Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Jul 2021 at 17:25:09 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b > > booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give full report in 1-2 weeks, after > > put in VM in it,

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 25 Jul 2021 at 09:37:14 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 04:41 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-07-24 9:33 p.m., David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 19:52:36 (-0400), Polyna-Maude > > Racicot-Summerside wrote: >

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 29/7/21 02:30, Dan Ritter wrote: and mount where you will. G'day Gene I make back-up disks at fstab options noauto,noexec and mount/unmount as part of the cron script. makes them 'less visible' to an uninvited visitor. Also, I run the back-up as root -- All the best Keith Bainbridge

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread piorunz
On 28/07/2021 17:29, Charles Curley wrote: I plan to add drives to upgrade the RAID to add checksums, and that will involve buying a SATA controller. Btrfs filesystem does that by default, no need to buy any additional hardware. It also does fake-software Raids on it's own without need for

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 July 2021 19:26:15 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:03:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > >> Raid6 sounds promising. Equivalent capacity is also one drive? > > > > > > No, you actually get about 2 drives of capacity out of 4 here. > > > > You

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > RAID-5 is N-1.  With 4 disks in a RAID-5 configuration, you'd get 3 > disks worth of usable storage. > > RAID-6 is N-2.  With 4 disks in a RAID-6 configuration, you'd get 2 > disks worth of usable storage. Sorry I mixed both :/

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:03:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Raid6 sounds promising. Equivalent capacity is also one drive? > > > > No, you actually get about 2 drives of capacity out of 4 here. > > You get N-1, so from 4x2TB disks you get close to 6TB RAID6 (you have also

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

2021-07-28 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 7/24/2021 4:14 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Hello! Let's help developers to test upcoming Debian version 11 by filling out the community-driven list of tested hardware configurations: https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/master/Dist/Debian_11

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread David Christensen
On 7/28/21 6:44 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; This, my main machine that backs up 5 others here, but does that with drives not involved with daily stuffs, and of course I'm gradually replacing spinning rust with SSD's. I've been dragging my feet on updating from stretch to buster,

Re: Types of Debian updates

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi Greg, On 2021-07-27 11:34 a.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 05:49:31PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: >> Please tell & explain which update types there are like >> Point release >> Release >> Update >> New distro release etc/similar. > > You can start with

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b > booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give full report in 1-2 weeks, after > put in VM in it, faster internet to it to handle VM. > And built websites with it. > Geg What's the

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

2021-07-28 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
- все Intermediate results will be published one week before the release (~Aug 7) - it's best time to contribute. But in the last week the report will still be updated daily till the release. After the release the report will be updated monthly. 28.07.2021, 22:59, "paolo gagini" :Hi,what is the

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: >> Raid6 sounds promising. Equivalent capacity is also one drive? > > No, you actually get about 2 drives of capacity out of 4 here. You get N-1, so from 4x2TB disks you get close to 6TB RAID6 (you have also various FS layer overhead) Gene, IMO this is best option but I do

keyboard bent in bullseye install?

2021-07-28 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bullseye netinstall, Dell Latitude 5414 laptop. The keyboard shows the wrong characters in Netinstall. Some of them. Download the iso, burn to CD, boot CD, run advanced install, start answering questions, American English keyboard (no difference

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

2021-07-28 Thread paolo gagini
Hi, what is the last day to take the test? thank you. Paolo On 28/07/21 21:45, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: 27.07.2021, 23:43, "Marco Möller" : On 24.07.21 22:14, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:  Hello!  Let's help developers to test upcoming Debian version 11 by

Thx guys and girls.

2021-07-28 Thread Gunnar Gervin
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Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

2021-07-28 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
27.07.2021, 23:43, "Marco Möller" :On 24.07.21 22:14, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Hello!  Let's help developers to test upcoming Debian version 11 by filling out the community-driven list of tested hardware configurations: https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/master/Dist/Debian_11 The

Update or reinstall

2021-07-28 Thread Gunnar Gervin
It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give full report in 1-2 weeks, after put in VM in it, faster internet to it to handle VM. And built websites with it. Geg

Re: partial freeze when playing 3D games

2021-07-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Toni Casueps writes: > Hi all, > > When running 3D games (video players or 2D games work fine), at a random > moment the image freezes. >From the video I guess this is about Windows games via some kind of emulation or translation layer? I really don't know. Maybe if you describe the setup?

