> On Apr 14, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Reco wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 01:24:32AM -0400, Kieran Smyth wrote:
>> For reasons unknown to me, synaptic uninstalled itself about three weeks
>> ago. I am using Buster on the desktop, with MATE as my desktop environment.
>
> Synaptic was removed fro
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 6:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a
>> more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the
>> E1000 drivers.
>>
>> I
I recently bought an intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1. You can see a description of the
product at Newegg:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102213
I’m trying to install Debian Stretch on it
debian-9.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
and (later)
firmware-9.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
I mad
> On Nov 18, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Reco wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:56:27AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>> On 11/14/18, Reco wrote:
>>>>> If you're content with losing all this metadata in your backup - the
>> On 11/14/18, Reco wrote:
>>> If you're content with losing all this metadata in your backup - there
>>> are rsync, cpio or tar. Or all those ‘backup solutions' based on those.
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:52:57PM -0500, Lee wrote:
>> Do I need all that metadata? This is for me at home so i
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
>> You're probably going to receive as many different opinions as there
>> are different people responding, but my recommendation in nearly any
>> situation is to have a reasonable /boot and sw
On Oct 7, 2018, at 3:36 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
wrote:
> On 07-10-2018 07:11, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On further study, it seems that (in Debian Stretch, at least) the root KSK’s
>> used by dnsmasq are taken from the file /usr/share/dns/root.ds, which is
>> provided by
H…
On further study, it seems that (in Debian Stretch, at least) the root KSK’s
used by dnsmasq are taken from the file /usr/share/dns/root.ds, which is
provided by the package dns-root-data; and that package seems to be part of the
standard Stretch installation. That file lists both keys
On Oct 4, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:15:52PM -0400, Default User wrote:
>> Hi, Henning.
>>
>> I am running Unstable, with 4.18.0-2 amd-64 kernel, all updated.
>>
>> I don't know anything about bind. How do I know what bind version I am
>> running, and if I nee
On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> /bin/rm: cannot remove
> '/var/cache/rsnapshot/halfday.1/wb5agz/home/usr/lib/i386
> -linux-gnu': Transport endpoint is not connected
In your rsnapshot.conf file, is “use_lazy_deletes” set to 1? If so, the final
delete part of “rsnapsho
On Sep 17, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> "netinst" is supposed to be used by more people for installing than
> "live", and it is the much smaller download.
Indeed, the fact that it is a smaller download is the main reason why netinst
is preferred. It’s a good thing to minimize t
On Aug 25, 2018, at 1:15 AM, Subhadip Ghosh wrote:
>
> On Saturday 25 August 2018 01:17 PM, Dekks Herton wrote:
>> Subhadip Ghosh writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my
>>> Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the
On Jul 28, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, David Wright wrote:
>> On Sat 28 Jul 2018 at 10:57:45 (-0300), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>>> rbthomas@small:~$ lsblk
12 5120 mq-deadline
> 128 1280B
> `-mmcblk2p205120 512 5120 mq-deadline
> 128 1280B
> rbthomas@small:~$
Note the alignment values of “-1” for the lvm entries but not for the GPT
partition or the whole disk.
Why do you suppo
On Jul 27, 2018, at 8:19 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 27 Jul 2018 at 18:46:02 (-0700), Rick Thomas wrote:
>> When booting, I get 12 error messages similar to the following (three groups
>> of four, each group with a different “start” value and corresponding minor
>>
Alignment ensures optimal use of your drive, sometimes software gets this wrong
and compensates by using a larger cache, check
cat /sys/block/sd?/queue/optimal_io_size
to correct that you have to re format (likely both the GPT/LVM layers) look
into --dataalignment and --dataalignmentoffset of
When booting, I get 12 error messages similar to the following (three groups of
four, each group with a different “start” value and corresponding minor device)
> Jul 24 03:40:08 small kernel: device-mapper: table: 254:1: adding target
> device sda1 caused an alignment inconsistency: physical_blo
On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
> Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat emptor.
Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there been reports of problems?
Enjoy!
Rick
> On Jun 10, 2018, at 1:44 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Greetings all;
>
> I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying
> the /dev/sdc slot.
>
> What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, and
> swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other d
Hi Thomas,
On Jun 3, 2018, at 1:26 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Instead, I used
>> firmware-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>> to avoid any possible alpha/testing anomalies.
