Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect the first is closer to my mental image. Did you use > debootstrap with --variant=minbase, grml-debootstrap with --nopackages, > OR something else? For the first to work, I just copy the boot directory to the card/usb stick and make it bootable (grub install). The

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread arne
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 17:47:15 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 18:02:39 +0200, Frank Hall wrote: > > > I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. > > > > I will write the image to a large USB stick to use as installation > > media. Therefore, I may as well include all packa

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 April 2018 18:38:44 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > ... > > > The long test was good fwtw. The only notable odd reading was head > > flying hours, which should be close to spinning hours, but in both > > instances must have been a 512 bit value pulled out of thin air. > > Bugg

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread songbird
Gene Heskett wrote: ... > The long test was good fwtw. The only notable odd reading was head flying > hours, which should be close to spinning hours, but in both instances > must have been a 512 bit value pulled out of thin air. Buggy firmware? I > don't recall ever taking that model to seagates

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, April 15, 2018 12:48:35 PM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 08:05:12AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, April 14, 2018 03:57:08 AM Reco wrote: > > > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > > > It was very straightforward

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread songbird
Frank Hall wrote: > I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. > > I will write the image to a large USB stick to use as installation > media. Therefore, I may as well include all packages. > > How do I assemble such an image? if you already have dvd images? or no? shouldn't really

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 03:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 14:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: What are the trade-offs of choosing between debootstrap and grml-debootstap? I understand that eit

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 14:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > What are the trade-offs of choosing between debootstrap and > > > grml-debootstap? > > > I understand that either way I h

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 20:03:30 +0200, Frank Hall wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: > > You (and Richard Owlett) could find the "Installation" section on the > > front page of the wiki useful. > > > > The Debian home page has a search box. Inputting "jigdo" should lead > > you

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 02:32 PM, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: Could you skip all that and use something like busybox or buildroot? I hadn't recalled either at the moment. Busybox might have an edge as it in the Debian repository {and I even have it installed - will have to investigate why I installed i

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Could you skip all that and use something like busybox or buildroot? On Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 3:20 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. I currently use the i386 flavor of Stretch. My hardware allows choosing

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 12:30 PM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. if you just want to boot in your system, then you take only the boot directory - this is the simplest way

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 April 2018 12:24:17 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 15/04/18 12:02 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Gene Heskett composed on 2018-04-15 02:47 (UTC-0400): > >> Wheezy on an atom board. Wheezy up to date. > >> This drive,mounted as /, has gone ro twice in 14 days. Doing > >> nothing but sitting the

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 April 2018 10:03:15 Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 03:59:20 -0400 Gene Heskett said: > > If you mean the hot red, I suspect it is. But I've not had that box > > off the shelf in 2 or 3 years so its the likely suspect until > > smartctl gives me a full report. > > Oh

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Frank Hall wrote: > I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. > [...] > How do I assemble such an image? The installation images are made by a package named "debian-cd". It has its own mailing list: debian...@lists.debian.org which is also about the official installation ISOs

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread Frank Hall
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: > You (and Richard Owlett) could find the "Installation" section on the > front page of the wiki useful. > > The Debian home page has a search box. Inputting "jigdo" should lead > you to the DVD files. I don't think you understood my question. The hy

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash > drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. > > I currently use the i386 flavor of Stretch. > My hardware allows choosing to boot from a flash drive. >

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB > flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. if you just want to boot in your system, then you take only the boot directory - this is the simplest way and less consuming space. I used such a

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 08:05:12AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, April 14, 2018 03:57:08 AM Reco wrote: > > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > > It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional > > configuration - two W

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 18:02:39 +0200, Frank Hall wrote: > I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. > > I will write the image to a large USB stick to use as installation > media. Therefore, I may as well include all packages. > > How do I assemble such an image? > > I've read the

Re: create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 11:02 AM, Frank Hall wrote: I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. I will write the image to a large USB stick to use as installation media. Therefore, I may as well include all packages. How do I assemble such an image? I've read the manpage of build-simple-cdd a

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 15/04/18 12:02 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Gene Heskett composed on 2018-04-15 02:47 (UTC-0400): Wheezy on an atom board. Wheezy up to date. This drive,mounted as /, has gone ro twice in 14 days. Doing nothing but sitting there spinning and running wheezy's usual cron related stuffs. Apr 14 0

create large ISO installation image

2018-04-15 Thread Frank Hall
I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. I will write the image to a large USB stick to use as installation media. Therefore, I may as well include all packages. How do I assemble such an image? I've read the manpage of build-simple-cdd and am none the wiser; nor have I managed to

DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. I currently use the i386 flavor of Stretch. My hardware allows choosing to boot from a flash drive. I suspect that if using deboostrap the closest I can come is using "

Problem of expanded partition partially solved.

2018-04-15 Thread Gdsi
Hi all. I used 'parted /dev/sda2', it is exactly, about 'resize2fs /dev/sda' don't remember,but exact not did format 'swap' and 'sda2'. I deleted swap-partition and create it again with 'parted', between 'deleted--create' I expand 'sda2' ( 'parted' not requests from me nothing), 'fdisk' for

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 14, 2018 03:57:08 AM Reco wrote: > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional > configuration - two WiFi APs with the same SSID ('AP name' in layman > terms), each brigded to the same wired

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread Dan Purgert
Reco wrote: > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional > configuration - two WiFi APs with the same SSID ('AP name' in layman > terms), each brigded to the same wired VLAN. Worked better than I was > anticip

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Apr 2018 at 10:21:46 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> Well, nice that they're starting to do that ... it's still a Linksys, so >> (not having any experience with it either), I'd lean toward it not being >> that great of a device. > > That's a shame. I was moving toward

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 April 2018 03:02:59 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2018-04-15 02:47 (UTC-0400): > > Wheezy on an atom board. Wheezy up to date. > > This drive,mounted as /, has gone ro twice in 14 days. Doing nothing > > but sitting there spinning and running wheezy's usual cron relate

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 April 2018 02:51:56 Jessica Litwin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 2:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy on an atom board. Wheezy up to date. > > This drive,mounted as /, has gone ro twice in 14 days. Doing nothing > > but sitting there spinning and running

Re: RAID1 on boot?

2018-04-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/04/2018 à 18:55, Boyan Penkov a écrit : This is a wonderful page — https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SoftwareRaidRoot — is it still current for Stretch? Mostly, but it fails to take EFI boot into account. UEFI systems have become quite common these days.

Re: Problem of expanded partition partially solved.

2018-04-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/04/2018 à 18:51, Gdsi a écrit : Problem of expanded partition partially solved. After used 'resize2fs /dev/sda' I doubt that was the correct command. The filesystem is in /dev/sda2, not /dev/sda. Here remained the 2-minute scanning 'sda' in booting, which not very bother for me, but

Re: is this drive dying?

2018-04-15 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2018-04-15 02:47 (UTC-0400): > Wheezy on an atom board. Wheezy up to date. > This drive,mounted as /, has gone ro twice in 14 days. Doing nothing > but sitting there spinning and running wheezy's usual cron related stuffs. > Apr 14 07:54:58 shop kernel: [1221665.148392]