I've installed distcc and gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu (and
g++-aarch64-linux-gnu), but the symlinks in /usr/lib/distcc are not
created. Is there something else I need to do, or is this perhaps a bug?
I've seen https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919704, but it
looks like it should be
Hello,
Your graphic card can probably be managed by:
- Nvidia closed-source driver (including firmware):
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
- Nouveau open-source driver (automatically loaded by default for your
hardware) with a firmware you have to install (probably the
Hi,
(there is at least one answer which was not Cc'ed to you as follow-up under
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/msg00358.html
)
Pat Pathmanathan wrote:
> I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 :
> [...] debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso [...]
> 'Starting
On Sun, May 9, 2021, 1:18 PM Pat Pathmanathan
wrote:
> I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 :
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/
>
> https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/ports/current/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
>
> The installation went fine.
Pat Pathmanathan composed on 2021-05-09 19:02 (UTC+0100):
> I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 :
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/
> https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/ports/current/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
> The installation went fine.
On Lu, 05 apr 21, 17:03:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> Hint: the mini.iso does support installing to the same storage device
> used to start the installer. It also needs internet access for basically
> everything, so you might need a way to pass firmware to the installer in
> ca
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2021 13:29:47 -04 didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor
> >> is a>>
> >> powerpc64 Big Indian, not a
Le 02/05/2021 à 19:29, didier gaumet a écrit :
(I have almost wrote "inglish")
sorry : "written"
There: absent-minded ;-)
Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a
powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...]
That's "Endian", not "Indian".
On Sun, May 2, 2021, 11:51 AM Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> >
> >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor
> >> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a
On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
>
>> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor
>> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...]
>
> That's "Endian", not "Indian".
8080
Hi,
Pat Pathmanathan wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the
> 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ [..]
> I was
> able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem.
Possibly you want Debian for "ppc64" or "powerpc".
At least the boot
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a
> powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...]
That's "Endian", not "Indian".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
Hello,
From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a
powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian and nowadays the
rare Linux ditros that still propose a powerpc64 portage do it for Litte
Indian (ppc64el) as Debian do. So Debian is not compatible with your
On 5/2/21 3:21 PM, Pat Pathmanathan wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the
> 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ image to CD on a newer iMac (2017).
> When I boot the iMac G5 holding the ‘Option’ key down with the CD
> inserted, the G5 doesn’t recognise the CD
I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the
'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ image to CD on a newer iMac (2017).
When I boot the iMac G5 holding the ‘Option’ key down with the CD inserted,
the G5 doesn’t recognise the CD as a bootable CD. I then did the same with
the
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 15:11, Brian () escribió:
>
> "Umm, well" is hardly an adequate reponse to Andrei POPESCU's
> suggestion. If you are waiting for someone like me to step up,
> you will be waiting a long time.
>
> Users employ the wiki to write what they feel comfortable about,
> not to
On Tue 27 Apr 2021 at 11:55:52 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 2:43, Andrei POPESCU
> () escribió:
> > On Lu, 26 apr 21, 20:34:58, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> > > It would be great if someone could repost this tutorial at the Debian
> > > Wiki.
> >
> > Feel free to
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 2:43, Andrei POPESCU
() escribió:
> On Lu, 26 apr 21, 20:34:58, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> > It would be great if someone could repost this tutorial at the Debian
> > Wiki.
>
> Feel free to do so yourself.
Umm, well. That will have to wait.
If someone else can repost
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 11:44, escribió:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:41:16AM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> [...]
> > > A civilised mail user agent will show MIME part boundaries [...]
>
> > Thanks. I'm not worrying anymore for the mail messages,
> > but the problem is the Debian Lists
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:41:16AM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
[...]
> > A civilised mail user agent will show MIME part boundaries [...]
> Thanks. I'm not worrying anymore for the mail messages,
> but the problem is the Debian Lists archive's web interface
> that doesn't work as a
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 11:24, escribió:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:16:44AM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > On the other hand, as Mr. Davidson said, it is not very clear
> > where do one file starts and where do it ends [...]
>
> A civilised mail user agent will show MIME
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 10:35, David Wright
() escribió:
>
> On Mon 26 Apr 2021 at 22:16:34 (-0400), Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> >
> > I saw at the Debian Lists' archive
> > that my attached files were not
> > shown as attached (as in the
> > BTS archive), but instead as inserted
> > into the
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 7:40, davidson () escribió:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 davidson wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> >> Is there some other way to attach the files correctly?