>
> Normally i'd say that there is no decisive differe
On Jun 3, 2018, at 12:45 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> So, I was beginning to wonder if I were going crazy. In any case, I tried
>> part (a) with “firmware-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-DVD-1.iso”. And guess
>> what! That worked too, just the same as the
Well… I have some results. Just not the kind I was expecting! (see below)
On Jun 2, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I have a confession to make…
>
> On Jun 2, 2018, at 6:09 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
>> Rick Thomas reported that the boot process of
>> f
I have a confession to make…
On Jun 2, 2018, at 6:09 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Rick Thomas reported that the boot process of
> firmware-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> fails with
> Incorrect CD-ROM detected
> after it was re-partitioned to GPT.
On the advice of another
On May 27, 2018, at 5:38 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i typo'ed:
>> deletion of GPT partition 2 because it overlaps
>> with the EFI partition,
>
> Partition 1 needs to be delted. Number 2 is the EFI partition.
>
> Further it comes to me that the gdisk session is best done one the
> US
On May 27, 2018, at 3:57 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> Can you suggest any way to get around the problem?
>
> Sorry to jump in, but I had a similar experience with Pi few years ago.
>
> I see this board supports network boot - for experimenting i
On May 27, 2018, at 3:50 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> I’m puzzled… Have you tried to boot the installer from a USB stick on a
>> Turbot? Or did you always use a physical DVD drive? What’s the
>> difference between them that causes one to boot and th
On May 27, 2018, at 3:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 27/05/2018 à 00:19, Rick Thomas a écrit :
>> Does anyone have experience installing Debian on a Minnowboard Turbot?
>
> Not me.
>
>> I have a dual-core, single ethernet, Turbot. I’m able to install Debian
>
Thanks! Yes, that confirmed what I had mostly already found by experimentation.
What it didn’t explain was why the same .iso (specifically,
firmware-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-DVD-1.iso) when I burn it to a DVD-R and load
the disk into a DVD drive that is plugged into the USB slot on the Turbot, wi
Does anyone have experience installing Debian on a Minnowboard Turbot?
I have a dual-core, single ethernet, Turbot. I’m able to install Debian
(Buster) from a physical DVD, but when I dd the installer .iso to a USB stick,
and try to install from the stick, the Turbot’s firmware doesn’t see the
On May 17, 2018, at 6:19 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> If using multiple partitions per disk, consider using LVM in future
> as otherwise this sort of thing nearly always becomes a chore.
I strongly second the recommendation to use LVM wherever possible. It greatly
simplifies the process of re-sizi
Yes, rsync has a “-x" option, which does the same thing as for cp: it keeps it
from crossing filesystem boundaries. If you are using rsync to back up whole
filesystems, it’s indispensable.
Rick
On May 12, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Tixy wrote:
> Some commands have options to stop them looking at oth
Hi Kent,
After doing the cp or dd to write the .iso to the USB, do you do a “sync”
before you eject it? Writing to a USB stick can seem to go quite fast, but
that’s because of buffering. Often it takes quite a while (a minute or more
for a very big write on a machine with plenty of RAM) to c
Hi John,
Take a look at the relevant section of the installation manual at:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en
and then download the unofficial non-free installer iso at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
You can put the
ian 9.4 CD1 Installed well (after I got past
> EFI issues, with the help of refind), but I couldn't connect to the Internet,
> due to the Wifi issue.
>
> Many Thanks to Abdullah Ramazankgoglu, Rick Thomas, David Christensen, Dan
> Ritter, Tomas, Brian and Eike for your help.
Hi Kenneth,
Have a look at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
You may find something there that will fit your situation…
Enjoy!
Rick
On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am helping a Friend install Debian 9.4 to an old
> On 2018-03-24 00:34, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>> On 24/03/18 10:20, 😝 😝 wrote:
>>> Hello, I am trying to install Debian 9 as a primary OS on an Acer Aspire 5
>>> Laptop. During the installation process I get a message stating; “Debian 9
>>> Detect network hardware Some of your hardware needs
On Mar 10, 2018, at 7:39 PM, Charles E. Blair wrote:
> Thank you to Rick Thomas and the many others trying
> to help me with my "hwclock incorrectly set".