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Reco
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:41:44PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-28 7:24 a.m., Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >>> 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub > >> Again

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:04:59 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > However, if you don't need second-by-second simultaneity, you > > could just set up a cron job to rsync your first drive to your > > second drive once an hour or twice a

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 July 2021 12:29:42 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:44:24 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I've been dragging my feet on updating from stretch to buster, > > waiting for 1TB SSD's to get affordable. Now they almost have. > > > > But I do have a pair of 500 GB

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:04:59 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > However, if you don't need second-by-second simultaneity, you > could just set up a cron job to rsync your first drive to your > second drive once an hour or twice a day or overnight. Or use rsnapshot to get the same effect with less

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-28 7:24 a.m., Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >>> 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub >> Again clueless of why you say that. >> Other than some rack server, > > Modern x86 servers

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 28 July 2021 11:04:59 Dan Ritter wrote: > > The standard SATA interface is one port, one drive. (There are > > exceptions which are not worth talking about here.) If you can > > plug in a fairly cheap PCIe to SATA card, you can get 2 or 4 or > > 8 more

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:44:24 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > I've been dragging my feet on updating from stretch to buster, > waiting for 1TB SSD's to get affordable. Now they almost have. > > But I do have a pair of 500 GB SamSung EVO 860's and one empty sata > socket. Spares for the rest of my

Re: using scanbd

2021-07-28 Thread mick crane
well that's embarrassing all seems to be working now with "systemctl start scanbd" sorry about that. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 July 2021 11:04:59 Dan Ritter wrote: on list, I am subbed. > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > This, my main machine that backs up 5 others here, but does that > > with drives not involved with daily stuffs, and of course I'm > > gradually replacing spinning rust with

Re: configurar dos monitores en debian 10 (Gnome) escalado

2021-07-28 Thread Camaleón
El 2021-07-28 a las 17:33 +0200, miguel angel gonzalez escribió: > El dom, 25 jul 2021 a las 2:26, Felix Perez () > escribió: > > > El sáb, 24 de jul. de 2021 a la(s) 12:15, miguel angel gonzalez > > (mangelgonza...@gmail.com) escribió: > > > > > > Hola, > > > > > > Recientemente he comprado

Re: configurar dos monitores en debian 10 (Gnome) escalado

2021-07-28 Thread miguel angel gonzalez
Hola, Estoy probando con la herramienta en consola, y gráfica. En consola con el comando: xrandr --output HDMI-0 --scale 1.4x1.4 Veo que parte de la pantalla principal sale en la pantalla nueva, a pesar de verse completamente en la que ya tenía la ventana, es decir, superpone parte en la

Re: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Jul 2021 at 11:16:42 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > On 27/07/21 7:14 pm, Jupiter777 wrote: > > I am in the middle of installing buster 10.10.x on my computer. > > > > I see that I can take screenshots as the dialog boxes tell me: > > > >   Screenshot Saved as /var/log/ > > > > But

Re: encrypt/lvm issue during install.... [WAS: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Jul 2021 at 14:22:52 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 13:31 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 07:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:05:54PM -0600, Jupiter777 wrote: > > > > so loop-with-no-exit went like: > > > > > > > > > > > > --

Re: how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > This, my main machine that backs up 5 others here, but does that with > drives not involved with daily stuffs, and of course I'm gradually > replacing spinning rust with SSD's. > > I've been dragging my feet on updating from stretch to buster, waiting

Re: Alternativa lliure a Dropbox/Dribe: syncthing? nextcloud?

2021-07-28 Thread Xavier De Yzaguirre i Maura
Bon dia, Jo utilitzo syncthinc per actualitzar el contingut de determinades carpetes entre dos D11 (portàtil i escriptori) i un MOS 11.6 del 2008 al que amb uns escripts bash pujo i baixo selectivament fitxers de l’icloud que puc consultar arreu amb iphone, i certament em va molt bé. El dc, 28

Re: using scanbd

2021-07-28 Thread mick crane
On 2021-07-28 04:52, mick crane wrote: OK pressing the scanner button works if I start scanbd with -m switch "scanbd -m" but if start scanbd with systemctl "systemctl start scanbd.service" It does not work. I also cannot start scanbm.socket. "/usr/lib/systemd/system/scanbd.service" [Unit] 22

how best to do

2021-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; This, my main machine that backs up 5 others here, but does that with drives not involved with daily stuffs, and of course I'm gradually replacing spinning rust with SSD's. I've been dragging my feet on updating from stretch to buster, waiting for 1TB SSD's to get affordable.

Re: Bluetooth: Disabling ertm via sysfsutils

2021-07-28 Thread Christian Britz
Reco wrote: 1) First, if all you need is modify a kernel module option - you do not need to tinker with /sys. Just create a file like this: cat /etc/modprobe.d/bluetooth-ertm.conf << EOF options bluetooth disable_ertm=1 EOF update-initramfs -k all -u Great, straight forward and works, thanks!