> >
> > I don't know of any way to get the debian-user list's web archive to
> > treat attached
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:16:44AM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
[...]
> On the other hand, as Mr. Davidson said, it is not very clear
> where do one file starts and where do it ends [...]
A civilised mail user agent will show MIME part boundaries in
a suitable way. I think you don't need
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 7:33, davidson () escribió:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I saw at the Debian Lists' archive that my attached files were not
> > shown as attached (as in the BTS archive), but instead as inserted
> > into the body of the message.
>
> I
El mar, 27 abr 2021 a las 2:45, Andrei POPESCU
() escribió:
> On Lu, 26 apr 21, 22:16:34, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I saw at the Debian Lists' archive
> > that my attached files were not
> > shown as attached (as in the
> > BTS archive), but instead as inserted
> > into the body
On Mon 26 Apr 2021 at 22:16:34 (-0400), Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
>
> I saw at the Debian Lists' archive
> that my attached files were not
> shown as attached (as in the
> BTS archive), but instead as inserted
> into the body of the message.
>
> Is there some other way to attach
> the files
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> Is there some other way to attach
> the files correctly?
> Would it work and could I send the
> attachments with HTML?
How it works is just perfect - you do not have to care about it.
I like it this way and obviously many many others.
In your mail it would show up as
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 davidson wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
Hi.
I saw at the Debian Lists' archive that my attached files were not
shown as attached (as in the BTS archive), but instead as inserted
into the body of the message.
[dd]
Is there some other way to attach
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
Hi.
I saw at the Debian Lists' archive that my attached files were not
shown as attached (as in the BTS archive), but instead as inserted
into the body of the message.
I have not examined your how-to in detail, but from brief examination
I am
On Lu, 26 apr 21, 22:16:34, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I saw at the Debian Lists' archive
> that my attached files were not
> shown as attached (as in the
> BTS archive), but instead as inserted
> into the body of the message.
This is just how the archive software shows them, they
On Lu, 26 apr 21, 20:34:58, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
>
> It would be great if someone could repost this tutorial at the Debian
> Wiki.
Feel free to do so yourself.
Kind regards,
Andrei
--
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Hi.
I saw at the Debian Lists' archive
that my attached files were not
shown as attached (as in the
BTS archive), but instead as inserted
into the body of the message.
Is there some other way to attach
the files correctly?
Would it work and could I send the
attachments with HTML?
Well, thanks
ot;
If you ask yourself why you need to do this, it is because Windows can not copy
the symlinks to the USB stick. We will be creating those files again later.
1.5.12. You backed up your important files from your USB stick at step 1.5.1.,
right? After this process gets finished, all your files tha
El jue, 25 mar 2021 a las 21:11, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
() escribió:
> (...lots of things...)
Hi.
I'm going to post a tutorial to do what I did to achieve the
installation of Debian
in the USB stick from Windows' NTFS-formatted partition.
Please, review it and give your opinions/suggestions/fixes.
On 2021-04-23 at 17:26 +0100, Morgan Read wrote:
> Is there any method to allow v4 and v5 to be both installed together?
Both packages have the same name, so the package manager treats them as
the same. Rename the package name of the old version (e.g. to master-
pdf-editor-4) and you should be
On 23/04/2021 6:20 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I suggest you look inside those .deb files: they seem to both name the
> package they install `master-pdf-editor` but dpkg does not allow
> installing different versions of a given package at the same time.
> So you'll need to edit
> You probably want to look inside the control archives rather than the
> data archives:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_%28file_format%29
>
> If both control archive files are using a package name of
> "master-pdf-editor", you can try Stefan's suggestion of renaming one
> and seeing if
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:48:13 +0100
Morgan Read wrote:
> On 23/04/2021 6:20 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I suggest you look inside those .deb files: they seem to both name the
> > package they install `master-pdf-editor` but dpkg does not allow
> > installing differen
>
> The packages that Code Industry provides are clearly designed to get rid
> of v4, obviously because they now want people to buy those features.
> However, installing v4 over v5 never used to remove v5...
>
> So, I wonder if alien might have done something in the transli
k inside those .deb files: they seem to both name the
package they install `master-pdf-editor` but dpkg does not allow
installing different versions of a given package at the same time.
So you'll need to edit those `.deb` to change the package name from
`master-pdf-editor` to (say) `master-pdf-editor4` a
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:22:48 +0100
Morgan Read wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Some little time ago I made a jump from another distro into Debian.
