August 2006 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Running from a USB drive
by Glenn Ramsey 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Hi, I have sucessfully installed XUbuntu Dapper onto an external USB disk drive. I would like to be able to run it using this drive but the PC I have does not have the option of booting from USB. I understand that one solution to this is to create (or obtain) a custom boot floppy or CD, but I am wondering if it is possible to do it just with the live/install CD by passing the right parameters at the boot prompt. I tried pressing F6 and changing the root=/dev/ram to root=/dev/sda1 and removing all the other stuff but that didn't work. It boots but still runs from the CD. If that approach is not possible then is there a small (we're still in the DSL dark here) prebuilt iso that can be used to do this? I notice that there is a mini.iso in the distribution which I understand has something to do with network booting. Since that isn't too far removed from what I wan't to do then would it possible to use that? I have done some web searching for this but could only find the instructions for making a custom boot floppy or CD. Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In which CraigBox will present an overview of the http://www.wlug.org.nz/Squid caching WebProxy server, including: * how to set it up for a home network * how to have a gateway machine transparently proxy requests * locking down web access * and a sneak preview of what's coming in the new Squid 3.0.

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Getting files from a debian/ubuntu mirror
by Glenn Ramsey 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

I have LAN access to an Ubuntu mirror at Akl uni and I'd like to copy all the Dapper packages (incl multiverse and universe) onto my laptop so I can install it on other PCs at home. For Breezy I just copied the whole thing (11.4Gb), since the mirror was new and that's all that was there but I expect that it will have more than doubled in size now and I won't have HD space for it. Is there a way to copy only the package files for a specified version? Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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Python problem?
by Leslie Katz 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

Hi, Carlos. I tried your method 1 (except that I substituted "python24" for "python2.4", given the file's funny name) and it worked immediately. Many thanks, Leslie

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Python problem?
by Leslie Katz 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

I downloaded the latest version of youtube-dl (2006.08.15) from www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/. It's a CLI program to download videos from YouTube. The instructions say you need the Python interpreter, v 2.4. A check of my RPM packages showed that I only had python-2.3.4-13.1.i386.rpm installed, so I also installed python24-2.4.1-2.i386.rpm, which I assume means that I now satisfy the requirement for v 2.4 of the Python interpreter. However, when I run youtube-dl, I get the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 150, in ? urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPCookieProcessor' I checked the contents of the file youtube-dl and line 150 of it is identical to the third of the four lines I just set out. I know nothing about Python. I did google to see if I could find some solution to the problem, but couldn't. Is there anything that strikes people immediately as something I could try to get youtube-dl working?

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Open source WMA/WMV from Real
by Ian McDonald 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6105970.html?part=rss&tag=6105970&subj=news I know you can get this already from some sources but this in theory is fully legal rather than obtaining from other countries... Hopefully it will be in a license that can be incorporated into other code so we don't just have to use helix but regardless is another step forward as is Java going more opensource which was also announced at Linux World. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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device order
by zcat 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

I ran into a very frustrating problem yesterday, hopefully someone in wlug knows the answer.. Verne has 4 sound devices; onboard sound, two PCI cards, and a USB transmitter. When I first set up breezy I had them loading as /dev/dsp onboard /dev/dsp1 first PCI /dev/dsp2 second PCI When he first got the USB transmitter it kept coming up as /dev/dsp1 and I managed to fix that by listing snd-intel8x0 and snd-ens1371 in /etc/modules, forcing the module for the onboard sound and two PCI cards to load earlier. Yesterday I upgraded to dapper and now all the sound devices come up in completely unpredictable order, not even the same on two consecutive boots. Even though the correct modules are still listed in /etc/modules. Is there a proper way to force devices to get detected in the order I want?

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Re: [wlug] DVD woes!! + wifi
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Is that a single command on one line or two seperate commands? John > > Which suggests that you need to set an environment > variable. Try this in a shell; > > export DVDCSS_RAW_DEVICE=/dev/dvd > totem dvd:// > > And let me know what happens. > >

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Re: [wlug] DVD woes!! + wifi
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

You are right about strange, unless the dvd is encrypted differently to the last one we tried... Wlan I read that I need to dump "wifi radar" so just did that while I was out. The Howto says I need to extract a driver but I am sure I saw a reference to the bcm driver in dmesg so looking there then more reading I guess. Bruce. If you would like to I can bring it around at some stage. *........* Regards John ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > > Here we go this is strange but true, > > * Eats words and watches dvd's* > > I went down and ran "apt-get update then installed > > mplayer. > > That is very strange, because I'm still quite sure we did > already try mplayer when you were here last! But good to > know it's working now. > > > How's the wireless coming along? >

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Irix
by Shane 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi All, Ive had an indy for a couple of years (complete with working webcam!) but I have no media for the OS (nor a monitor for that matter) As much fun as you can have with one of these things, Id like to have the OS on hand to start from scratch. Does anybody know where I can lay my greasy hands on the media? (and how much beer will need to be traded) Thanks Shane

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