>
> --
>
> According to aptitude,
Hi Charles,
It would be helpful in diagnosing your problem if you could tell us a little
bit more about your configuration…
Questions:
1) Do you have ntp installed?
2) Is this a dual-boot system? (Windows and Debian)
3) What is the contents of /etc/adjtime?
Enjoy!
Rick
> On Mar 8, 2018, at 10:57 PM, Charles E. Blair wrote:
>
> I have been getting messages
>
>> superblock mount time in future,
>> probably due to hardware clock
>> incorrectly set.
>
> I tried using hwclock to
> fix this, but don't know what I'm
> doing. I created the batch file:
>
> date
On Mar 2, 2018, at 7:51 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Rick Thomas composed on 2018-03-02 04:17 (UTC-0800):
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>> # ybin
>>> ofpath: Device: /dev/ata-ST is not supported
>>> ybin: Unable to determine OpenFirmware path for
>>
Hi Felix!
You’re more likely to get an answer to this on the powerpc list, so I CC’ed
them.
Also, it would be helpful to see what your /etc/yaboot.conf looks like.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Feb 28, 2018, at 1:32 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> # ybin
> ofpath: Device: /dev/ata-ST is not supported
> ybin: Una
On Feb 12, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Christensen quoted that
> richey goldberg wrote:
>>> That's what I've been using to find the files to plug into jigdo-lite
>>> and I get the file not found errors.
>
> "File not found" messages from the user chosen mirror serv
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Tom Dial wrote:
>
>
> On 12/27/2017 04:57 AM, Matthew Crews wrote:
> > I wouldn't trust BTRFS in an enterprise environment, but I have good
> > experience in a personal environment. Make sure you are using modern
> > kernels though (I wouldn't use anything earl
Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications?
If you are using it, I’d like to hear from you about your experiences — good or
bad.
My proposed application is for a small community radio station music library.
We currently have about 5TB of data in a RAID10 using four 3TB drives, wit
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Christian Seiler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 2017-11-07 11:49, schrieb Rick Thomas:
>> How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a
>> couple of openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that
>> are still
How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a couple of
openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that are still doing
useful work. Are they v4t?
Thanks,
Rick
> On Nov 5, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> for the armel port in buster the question
On Oct 16, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Glen B wrote:
> You’re going to get an e-mail from me in ~10 hours or so saying I fixed it;
How did you fix it?
Thanks,
Rick
On Sep 26, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:38:37AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> # The primary network interface
>> auto enP1p3s15f0
>> iface enP1p3s15f0 net dhcp
>
> As Pascal noted, the word before “dhcp" should be "i
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>
> On 09/23/2017 08:56 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up their
>> ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type
>> �allow-hotplug�. When
On Sep 24, 2017, at 6:24 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up
>> their ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type
>> “allow-hotplug”. When I
I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up their
ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type “allow-hotplug”.
When I change that to “auto” the interface comes up at boot with no problem…
The remaining eight machines have no problem with allow-hotplug. (w
Felix and David, our thoughts and prayers are with you this week. Please stay
safe!
Rick
Flash, per se, has never been part of Debian due to it’s being aggressively
proprietary. However, there have been various free or semi-free substitutes.
(I’ve never knowingly installed any such thing, but… )
Should Debian de-support those substitutes? If so, when?
Rick
> On Jul 26, 2017, at
On 06/19/17 05:14, Brian wrote:
The advice at
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd
... Outdated? Incorrect?
At the least, it hasn't been updated for systemd.
Rick
Do you use ntp?
sudo aptitude install ntp
Rick
On Apr 23, 2017, at 6:33 PM, songbird wrote:
> when my computer is turned off the clock
> runs slow.
>
> when my computer is turned on the clock
> runs fast.
>
> so any single adjustment in /etc/adjtime
> doesn't work (as my number of
On Apr 6, 2017, at 3:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I suspect it would not be difficult to implement such a feature again under
> recent systemd versions, but nobody’s done it yet — at least as far as I know.
>
> If I take a stab at implementing such a feature, would you be i
On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:31 PM, FHDATA wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am not currently using debian as linux OS but
> considering it ...
>
>
> If I clean install debian (latest of course) and during
> the install process have its / (system drive)
> encrypted with pass-phrase
>
> then later on, can I
On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> But I kind of understand why systemd, but I wish I could find a good
> cookbook description of how to add or modify a new process.
