Humble suggestion for AMD GPUs problem

Hi. I have been reading these threads about AMD GPUs failing and giving black or distorted screens at boot. I am writing here to drop an idea. I hope this helps, if not, just forget it. :) Could you make the system detect the unsuccessful boot failing to load the graphical desktop interface,

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

Hi. I'm writing here to share my experience with eatmydata in the debian-installer. I was installing Debian 10 on a USB stick. The PC has a USB 2.0 port and the stick's writing speed is about 4.6 MiB/s. I did not measure the installation time precisely, but I'm sure it took at least 6 hours to

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

Ok, thank you for the additional information. El vie, 9 abr 2021 a las 1:20, ValdikSS () escribió: > 4. ISO image should include eatmydata and libeatmydata packages in /pool > directory. Right now only eatmydata-udeb is included. I have questions, isn't eatmydata-udeb enough to get it working

Bug#986500: finish-install: Also install spice-vdagent for kvm/qemu guests

2021-04-06 23:13 GMT-04:00, Arnaud Rebillout : > Dear Maintainer, > > hw-detect already installs the package qemu-guest-agent when kvm/qemu > virtualization is detect, in 'hw-detect.finish-install.d/08hw-detect': > > kvm|qemu) > apt-install --with-recommends qemu-guest-agent || true >

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 4:51 GMT-04:00, john doe : > This move should be documented somewhere and maybe emit a warning to > that effect before starting the installer: > > "Incase of failure during the installation, it is recommended to restart > from scratch." That warning sounds good, but perhaps it should

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

El mar, 6 abr 2021 a las 18:45, Samuel Thibault () escribió: > > Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z, le mar. 06 avril 2021 18:16:49 -0400, a ecrit: > > What would happen if you were installing Debian to dual-boot > > with another OS? > > That is not a concern, only the partition getting i

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

Emm. Sorry. The mail was accidentally sent twice.

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-06 17:41 GMT-04:00, Samuel Thibault : > Indeed. But a fresh install is not critical information. If you lost > power during installation you'll want to restart over anyway. > > Its name is there for people to indeed not think that it's a magic wand > that makes everything faster. It makes

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-06 17:41 GMT-04:00, Samuel Thibault : > Indeed. But a fresh install is not critical information. If you lost > power during installation you'll want to restart over anyway. > > Its name is there for people to indeed not think that it's a magic wand > that makes everything faster. It makes

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-06 14:24 GMT-04:00, ValdikSS : > People on #debian-boot IRC told me to contact dpkg team. Guillem Jover, > one of dpkg maintainer, posted the following reply in dpkg > --force-unsafe-io still calls fsync() > bug from > 2014: >

Installing Debian from HDD with Win7 to USB stick

Dear developers and mantainers, I want to install Debian to a USB stick from a hard drive with Windows 7. This is what I have already done: I put an ISO DVD image of Debian 10.8 at C:\ I put vmlinuz and initrd.gz from hd-media at C:\tmpx\ I extracted g2ldr and g2ldr.mbr from the ISO image and

Bug#985755: Modprobe tried to load incorrect module

I noticed in the "syslog" that modprobe couldn't find the module "rtw_8723de" that was not listed on the provided "hardware-summary"; instead, lsmod shows "rtw88_8723de". Then, the module "r8169" tried to load the firmware, but that module belongs to the GbE card. hardware-summary: lspci -knn: