Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-02-07 Thread Eric S Fraga
Dear all, Apologies but work interfered before I could get back to the EEE PC. Thank you all for the responses. Very helpful. On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Hans wrote: > Also, very nice, you can create a multiboot sd card, and stuck it into > the netbook, so you can boot from it several

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 19:42, Hans wrote: > All are running 1,666 GHz (except the very ealy ones, EEEPC 901, which is > running 1GHz. Mine is one of the early ones, in fact probably the first version released. Thank you for your other longer post: very helpful. I will find a suitable SD

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 08:21:00AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 06.01.2024 um 17:44:41 Uhr schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > > The amd64 installation media now includes the bits needed to start the > > installer on mixed-mode UEFI systems like the Bay Trail platform in > > the X205TA. > > Is that

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-07 Thread Marco Moock
Am 06.01.2024 um 17:44:41 Uhr schrieb Steve McIntyre: > The amd64 installation media now includes the bits needed to start the > installer on mixed-mode UEFI systems like the Bay Trail platform in > the X205TA. Is that documented anywhere? I haven't found any information on this. The wiki only

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
m...@dorfdsl.de wrote: >Am 06.01.2024 um 10:46:56 Uhr schrieb Leandro Noferini: > >> In my Asus EEEPC (X205TA) the bios/uefi is 32 bit but the processor is >> 64 so you need only the grub 32 bit but the remaining of the operative >> system, including kernel, is 64 bit. > >There was another thread

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 10:46:56AM +0100, Leandro Noferini wrote: > Hans writes: > > [...] > > > Most important: It can run all debian things (and more), but note, the > > EEEPC is 32-bit, so you need the 32-bit version of debian. > > In my Asus EEEPC (X205TA) the bios/uefi is 32 bit but the

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-06 Thread Marco Moock
Am 06.01.2024 um 10:46:56 Uhr schrieb Leandro Noferini: > In my Asus EEEPC (X205TA) the bios/uefi is 32 bit but the processor is > 64 so you need only the grub 32 bit but the remaining of the operative > system, including kernel, is 64 bit. There was another thread (maybe on

Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-06 Thread Leandro Noferini
Hans writes: [...] > Most important: It can run all debian things (and more), but note, the > EEEPC is 32-bit, so you need the 32-bit version of debian. In my Asus EEEPC (X205TA) the bios/uefi is 32 bit but the processor is 64 so you need only the grub 32 bit but the remaining of the operative

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:48:39 + Eric S Fraga wrote: > anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of > Debian on an Asus EEE PC? This is a small notebook sized laptop with > Celeron cpu and little space & memory. I've just found one in one of > my boxes and thought

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 06:35:26PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Most important: It can run all debian things (and more), but note, the EEEPC > is 32-bit, so you need the 32-bit version of debian. Which there won't be after the next release, or maybe for the next release. This is not something to

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Hans
There are different cpu's according to the release date. Mostls it is ATOM CPU N-450, but others use N-230 as well. All are running 1,666 GHz (except the very ealy ones, EEEPC 901, which is running 1GHz. Best Hans > > Which CPU does it have?

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Marco Moock
Am 05.01.2024 um 16:48:39 Uhr schrieb Eric S Fraga: > anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of > Debian on an Asus EEE PC? Which CPU does it have?

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2024, 17:48:39 CET schrieb Eric S Fraga: Me again: Second answer: You can easily install debian 32-bit from an USB-stick· it is working just any other computer. Best Hans > Hello, > > anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of > Debian on an

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Tom Furie
Eric S Fraga writes: > anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of > Debian on an Asus EEE PC? This is a small notebook sized laptop with > Celeron cpu and little space & memory. I've just found one in one of > my boxes and thought I'd see if I can make use of it.