>
> When I made that jump I took with me a few proprietary applications that
> I make a lot of use of. One in particular is causing me a bit of a
>
Hello Folks,
Some little time ago I made a jump from another distro into Debian.
When I made that jump I took with me a few proprietary applications that
I make a lot of use of. One in particular is causing me a bit of a
headache - Master PDF Editor by Code Industry:
Hello Folks,
Some little time ago I made a jump from another distro into Debian.
When I made that jump I took with me a few proprietary applications that
I make a lot of use of. One in particular is causing me a bit of a
headache - Master PDF Editor by Code Industry:
El vie, 9 abr 2021 a las 17:43, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
() escribió:
>
> El lun, 5 abr 2021 a las 10:04, Andrei POPESCU
> () escribió:
> > Hint: the mini.iso does support installing to the same storage device
> > used to start the installer. It also needs internet access for bas
n't use the USB stick to put the ISO image on it.
Why not?
Hint: the mini.iso does support installing to the same storage device
used to start the installer. It also needs internet access for basically
everything, so you might need a way to pass firmware to the installer in
case the firmware can't
El jue, 25 mar 2021 a las 21:11, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
() escribió:
> I'm trying to install Debian 10.8 on a USB stick, and it is not Debian Live,
> from a hard disk that has Windows 7 installed. Since I don't have
> any CD or DVD, and I need the USB stick to install Debian on it,
> I can't use
Hi.
I'm trying to install Debian 10.8 on a USB stick, and it is not Debian Live,
from a hard disk that has Windows 7 installed. Since I don't have
any CD or DVD, and I need the USB stick to install Debian on it,
I can't use the USB stick to put the ISO image on it.
I have downloaded the first
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:52:49PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have written a howto on installing GRUB on an USB stick to make it
> bootable both on UEFI and legacy MBR systems.
Thanks, that sounds very useful :)
Cheers
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Hi.
I have written a howto on installing GRUB on an USB stick to make it
bootable both on UEFI and legacy MBR systems.
It allows to install multiple ISO images of live distros as plain files
in an unobtrusive directory while keeping the stick usable to carry
around vacation photos, torrents
On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:00:09 -0800
"M.R.P. zensky" wrote:
> One problem that I am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I
> use a network card. I don’t I use home based wifi which I don’t see
> an option for this.
Debian considers wifi to be just another network card.
However, many
On Sat 20 Feb 2021 at 16:00:09 (-0800), M.R.P. zensky wrote:
> Hello I have successfully installed ubuntu linux on my system but I want to
> use Debian. I download the iso file from their home page. One problem that I
> am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I use a network card. I
>
If Debian can't detect your network card, I suggest using Debian DVD iso to
install Debian, and then deal with the network card.
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/
You need "debian-10.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso". It can be used to install Debian
without a network connection.
You
Hello I have successfully installed ubuntu linux on my system but I want to
use Debian. I download the iso file from their home page. One problem that I am
having is the Debian install menu asks for if I use a network card. I don’t I
use home based wifi which I don’t see an option for this.
. Disconnect all other drives while experimenting with Debian. You
will make mistakes, and recovery is non-trivial and time consuming at best.
Start by installing Debian onto a USB flash drive. These are cheap and,
in most x86 PC's, you can install Debian onto a USB flash drive just
like any other
Semih Ozlem wrote:
> Is it possible and sensible to install debian or a linux system to an
> external hard drive connected to a system via the usb port, while keeping
> the current hard drive on the machine unchanged?
As a temporary measure, this is reasonable. USB-connected drives
tend to be
Hi everyone,
Is it possible and sensible to install debian or a linux system to an
external hard drive connected to a system via the usb port, while keeping
the current hard drive on the machine unchanged?
Where does one install grub2 and is grub2 to be installed before or after
the installation
Richard Owlett wrote:
> That works.
> Your choice of directory names in the path to the files extracted from
> each ISO broke my current mental logjam.
...
yes, that's what i did, years ago, so the added parts in the
line about security weren't needed back then. glad it works. :)
On 2021-02-06, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 7:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> > On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>> > you should look under the daily snapshots.
>> > For armhf that would be
>> >
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 7:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> > you should look under the daily snapshots.
> > For armhf that would be
> >
On 02/05/2021 01:05 PM, songbird wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
...