+1
Indeed:
The main thing I personally have a problem with in systemd that I did not have
a problem with in sysv
On 3/13/2017 12:40 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
the developers decide. Yes, you can install a
On 4/3/2017 4:01 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
Eh? You *do* have a choice of which init system to run; many people
running Debian are still using sysvinit, myself included. The system
handles this just fine; if you file a bug report via e.g. reportbug, it
will automatically detect which init system y
On powerpc (32-bit) machines, the Debian powerpc-utils package provides the
/sbin/autoboot command, which sets the machine’s pmu (power management unit?)
chip to automatically reboot it after a power failure. For 64-bit machines,
such as the PowerMac G5, Apple replaced the pmu by the smu (syst
On Nov 30, 2016, at 3:40 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote:
> Rick Thomas writes:
>
>> Hi Kamil,
>>
>> You’d get a bit more space by configuring your 4 drives as a RAID5
>> array (3TB usable for RAID5, vs 2TB usable for RAID10). The downside
>> of RAID5 is that the
Hi Kamil,
You’d get a bit more space by configuring your 4 drives as a RAID5 array (3TB
usable for RAID5, vs 2TB usable for RAID10). The downside of RAID5 is that the
RAID10 (or the one LV with two RAID1 PVs — they amount to the same thing for
this discussion) can survive loosing two drives at
On Nov 24, 2016, at 2:26 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quartidi 4 frimaire, an CCXXV, Robert Latest a écrit :
>> root@dotcom:~# lvmdiskscan
> ...
>> 15 partitions
>> 0 LVM physical volume whole disks
>> 2 LVM physical volumes
>>
>> ---Still looking good. Now I'm supposed to find the logical
On Oct 23, 2016, at 5:48 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi
wrote:
> How can I list all the packages installed on my system that are
> currently part of the stable distribution but not present in either
> testing or sid?
try something like this
aptitude -F ‘%p' search '~i' | while read x; do aptitude -
I tried to bit torrent download using the torrent file
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha7/amd64/bt-cd/debian-mac-stretch-DI-alpha7-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent
but I get the error message <>
from Transmission.
Any idea what’s up?
Thanks!
Rick
On Oct 4, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Much Open Source software has poor or non-existent
> documentation - documentation is the boring bit to write!!
Don’t know about boring, but documentation is much harder to write than
programs.
The development/testing cycle is *much* longer with
On Sep 28, 2016, at 12:55 PM, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2016-09-28 10:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>> Vincent Lefevre writes:
>>> Things like that should not happen. But this is not a bug in the perl
>>> packages. This is a misfeature of apt / aptitude, which want to remove
>>> packages instead
On Sep 10, 2016, at 3:41 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater
wrote:
>
> Download DVD1. Install a minimum system from it (if it has enough for you,
> build the whole system). In fact, the netinst will work and produce a
> _really_ minimal base system if you don't add a network mirror.
>
> Use apt-key add t
It's a long story, but I need to install a fresh-out-of-the-box Debian
amd64 Lenny system.
I found ftp.us.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ which has installer
images for old Debian releases, including Lenny. The README file says I
need to use
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny
On Aug 30, 2016, at 5:00 PM, Ken Heard wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I would like in my jessie and stretch boxes (one of each, both with
> systemd) to mount /tmp on tmpfs instead of a hard drive partition tmp
> or /dev/mapper/SOL1-tmp. I assumed that to do so I c
Thanks Pascal!
On Aug 16, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 16/08/2016 à 09:03, Rick Thomas a écrit :
>>
>> Aug 14 17:02:41 sheeva systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces...
>> Aug 14 17:02:46 sheeva ifup[893]: /sbin/ifup: waiting for lock on
>>
Anybody else seen this? (Submitted as Bug#834376)
Updated to latest debian Sid
After boot is completed we see:
rbthomas@sheeva:~$ systemctl status networking.service
* networking.service - Raise network interfaces
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor
pr
On Aug 1, 2016, at 5:43 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> On 08/01/2016 12:14 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
>> Try starting « dmesg -w » before plugging the drive, and observe the error
>> messages that the kernel will start throwing out.