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2024, 17:48:39 CET schrieb Eric S Fraga: Hi Eric, the EEEPC was my best friend for many years, although it is rather slow at boot. However, once it is booted up, work can be done well. Mostly I used it for network analysis at my customers and of course office

RE: installing debian on hpe dl360 gen 10 with p408i-a and 331T

2021-11-24 Thread Udi Moshe
Hi dsr, Thanks for the reply. This is troubling information for me. -Original Message- From: Dan Ritter Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2021 12:04 AM To: Udi Moshe Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: installing debian on hpe dl360 gen 10 with p408i-a and 331T Udi Moshe wrote

Re: installing debian on hpe dl360 gen 10 with p408i-a and 331T

2021-11-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Udi Moshe wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to know if the hardware is supported with Debian 9.X, raid volume will > be discovered and the network controller will be working. I have done this with Buster and Bullseye. Save yourself lots of trouble: get the drives configured as individual disks and

Re: installing debian 11.0

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 03:40:18PM +0700, Ngọc Dũng Tạ wrote: > When installing debian 11.0, it asks to scan the additional media "debian > gnu/linux 11.0 _ bullseye _ - official amd64 dvd binary-1", so where can I > get it? > Thanks. > -- Hi, How are you installing Debian 11? What file are

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-10 Thread didier gaumet
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
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.

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-09 Thread Felix Miata
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.

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-05-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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 > case the firmware

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/05/2021 à 19:29, didier gaumet a écrit : (I have  almost wrote "inglish") sorry : "written" There: absent-minded ;-)

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
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".

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Kenneth Parker
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Charlie Gibbs
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
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

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
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

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-29 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
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

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-27 Thread Brian
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

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-27 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
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

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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 -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-26 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
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.

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
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 basically > > everything,

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 mar 21, 21:11:33, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > 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

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-03-28 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
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

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

2021-02-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
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 >> >

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

2021-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
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 > >

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

2021-01-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
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 >>

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

2021-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... "No kernel modules found"

2021-01-29 Thread Holger Wansing
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 "current" Bullseye? That's from

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 12:08 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > 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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-28 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
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: > >

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-27 Thread Jeremy Ardley
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: *)

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread David Wright
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 > > > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
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: > > > > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
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 > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Miata
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),

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Hitt
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Miata
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Ritter
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Hitt
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" { > > > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Erwan David
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 >>>

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Erwan David
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
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" > > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Ritter
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 > > > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Hitt
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Ritter
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 much for your advice. Thank you also Felix, David, and > Bastien --- i need to

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Dan Hitt
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" > > loopback loop (hd0,gptNN)$isofile > > linux

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
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" > loopback loop (hd0,gptNN)$isofile > linux (loop)/install.amd/vmlinuz boot=install.amd > iso-scan/filename=$isofile

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Jan 2021 at 20:31:53 (-0800), 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

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-20 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Hitt composed on 2021-01-20 20:31 (UTC-0800): > Or perhaps there's some other way to approach the problem? I can't recall ever installation of any Debian except by the NET method. The only things I download prior to beginning installation on a system with a working Grub is the NET

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-21 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 09:11:18 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/20/2020 10:56 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:35:04 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> > >> I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic. > >> The message received was: > >> > >> "Please insert

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/20/2020 10:56 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:35:04 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic. The message received was: "Please insert the disk labeled: Debian GNU/Linux10.0.0_Buster_-Official amd64 DVD Binary-120190706-10:24 in

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 17:22:33 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 07:43:02AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. > > > > I have no problem doing a normal install. > > The problem occurs when attempting

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 17:59:38 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. > > > I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic. > > The message received was: > > "Please insert the disk labeled: > >

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 07:43:02AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. > > I have no problem doing a normal install. > The problem occurs when attempting to install additional packages. > > I receive a message to insert the

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:35:04 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic. > The message received was: > > "Please insert the disk labeled: > Debian GNU/Linux10.0.0_Buster_-Official amd64 DVD > Binary-120190706-10:24 > in drive /media/cdrom/" > > What is the

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. > I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic. > The message received was: > "Please insert the disk labeled: > Debian GNU/Linux10.0.0_Buster_-Official amd64 DVD If i search "gparted" by

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 11/20/20 7:35 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/20/2020 07:52 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I believe the "request" for a DVD is outdated. Try inserting your USB device and proceed as normal I did a completely fresh install to the test machine - including a full install of the MATE desktop. I

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/20/2020 07:52 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I believe the "request" for a DVD is outdated. Try inserting your USB device and proceed as normal I did a completely fresh install to the test machine - including a full install of the MATE desktop. I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic.

