Debian :: Changing From HDD To SSD Using DD Command
Apr 19, 2015
My hard disk is failing and I tried to change to a SSD using the dd command. I can boot up but I get a lot of warnings. The first warning is in GRUB that the device GRUB is looking for does not exist. I tried to install bootlogd to get all the messages to post but installing from the synaptic package manager. Running apt-get install bootlogd gives me these messages:
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Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae (3.2.65-1+deb7u2) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae to initrd.img.
[Code] .....
after rebooting I got this from the boot log file.
Code: Select allfsck.ext2: Unable to resolve 'UUID=0ee695a9-d8df-4152-8d32-fc3a99d75f15'
Sun Apr 19 17:26:53 2015: fsck died with exit status 8
Sun Apr 19 17:26:53 2015: ^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[31mFAIL^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c^[[31mfailed (code 8).^[[39;49m
[Code] ....
Is there some way to tell the system I changed to a SSD as I think that is causing the problems ? Or if that is not possible is there some way to transfer my whole system (installed packages, settings and files) to an SSD ? If all else fails I still have an extra spare HDD (exactly the same as the failing one) that I can use but I would prfer the SSD.
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Aug 24, 2011
I am using Fedora12 on desktop. I tried to change keymap from systm->preferences->keyboard->layout. This changes my keymap successfully. I want to perform above activity using command line for my powerpc target. My powerpc target environment do not have KDE,GNOME or any x-windowing support. which command and which files to be overlooked for this?
I want to change keyboard layout not keymap from command line.
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I am using OpenSUSE 11.4.
This is the error I get:
Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///home/jonathan/Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c: does not exist.
Is there a way I can change this to another directory?
Also, when I look at the directories under ".wine", I see this:
Code:
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I have a CentOS 5.5 machine (hosted at a remote hosting company) where "ethtool" reports that the eth0 device is currently in 10 Mbps mode, but the output indicates that it supports 100 Mbps. But if I try using ethtool to switch the device into 100 Mbps mode, it doesn't work; after running the command to switch it to 100 Mbps, ethtool reports the speed is still 10 Mbps:
[root@sls-eb5p17 network-scripts]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
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The man page at [URL]..ethtool seems to suggest that this should have worked. Any reason why the reported speed of the device didn't change? Changing other settings doesn't appear to work either, e.g. if I specify "duplex half" instead of "speed 100", eth0 still reports "Duplex: Full".
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Reading around a bit, looks like you can indeed change your username with relative ease, but then there will be always something left behind somewhere still pointing at the old username: is that the case?
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Jul 24, 2015
I am currently running Debian Jessie with the Xfce DE.
I recently decided to replace the Xfce window manager with i3. Running Code: Select allsudo apt-get remove xfcwm unfortunately caused a lot of very necessary software to be listed as "no longer required" because they were installed automatically with xfcwm; reinstalling xfcwm did not fix the issue.
I would like to know how I can list these packages as "required", or at least as not automatically installed. I tried using
Code: Select allsudo apt-mark unmarkauto
But this only seems to work one package at a time, and there are simply too many packages for this to be a convenient solution.
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Jun 24, 2015
I am a experienced Windows person and my roots go back to DOS and the first version of windows. I am pretty good with computers but have little to no experience with Linux or Unix. About 30years ago I managed to make a painful transition from DOS and xTree Gold to Windows 3.1. Now I am leaving Windows behind forever...
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I just cannot figure oout how to get the KDE desktop installed and running. If it is practical I would like to keep Gnome for now, switch to KDE as the defaultdesktop.
I have spend some hours googling and searching this forum and cannot seem to find anyting on switching or changing desktops from and with the Jessie install.
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Jun 13, 2010
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I had composed about 4 meticulous paragraphs and when I went to submit it all, the forum had logged me out and all the entire post got blown away. Don't have the time to do it again. Hope the abbreviated version makes sense.
Trying to write scripts to change keyboards on the fly (my wife is a luddite and either I automate it or she won't use the machine.)
Wrote a file named "ChangeKeyboardToUS" which reads
#!/bin/bash
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All that syntax is as per [URL] ....
I put that file into my local bin (home/bj/bin) and in terminal add that to my path with the command:
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<Directory />
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AllowOverride None .....
When I restart apache I get a 403 error, and when I change it back to its original, it works fine. I want to change the DocumentRoot so I can upload files via FTP to ~/public_html.
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