Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-15 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:11 AM Latif Shaikh wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have proper steps/documents/links for install Debian 8.7 > Jessie via pxe-server? > > I have tried this link but not luck. > https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall > > Please help for same. > Not a specific answer to

Re: LVM setup with snapshots

2018-05-11 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
to have room. What are different solutions other debian/lvm users have used? Thanks Forest On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Forest Dean Feighner < forest.feigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> > wrote: > &g

Re: LVM setup with snapshots

2018-05-11 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > To me, it seems me the partition is too large to to reduce for > snapshots. > > > > What do you mean ? > > Did you allocate all the available space

LVM setup with snapshots

2018-05-10 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
I'm completely new to lvm. lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert root build-vg -wi-ao 463.52g swap_1 build-vg -wi-ao 2.00g I used the default stretch of an lvm partition with the gnome. To me, it seems me the partition is too

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-06 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM, John wrote: > I have been a user of debian for many years on a number of computers > as well as other GNU/Linux systems. Recently I discovered that my > i686 32bit machine was out of support and they were not supporting > 32bit machines any

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

Re: can't access debian no more

2018-04-10 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:21 AM, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > after an install of windows 10 (need it some a progran can't run on linux), > somewhat seems to be changed on the hd. > The startup lock on the disk control/fs. > regards > > Not much to go on but maybe reinstall grub

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
gmail... I have little to add. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:59 PM, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > > > Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand wrote > > the sendmail config file, lol. > > > > Sh

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-20 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand wrote the sendmail config file, lol. Shell account, of course, at the local ISP. On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Forest Dean Feighner < forest.feigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right on! I used to have an email server in

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
I've found debian to be quit handy on flash store. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:35 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: > >> Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash >> drives that _are_ built for

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Mar 8, 2018 12:22 AM, "Don Armstrong" wrote: Just: sudo apt install grub-imageboot; sudo cp 7wuj43uc.iso /boot/images; sudo update-grub2; then reboot, and select the right cd image in your grub menu. Going OT a little but is that all you have to do to add ISOs to grub!?

Re: An answer - was [Re: Does bash have a tool ?]

2018-03-04 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
I found this to be a good command line text editing reference: https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/04/2018 09:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> My eventual goal is to create a

Re: Debian New Guy

2018-02-17 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
I'm new to systemd/systemctl as well. I had a long delay with NetworkManager-wait-online.service and the delay referred me to systemctl systemctl feels more like working with a database. Interesting system to get acquainted with. On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 1:54 PM, john doe

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Would there be a text based editor for svg? On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 14:40:09 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > >On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>I

Re: What is available for setting services to run levels

2018-02-13 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Perhaps, from man systemctl isolate NAME Start the unit specified on the command line and its dependencies and stop all others. If a unit name with no extension is given, an extension of ".target" will be assumed. This is similar to changing the runlevel

Re: New Kernel fails to boot when laptop is plugged in

2018-02-09 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
You might try some kernel parameters. "ignore_loglevel[KNL] Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. We also add it as printk module parameter, so users could change it

Re: apt-get update error

2018-02-08 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
at 03:26:40PM -0500, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > > W: > > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/ > updates/InRelease: > > The key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the file is > > not readable by user '_apt' executing apt-key. >

apt-get update error

2018-02-08 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Greetings All, After updating libtasn1-6 last night I've started getting and an apt-get update error. W: http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/InRelease: The key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the file is not readable by user '_apt' executing