One can purchase a flash drive containing ISO images of all installation
DVDs of the desired architecture. It is straight forward to do a default
install after copying dvd1.iso to a flash drive.
...
Are the instructions to
That works.
Your choice of directory names in the path to the files extracted from
each ISO broke my current mental logjam.
Thanks
On 02/05/2021 10:21 AM, Jeremy Andrews wrote:
Hi Richard,
Here's what I would probably do:
- create directories on your USB or partition for each of the DVDs
On 2/5/21 9:54 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to do custom Debian install on a machine *WITHOUT*:
1. functional mechanical CD/DVD drive.
2. without internet access.
One can purchase a flash drive containing ISO images of all
installation DVDs of the desired architecture. It is
Richard Owlett wrote:
...
> One can purchase a flash drive containing ISO images of all installation
> DVDs of the desired architecture. It is straight forward to do a default
> install after copying dvd1.iso to a flash drive.
...
> Are the instructions to create a "local repository" composed of
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:54:55AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I wish to do custom Debian install on a machine *WITHOUT*:
> > 1. functional mechanical CD/DVD drive.
> > 2. without internet access.
>
> Things I learned today - someone wants us to make a 128GB
flash drive with the .iso files for DVD1 to DVD3 (or 1-16 if you
have them): Write DVD1 to another
flash drive and use it to boot and install. For myself, I would always use the
text mode installer and the expert
mode: do a very simple install, installing the minimum you can get away wit
Hi Richard,
Here's what I would probably do:
- create directories on your USB or partition for each of the DVDs
- extract each ISO, and place the contents in the directories
- if using a separate partition, mount it in your fstab at a location such
as /mnt/deb, or if using a USB, just make sure
I wish to do custom Debian install on a machine *WITHOUT*:
1. functional mechanical CD/DVD drive.
2. without internet access.
One can purchase a flash drive containing ISO images of all installation
DVDs of the desired architecture. It is straight forward to do a default
install after
On 2021-01-29, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>> you should look under the daily snapshots.
>> For armhf that would be
>>
Hi!
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> you should look under the daily snapshots.
> For armhf that would be
> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/
I downloaded the two-part image from
Has anyone successfully installed anbox on debian. I have tried a couple
of different ways starting with the debian stable package. The debian
stable anbox package requires a lot of manual installation of support
packages. I never did get things to work. I finally loaded the snap
version which
Hi,
"Rick Thomas" wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> > Next thing to test -- can I install bullseye the same way?
>
> So I tried installing bullseye from [1] which, incidentally is dated Dec 2,
> 2020. Isn't this kinda old for a &
e by one looking
for an active bootable partition containing a file called "boot.scr" which it
then executes to perform the remainder of the boot process (mostly to load the
kernel and initrd , then pass control to them).
*) I wonder if it would be possible to change the "boo
On Wed 20 Jan 2021 at 20:31:53 (-0800), Dan Hitt wrote:
> […]
> The second question is whether there's a way, from grub (grub2, actually),
> of dropping down to the bios. I imagine this is quite impossible, but if
> i'm wrong, please let me know. The reason i would like to do this is that
> it
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA
> > drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot,
> > it boots into the installer again, rather than the
On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA
> drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot,
> it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system.
>
> Here's what I did, and what I observed:
>
>
On Mi, 27 ian 21, 20:03:22, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA
> drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot,
> it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system.
>
> Here's what I did, and what I
On 28/1/21 12:03 pm, Rick Thomas wrote:
I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA drive.
Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, it boots into
the installer again, rather than the installed system.
Here's what I did, and what I observed:
*)
I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA drive.
Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, it boots into
the installer again, rather than the installed system.
Here's what I did, and what I observed:
*) I downloaded the two parts of the SDcard
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:25:56PM -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed anbox on debian.
Yes, a simple "apt install anbox" just did it for me.
> I have tried a couple of different ways starting with the debian
> stable package.
I've needed to do two manual steps:
1)
Has anyone successfully installed anbox on debian. I have tried a couple
of different ways starting with the debian stable package. The debian
stable anbox package requires a lot of manual installation of support
packages. I never did get things to work. I finally loaded the snap
version which
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 11:08:56 (-0800), Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:02 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Dan Hitt wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:33 AM Brian wrote:
> > > >
> > > >menuentry 'Debian 10' {
> > > >linux /boot/vmlinuz
> > > >initrd /boot/initrd.gz
> > > >
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 23:22:32 +, Brian wrote:
> menuentry 'Debian 10' {
> linux (hdX,msdosY)/boot/vmlinuz
> initrd (hdX,msdosY)/boot/initrd.gz
> }
>
> or use a "search" line.