Re: encrypt/lvm issue during install.... [WAS: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 13:31 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 07:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:05:54PM -0600, Jupiter777 wrote: > > > so loop-with-no-exit went like: > > > > > > > > > -- installer recognized the disk, OK > > > > > > -- did the 1gb /boot

Re: Bluetooth: Disabling ertm via sysfsutils

2021-07-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 02:30:20PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > If I manually restart sysfsconf.service it works! systemd manages to start sysfsconf before starting systemd-modules-load, so that sysfs entry does not exist at the time of boot. This is expected from systemd SYSV

Re: encrypt/lvm issue during install.... [WAS: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 07:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:05:54PM -0600, Jupiter777 wrote: > > so loop-with-no-exit went like: > > > > > > -- installer recognized the disk, OK > > > > -- did the 1gb /boot ext2 non-encrypted configured , OK /dev/sda7 > > > > --

Bluetooth: Disabling ertm via sysfsutils

2021-07-28 Thread Christian Britz
To be able to connect a xbox wireless controller via bluetooth, I have to disable a bt feature called ertm via sysfs. I installed sysfsutils and added the following line to /etc/sysfs.conf: module/bluetooth/parameters/disable_ertm = 1 It seems that enabling of this parameter at boot time

Re: encrypt/lvm issue during install.... [WAS: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:05:54PM -0600, Jupiter777 wrote: > so loop-with-no-exit went like: > > > -- installer recognized the disk, OK > > -- did the 1gb /boot ext2 non-encrypted configured , OK /dev/sda7 > > -- 150gb partition, planned to be / with everything in it, >recognized by

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub > Again clueless of why you say that. > Other than some rack server, Modern x86 servers happen to use UEFI too. Modern ARM64 servers do it too.

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 5:22 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Polyna, > I prefer clean install because my old computer often crashes after updating. Maybe you could share your computer information on the group and I'm sure many of fellow user will be glad to help you solve your problems. If it does crash

Re[2]: Alternativa lliure a Dropbox/Dribe: syncthing? nextcloud?

2021-07-28 Thread Conrad Pueyo
Compartir, a escala de que el contingut el tingui només l'usuari, però que els altres puguin accedir, no. Per això no. Jo per exemple, el que tinc muntat a casa es: Tinc una carpeta on tinc una selecció de música pels mòbils de la família En ella vaig ficant totes aquelles cançons que ens agraden

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 5:22 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Polyna, > I prefer clean install because my old computer often crashes after updating. If you want to do a clean install every two days because new software will require you to update your Debian box, then it's your choice. But I use my system

Re: Alternativa lliure a Dropbox/Dribe: syncthing? nextcloud?

2021-07-28 Thread Narcis Garcia
Aleshores entenc que el Syncthing va molt bé per a fer la part essencial del què fa el Nextcloud amb les carpetes d'un mateix (del propi compte d'accés), però pel què comentes no es podria assignar unes carpetes a un grup d'usuaris o que un usuari comparteixi alguna cosa seva. Correcte? El

Re: Debmirror

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 10:45 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Just a Linux advice/s I read 10years ago + -. Time goes by and things change. Advice from 10 years ago can even be bad when applied today. I used to create multiple partitions that were needed years ago. But by doing so today, I don't gain

Re: Signatures digitals per una ILP (la del Montseny, però podria ser qualsevol altra)

2021-07-28 Thread Narcis Garcia
[mode ironia ON] Que s'utilitzin les eines i protocols de la UE és molt armoniós, però antieconòmic i no respecta la diversitat cultural. Que cada estat, o fins i tot cada comunitat o municipi, elabori el seu propi sistema desenvolupa un fet diferencial que incrementa les relacions locals. A més,

Re[2]: Alternativa lliure a Dropbox/Dribe: syncthing? nextcloud?

2021-07-28 Thread Conrad Pueyo
Crec que el Syncthing tindria mes el proposit de que el client tingui el mateix contingut en local que en el servidor. Per aixo no ho veig tan viable. Va molt be, la veritat, pero com a replicant de contingut, no com per compartir carpetes -- Mensaje original -- De: "fadelkon" Para:

Re: Alternativa lliure a Dropbox/Dribe: syncthing? nextcloud?

2021-07-28 Thread fadelkon
El 28 de juliol de 2021 7:48:25 CEST, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda ha escrit: >Bones!! > >El 27/7/21 a les 19:14, Joan ha escrit: >> >> Havia pensat en posar un Nextcloud, i donar accés als clients perquè >> vegin els fitxers del seu directori d'usuari, que jo faria >sincronitzar >> amb la còpia

Re: Alternativa lliure a Dropbox/Dribe: syncthing? nextcloud?

2021-07-28 Thread Narcis Garcia
Tinc experiència amb NextCloud, que utilitza WebDAV com a protocol. NextCloud funciona a base d'extensions, de manera que el pots deixar bastant «pelat» per a què només es dediqui a la sincronització de carpetes. El servei de Nextcloud es pot instal·lar com una aplicació web qualsevol. Veig que a

Re: Phone

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 10:01 a.m., Curt wrote: > On 2021-07-26, Charlie wrote: >> >> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:49:37 +0100 Joe Informed me about Re: >> Phone >> >>> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:57:04 +0300 >>> Gunnar Gervin wrote: >>> Will buy phone zoon, then play with this android for fun &