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Debian Users, Cygwin, & Rsync: I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. I posted to the Debian User and Cygwin mailing lists [1] and thought I was done two days ago, but I wasn't -- after several hours of use of the Windows machine, rsync would again hang on Debian. To summarize, rsync pulls in perhaps 1,000 files from

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3-16 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Path to "xe" program in /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-mount-iso-sr should be: XE="/usr/bin/xe" HTH, David -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > isohdpfc pushes the CX value to the stack which it gets from INT 13 AH 41. > Quite surely bit 0 of that CX is not set. But bit 2 "Enhanced Disk Drive" > could be set. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H > > I understand on David's BIOS after > > andw $1,%cx

On 03/19/2017 04:03 PM, David Christensen wrote: > [ 0.600883] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on unkonwn-block(0,0) Similar kernel panic when booted on Intel DQ67SW i7-2600S. David

On 03/19/2017 08:30 PM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > That's because your syslinux.cfg is "wrong", but the behavior just > proves that SYSLINUX is indeed booting. > > # ***syslinux.cfg*** > DEFAULT mylabel > LABEL mylabel > LINUX vmlinuz > APPEND initrd=initrd.gz > # ****************** The USB flash drive boots the Debian installer in the old PC! > So

On 03/19/2017 09:05 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > Now, besides this whole discussion and with no reference to anyone in > particular nor offense intended, I have to admit that I am a little bit > tired of answering questions related to how an ISO image either fails > or succeeds when booting from USB (we both have been part of these > discussions during the last few years) . I

On 03/19/2017 09:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg via Syslinux wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> This is how I prepared an ADATA USB Flash Drive 4 GB: > ... > install-mbr /dev/sdb > ... > [Rest of very clear description snipped.] > > What's that? That desn't exist in the Debian I'm running. > Otherwise you gave a very good description of what you're doing.

On 03/19/2017 11:28 PM, David Christensen via Syslinux wrote: > I will try to do an install later, and will report the result. Booting the USB flash drive I prepared, the Debian installer runs: Select a language English Select your location United States Configure the keyboard American English Detect and mount CD-ROM Incorrect CD-ROM detected The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which

samba: I am attempting to set up a "group share" directory on Debian "Wheezy" where any user can create or place files and directories, and every other user has full access to those files and directories. The directory will be accessed both locally and via Samba. Here is my Linux, distribution, and file system info: $ cat /proc/version Linux version

On 03/21/2017 01:14 AM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > Hi, > > David Christensen wrote: >> Booting the USB flash drive I prepared, the Debian installer runs: >> [...] >> The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which cannot be used for installation. > > Afaik, the software in a Debian ISO looks for particular files to > identify the device with the ISO. > Did you

On 03/19/2017 01:12 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > Regarding distros for older computers, there are several. The > problem, at least at this point, is bootability. Although Antix is > for older computers, it is also based on Debian and the latest > ISOLINUX will also be bigger than 32KiB. Perhaps Knoppix or some (of > the many) PuppyLinux would still use ISOLINUX 4.xx or older.

On 03/19/2017 01:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> Is there a way I can build live 32-bit Debian GNU/Linux USB images without >> isohdpfx.S and syslinux.bin? > > You could try > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexible This is how I prepared an ADATA USB Flash Drive 4 GB: # cat

On 03/21/2017 01:41 AM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > Hi, > > i have uploaded a little gz compressed tarball > > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/block_seq.tgz > > containing > > -rwxr-xr-x thomas/thomas 4552 2017-03-21 09:23 block_seq > -rw-r--r-- thomas/thomas 315 2017-03-21 09:22 block_seq.c > > To be unpacked in a suitable directory by > >

On 03/18/2017 04:15 PM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > >> On 03/18/2017 01:18 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: >>> _ With the USB device connected to (one of) the problematic >>> computer(s), power up the system and get into the BIOS setup. In >>> the BIOS setup screen(s), change the boot order in such way that >>> the USB device is recognized as first

On 03/18/2017 03:02 PM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > Hi, > > David Christensen wrote: >> I use this USB flash drive for bootable installer images; I do not >> attempt to mount it. I don't know that I could, even if I wanted to: > > mkdir /mnt/iso > mount /dev/sdc /mnt/iso > > or, because partition 1 starts at block 0, you may mount it too >

syslinux at zytor.com: I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) and Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS installed. I would like to put Debian on them. I have downloaded: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso When I put debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso on a CD-R, it boots correctly.

On 03/18/2017 01:18 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > Some of the things you should / could (re)test / (re)try: > > _ Verify the md5sum of the ISO image. SHA256 verified for downloaded image and for contents of USB flash drive (see below). > _ Is this particular USB device _still_ capable of booting newer > computers? Yes. > What happens if you would try _again_ to boot a