Failed to fetch means that you failed to make a connection to there repository (just like it says in the error).

Check your internet connection and DNS settings.

a) boot live cd
b) mount and chroot into BT filesystem
c) mv or rm /boot/grub/menu.lst
d) run `update-grub`

Is this topic considered a political discussion? :p

For anyone interested, Jörg Schilling was surrounded by controversy when he relicensed part of cdrtools as CDDL, a license not compatible with...

First off, there is absolutely not need to pipe cat through grep to do something that grep can do on its own.


root@bt:~# cat /proc/filesystems | grep xfs

Should be:


root@bt:~# grep -i...

Backtrack is based of Ubuntu but that does not make it Ubuntu.

You can install Gnome in BT, but it will break the menu system.

What is your need to upgrade to 9.10? What features does it have...

How did you install dump?

If you installed it the proper way, where does it look like it placed the binary? (`dpkg -S dump`)

Is it in your $PATH? (`echo $PATH`).

rm the .kde folders from your home directory. This is a quick and dirty way to fix issues caused by misconfiguration or bugs in configuration. All your kde specific user settings will be lost but it...

Why not just add it the default run level and leave it at that? Must we hack around configuration files when we don't need to?

double post, disregard

Thanks for the link. I will look in to it, however, a tool is already provided for this (no script required). Its called `apt-key`. I just need to get around to learning how to use it :).

Doesn't the ubiquity installer allow for nearly full disk (minus /boot) encryption via LUKS?

Yep, Slackware based distros do have a graphical run level.

I run two distros that I have grown to love.


Gentoo - I run it on my laptop, one desktop and a "play" server. This distro is the most fun IMO. Its minimalistic nature makes it fast. The system...

# iwlist scan

write a script if you need to further parse or alter the text.

Here is a quick guide to recompiling and installing .deb packages from non-BT distros: Simple Source Builds

The guide should be added to the official wiki when it comes back up.

Common error often due to bad RAM. Use memtest to check your RAM sticks one at a time.

Just enter the interactive python interface and your all set as far as calculations. here are a couple examples:



pc-tesla speedtest # python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) ...

Done? are you sure? Did you forget all about /etc/init.d/skel and update-rc.d?





In Debian based distros there is no default run level for graphical mode unlike some others.

For more...

All the Windows installer will do is overwrite grub in the MBR. You can reinstall it with just about any linux live cd. If you check out google this is a hot topic in the Ubuntu community.

This command is not correct: mount /mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1

Mount syntax is the following:

mount <device> <mount point>

you are trying to do: mount <mount point> <device>

You can read `man...

What is the point of starting wicd?

Are you sure its not putting you in a busybox shell?

You could probably achieve this easily by splitting the USB drive into seperate partitions and treating it as an internal drive.

Buy a router that handles the PPPoE connection for all your clients. Then you would have much less to worry about.

What is the problem? You have described the correct results. What were you expecting?

just use iwlist scan.