > > update that runs ok. apt-get install longrun: > > ---------------------------------------------- > > ~~The following NEW packages will be installed: > > longrun > > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1511 not > upgraded. > > Need to get 20.5kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be used. > > Writing extended state information... Done > > Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main longrun 0.9-20 [20.5kB] > > Fetched 20.5kB in 0s (22.9kB/s) > > What's in the process list when running aptitude/apt-get? (ps auxwwww) > Do you use etckeeper? Does removing etckeeper help? (dpkg --purge > etckeeper) > What's inside /tmp/log if you execute > "strace -f -eopen -o /tmp/log apt-get install longrun"? > > regards, > -mika- > -- > http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins > http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge > http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog > #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc >

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apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk"
by Björn Faath 22 Mai '08

22 Mai '08

Hello I try a apt-get install something and apt get freeze on "Writing extended Status Information". My Grml 1.1 reinstall after this, but the error looks the same as before. The CPU runs in the sky. With aptitude install get the same fault. What is happened! I have no idea. forget: first i do ap-get update that runs ok. apt-get install longrun: ---------------------------------------------- ~~The following NEW packages will be installed: longrun 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1511 not upgraded. Need to get 20.5kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main longrun 0.9-20 [20.5kB] Fetched 20.5kB in 0s (22.9kB/s) ------------------------------------------------ so long, leinex

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(Security-Issue) CVE-2008-0166 / DSA-1571-1: openssl - predictable random number generator
by Michael Prokop 14 Mai '08

14 Mai '08

Hi, usually I don't forward any Debian Security Advisories, but as this is a really important one please make sure you are aware of it: DSA-1571-1 openssl -- predictable random number generator: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html http://www.us.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 Reminder: subscribe to debian-security-announce if you aren't yet. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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grml medium on HD, no IP info?
by Lars Schimmer 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Kinda stuck now. I installed grml-medium to disk and it went fine so far. But now I installed the glftpd FTP daemon (yeah, I know) and tried to connect to it. To bad, that daemon always get a unknown(a)0.0.0.0 IP for the user who tries to log in. That works on the machine I try to replace. Is there anythin I forgot (no, the glftpd config kept the same). MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGHlsmWhuE0qbFyMRAhMAAJ9U3ysMSszTcz/6DzpzmCl6GK2KgACeOTRB 62gbM1gGPfp5Zsi9JX/OpP4= =uAtJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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how to upgrade
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hello, i have installed the latest version of grml to harddisk. If i do the following commands the upgrade of packages will stop with an error of dpkg, if the gkrellmd package will be upgraded. apt-get update apt-get upgrade I have also tested apt-get upgrade -f or apt-get dist-upgrade I have also done apt-get remove gkrellmd* But i become allways the same error. I want to use gnome-orca with gnome-desktop and so i have installed apt-get install gnome-orca apt-get install gnome-desktop. but the command orca -t produces a lot of errors, and so i think it is the best to bring all the installed packages to the newest version. Or is it better to change the distribution from lenny/sid to edge and if yes, how can i do that. Thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
by T o n g 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to load the powernow-k8 kernel module: % modprobe powernow-k8 FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8 (/lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device % dmesg | tail -2 powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.00.00) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects I think my BIOS supports the AMD PowerNow! technology, why I'm still getting the above? Is there anything on the software side that I'm missing? My box: % lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8V Deluxe/K8V-X motherboard Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5 Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration % cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/info processor id: 0 acpi id: 1 bus mastering control: no power management: no throttling control: no limit interface: no Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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recovery from mkfs error?
by John Magolske 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

I've heard grml comes with forensic tools, and so was wondering if there's anything in the toolkit that might help me recover from an unpleasant mistake. Trying to reformat a usb thumbdrive, I overlooked the fact that /dev/sda was my 160GB external hard drive (ext3), and that the thumbdrive was actually /dev/sdb. I issued this command: mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda The most important stuff was backed up, but there is some pain involved. Any suggestions (yes, I know... PAY ATTENTION!!) or pointers much appreciated. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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