Privacy tools and discussion for Debian GNU/Linux Users.

Hi Everybody!

Sorry for the downtime but I've been very busy in "real life" and this site is a one-man-job. As you can see, I've upgraded the site from Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 6.2 and imported all the old content.

Warning to other Drupal users: don't use too many modules. I found a few made the upgrade much more difficult that it should have been.

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5. Restore Forums

timo@poweredge:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/deb2flash.py
  File "/usr/local/bin/deb2flash.py", line 1197
    print "        Configuring Grub."
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Sure enough, look at line 1196 there is an accedental 'u' before the comment.

Tim - t413.com

Hi Everybody!

I've tried to avoid posting any off-topic discussions on this site but this time I feel it's worth it even if the message is only for a limited audience.

Over the last 50 years, we've seen a progressive eroding of our privacy and rights in the US and we've got a chance to get some of them back. Ron Paul is a dedicated supporter of Privacy and Personal Liberty. He voted against the RealID Act, and fought against the Patriot Act for years.

A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that a man cannot be forced to hand over his password for a Truecrypt encrypted volume on his laptop saying that giving up the password would grant access to information that the prosecution is currently unaware of that may be used to convict him.

More information: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html?tag=newsmap

Every once in a while you get an epiphany and realize that the world isn't quite what you thought it was.

deb2flash.py, Last Modified: 28 Aug 2007 10:57:27 AM by root

Line 379...:
print "require reinstalling it. Use this version at your own risk."
continue_test = raw_input("continue? (yes/NO) ")
if continue_test.lower() == "yes" or continue_test.lower() == 'y' :
print "Continuation confirmation not recieved, Bailing out."
sys.exit(0)

The logic is inverted, i have to type something different to "yes" or "y"

I am having problems installing several drivers which req kernel modules. specificly IPW3945, ati x1600 mobile video, and madwifi. they do not want to install correctly, i think its because boot is read only but i could be wrong, i followed the instructions for usb install on a 8gb usb thumb drive with encrypted partitons. if anyone can give me some hints, i would appreciate it thanks!

I am having problems installing several drivers which req kernel modules. specificly IPW3945, ati x1600 mobile video, and madwifi. they do not want to install correctly, i think its because boot is read only but i could be wrong, i followed the instructions for usb install on a 8gb usb thumb drive with encrypted partitons. if anyone can give me some hints, i would appreciate it thanks!

If one runs deb2flash.py and tries to set it up with a single parition, the install will fail because the script will try to mount the non-existant /boot partition. The output of the script is

    Running Command: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline apt-get install grub
        Configuring Grub.
        Grub Device: hd1
        Grub install complete
    Running Command: mount -o remount,ro /boot
    Command Failed -- Retry? (yes/NO)  yes

and the end of /mnt/usbbuild/install-chroot.log says:

feraga# echo $?
echo $?
1
feraga# mount -o remount,ro /boot