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Peter Ehlert
I believe the "request" for a DVD is outdated. Try inserting your USB device and proceed as normal *perhaps it should say "insert the install media" or something similar On 11/20/20 5:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. I have

Re: Installing Debian In Intel Optane System

2020-06-15 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, disclaimer: I do not have Optane hardware, all the following is supposition you will probably be interested in reading some of the links mentioned here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/start I would imagine that you could use the pmem memmap kernel parameter to launch the Debian

Re: Installing Debian In Intel Optane System

2020-06-15 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-14 23:00, Athul Neelamparambil wrote: Hi , I use an Acer Aspire 3 laptop with preinstalled Windows. I tried to install Debian in it but the HDD was not detected and when I looked it up, I found out that my SATA was set to "Optane Without RAID" and to install Debian, I have to set

Re: Installing Debian on an HP Pavilion p2-1140 64bit computer

2020-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
David Anthony composed on 2020-02-17 13:39 (UTC-0500): > I have installed Debian on my laptop (lenovo 120S) without any problem. I > am trying to install it on my desktop, a HP Paavilion p2-1140 64bit. > Everything goes very well until it starts to install "Grub." At that > point, the machine

Re: Installing Debian 10 Buster With Custom LUKS Options

2019-10-30 Thread encrypt10n
Hi, Thank you for this kind message. I will read again. Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting encrypt...@riseup.net (2019-10-30 16:09:00) >> Thank you for your reply. I found many articles about using FDE with >> detached header but all of them are saying "disable secure boot >> first". Then i did some

Re: Installing Debian 10 Buster With Custom LUKS Options

2019-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting encrypt...@riseup.net (2019-10-30 16:09:00) > Thank you for your reply. I found many articles about using FDE with > detached header but all of them are saying "disable secure boot > first". Then i did some research on the internet and found this video >

Re: Installing Debian 10 Buster With Custom LUKS Options

2019-10-30 Thread TPB
Hi Jonas, Thank you for your reply. I found many articles about using FDE with detached header but all of them are saying "disable secure boot first". Then i did some research on the internet and found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-pvLMHtRSA). This guy is explaining Debian 10

Re: Installing Debian 10 Buster With Custom LUKS Options

2019-10-30 Thread encrypt10n
Hi Jonas, Thank you for your reply. I found many articles about using FDE with detached header but all of them are saying "disable secure boot first". Then i did some research on the internet and found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-pvLMHtRSA). This guy is explaining Debian 10

Re: Installing Debian 10 Buster With Custom LUKS Options

2019-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[re-posting to list] Quoting encrypt...@riseup.net (2019-10-30 00:51:00) > Dear Debian Family, > > Hope you are good. I have a LUKS project on Debian but i don't know > exactly how can i do this. Let me explain the details. > > I watched a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cchdw75WKXQ)

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 04:44:32PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > So, "Linux MD RAID 10" can be RAID 1, RAID 10, or something totally > different. > > > Co-opting and redefining standard terms is bad engineering. To be honest, and as I remember, the term RAID-10 was doomed from the

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 8/11/19 12:42 AM, Reco wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 05:25:30PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 8/10/19 3:55 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit : On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 11:18:49AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > But, as others have said, two HDD's and one SDD in JBOD (or RAID) > is not optimal. On the other hand it's probably not going to be worse than 3 HDDs. All the ways of trying to exploit the speed of the SSD are quite

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2019 à 09:42, Reco a écrit : The big question is - why would anyone make a RAID10 consisting of two drives. It's impossible to reshape it (mdadm does not support it for RAID10), it's I/O characteristics are indistinguishable from RAID1. With two drives the default RAID 10 "near"

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 05:25:30PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 8/10/19 3:55 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit : > > > On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-10 Thread David Christensen
On 8/10/19 3:55 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit : On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would result in half the capacity of the total (768G) and you could withstand the loss of any one

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit : On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would result in half the capacity of the total (768G) and you could withstand the loss of any one device. RAID 10 requires 4 drives: Not Linux

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-10 Thread deloptes
Pavel Vlček wrote: > I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to > install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or > lvm? I found an issue with lvm, when I want to create lvm, it shows you > can use $minsize and $maxsize, but all disks are 512,

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