The latter might br easiest for you.
Put linux, initrd.gz and the ISO file in /boot on the Linux
On 2021-01-20 20:31, Dan Hitt wrote:
I have a machine that currently has linux mint 16.04 on it.
I would like to install debian 10 on it, but the installer really
wants access to a cd drive, and one just isn't available.
However, the linux mint 16.04 system does have grub2 on it.
So it is
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 13:06:25 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM Brian wrote:
>
> > On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 09:34:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:33 AM Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed 20 Jan 2021 at 20:31:53 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > > >
>
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 16:20:10 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Brian composed on 2021-01-21 11:33 (UTC):
>
> > David Wright's advice to use the hd-media kernel and initrd is your way
> > forward. The simplest GRUB stanza possible is
>
> >menuentry 'Debian 10' {
> >linux /boot/vmlinuz
> >
Dan Hitt composed on 2021-01-21 13:06 (UTC-0800):
> ...i only have access to
> the bios with great difficulty. If i could get into the bios, i could
> change the boot order, and possibly boot from usb. However, it is very
> difficult to interrupt the boot process successfully (by pressing F2),
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:58 PM Erwan David wrote:
> Le 21/01/2021 à 21:52, Erwan David a écrit :
> > Le 21/01/2021 à 21:46, Brian a écrit :
> >> On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 11:08:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> Now, Brian said that "the installer's initrd does not contain a loop
Brian composed on 2021-01-21 11:33 (UTC):
> David Wright's advice to use the hd-media kernel and initrd is your way
> forward. The simplest GRUB stanza possible is
>menuentry 'Debian 10' {
>linux /boot/vmlinuz
>initrd /boot/initrd.gz
>}
I'm having trouble thinking of how this
Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM Brian wrote:
> > > I have a machine that currently has linux mint 16.04 on it
> >
> > I assummed that that this was the only partition and that vmlinuz and
> > initrd.gz would go in /boot. How many partitions do you have?
> >
>
> Thanks Brian
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM Brian wrote:
> On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 09:34:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:33 AM Brian wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed 20 Jan 2021 at 20:31:53 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > menuentry "debian-10-iso" {
> > > >
Le 21/01/2021 à 21:52, Erwan David a écrit :
> Le 21/01/2021 à 21:46, Brian a écrit :
>> On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 11:08:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Now, Brian said that "the installer's initrd does not contain a loop
>>> module", so that would indicate that if i want to use
>>>
Le 21/01/2021 à 21:46, Brian a écrit :
> On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 11:08:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Now, Brian said that "the installer's initrd does not contain a loop
>> module", so that would indicate that if i want to use
>> debian-10.7.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso, i'll need to get it on
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 11:08:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
[...]
> Now, Brian said that "the installer's initrd does not contain a loop
> module", so that would indicate that if i want to use
> debian-10.7.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso, i'll need to get it on the disk
> (presumably by just unpacking it
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 09:34:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:33 AM Brian wrote:
>
> > On Wed 20 Jan 2021 at 20:31:53 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > menuentry "debian-10-iso" {
> > > set isofile="/USER/iso/debian-10.7.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso"
> > >
On Mi, 20 ian 21, 20:31:53, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I have a machine that currently has linux mint 16.04 on it.
>
> I would like to install debian 10 on it, but the installer really wants
> access to a cd drive, and one just isn't available.
Any kind of medium that can be used by your motherboard to
Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:02 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > also have to be a search line like David has (search --no-floppy ..)
> > to
> > > identify just where '/boot' is (???).
> >
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB#Startup_on_systems_using_BIOS_firmware
> >
> >
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:02 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> Dan Hitt wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:33 AM Brian wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >menuentry 'Debian 10' {
> > >linux /boot/vmlinuz
> > >initrd /boot/initrd.gz
> > >}
> > >
> > > --
> > > Brian.
> > >
> > >
> > Brian, thanks so
On Mi, 20 ian 21, 20:31:53, Dan Hitt wrote:
>
> Or perhaps there's some other way to approach the problem? For example,
> i've already created a partition to hold the debian system i want to put on
> the machine. Is there some way of hand-populating it?
Yes, either debootstrap (used also by
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