>
> 2016-08-01 17:36:18 dpchrist@i72600s ~
> $ dmesg -w
> dmesg
On May 14, 2016, at 3:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:43:11PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I
>> get conflicts.
>>
>> These do not seem to
On May 14, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2016-05-13 18:43 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
>> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I
>> get conflicts.
>>
>> These do not seem to be transient — they have been there
Hi,
When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I get
conflicts.
These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days.
Anybody know what’s going on?
Thanks!
Rick
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libnettle4{a}
> The following p
On Apr 17, 2016, at 5:30 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:48:16 +
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
>> It seems the emotions, even now, are running too high to be simply about
>> "if it ain't broke don't fix it". What am I missing?
>
> You are missing that the change to sy
On Mar 4, 2016, at 5:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2016 03:39:03 jdd wrote:
>
>> Le 04/03/2016 08:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
>>> If memory serves, long, long time ago, "mount" (the system call)
>>> refused to comply unless the directory was empty (kernel 2.6.mumble;
>>> so
Thanks Chris!
On Feb 26, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Christopher Swingley
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Is there some systemd/udev/whatever way to force repeatable naming for the
>> /dev/ttyUSB* devices? I'd be happy if I could get something
Given a machine that provides serial consoles for several other machines via
usb-serial connections:
If the console server is rebooted the usb ports come up in a random order and
it's impossible to tell which /dev/ttyUSB* device points to which client
machine.
Is there some systemd/udev/whate
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:55:38 +0800
lina wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Rick Thomas
> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ha
On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac with
>> Fusion drive?
>>
>> The basic configuration is
>>
>> • 2.8GHz quad-co
On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Jerome BENOIT
wrote:
> There is a Debian website dedicated to MacBookPro machines.
> Ubuntu also provides information.
Thanks! This may be helpful. Can you provide some links?
Enjoy!
Rick
On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote:
> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac with
> Fusion drive?
>
> The basic configuration is
>
> • 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
> • Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200
> • 8GB 1867MHz LPDDR
On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:42 PM, David Wright wrote:
> I hope you eventually get to study the journal even if you don't have
> /var/log/journal. You might post the output from:
The systemd journal is, by default, kept in the directory, /run/log/journal.
Because it is in the "/run" filesystem, it
Does anyone know what the error messages
Does anybody know what is causing the subject error messages?
It almost looks like the DTB is claiming a couple of devices that don't exist
on this hardware... But I don't understand enough of that process to be sure.
Anybody got some clues?
I've attac
Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-dlbd/ it
seems that the full set of software available from Debian for amd64 fits on two
dual-layer Bluray disks. According to Wikipedia a dlbd disk holds 50GB, so you
may need a couple of 64GB Flash drives before you’re do
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
> I still don't
> understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not,
> say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now,
I can’t say why any particular mirror does what it does, but the general rule
is: mi
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
> I started from the very beginning and got it done. I only made one
> mistake, which I will correct--I mistyped the domain name. I still
> don't know what I did wrong the first time I tried installing, but
> it's of no consequence now, as th
https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html
> His family has asked for privacy during this difficult time and we very much
> wish to respect that.
He will be missed…
Rick
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Steve Matzura wrote:
>> didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it.
>
> Do not use any repacker tool with the debian-cd ISOs.
> Rather copy them plainly onto the base device of the USB drive.
> E.g. on
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> This is what
> makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people
> just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone else.
Yeah, it’s a problem; but fortunately there are mailing lists like this one,
and wikis
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote:
>> On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could.
>>
>> "Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the ins
It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs at once:
Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of them and
DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and have the
installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in drives.
Then (th
On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/30/15 12:36:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
>> |-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep
>
> Wouldn't these be en
On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> |Hi Steffan,
>
> (My name is Steffen)
Ooops! Sorry!
> Well, just as already shown in this thread, on my local box it is
>
> ?0[sdaoden@wales nail.git]$ ll /usr/local/libexec
On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation
>>> ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot
>>> drive from the first ISO image, ca
On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:51 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> The system is a bit sluggish; maybe ext4 on lvm wasn't the best choice for it.
> Ross
Make sure the USB stick you’re using is rated for USB3, even if the computer’s
port is just USB2.
The older USB2 sticks tend to be much slower at doing sust
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