Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

On 3/1/19 4:20 PM, Fabiano Ferronato wrote: > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and > Nvidia video cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is > set in a way that the font size is so small that I have to > almost put my face on the monitor so I can read. And the >

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

Le 01/03/2019 à 18:30, Felix Miata a écrit : Including either nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 for installation is pointless, since the installer does not use KMS. Another key is the i7-6700HQ provides HD 530 Intel video. Intel + NVidia usually equates to "Optimus" which makes

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

Fabiano Ferronato composed on 2019-03-01 16:20 (UTC+0100): > I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot > trying to find a way to this problem. > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video > cards) and the resolution (probably

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

On 2019-03-01, Fabiano Ferronato wrote: > > Hi all! > > I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot > trying to find a way to this problem. > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video > cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is

Screen resolution during Stretch installation

Hi all! I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot trying to find a way to this problem. I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is set in a way that the font size is so small that I

Re: (finished)Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/04/2018 07:39 PM, David Christensen wrote: > I do keep optical drives in the older machines because their BIOS can be > incompatible with bootable USB flash drives. these machines need to be trashed, they are generaly not so efficient

Re: (finished)Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On 08/02/2018 01:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: to David Christensen: your solutions is complex, I assume you are referring to "configure your Internet gateway to block traffic between the host and the Internet". Learning about Internet gateways in general, and about your gateway in particular, is

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On 08/01/2018 01:00 AM, Long Wind wrote: i don't like security update because i suspect it cause problem (some packaged can't be installed) during stretch installation last time I suggest that you obtain the debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso image (via jigdo), burn it to CD/USB, configure

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On 8/1/18 1:00 AM, Long Wind wrote: > i don't like security update because i suspect it cause problem (some > packaged can't be installed) during stretch installation last time > > and i've used linux for a long time and i think it's stable even without > security update. and in

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

David Christensen wrote: > Why not? I guess because he's in China and internet costs relatively much there.

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 06:05:04PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 07/31/2018 05:42 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 05:36:41PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > One possibility is to configure your Internet gateway to block traffic > > > between the host

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On 07/31/2018 05:42 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 05:36:41PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: One possibility is to configure your Internet gateway to block traffic between the host and the Internet, and then install from CD-1, DVD-*, BD-*, etc., media. An easier

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 05:36:41PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > One possibility is to configure your Internet gateway to block traffic > between the host and the Internet, and then install from CD-1, DVD-*, BD-*, > etc., media. > An easier approach would be that when the installer asks

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

On 07/31/2018 02:56 PM, Long Wind wrote: i plan to install debian by network Okay. i don't like security update, Why not? how to do it? Thanks! One possibility is to configure your Internet gateway to block traffic between the host and the Internet, and then install from CD-1,

Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

On 03/20/2018 06:04 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Monday, 19 March 2018 16:43:21 CET Richard Owlett wrote: It's better, but with an HTML document I can simply coerce the document to display with a comfortably readable font and I find the existence of functional internal links extremely useful

Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

On Monday, 19 March 2018 16:43:21 CET Richard Owlett wrote: > It's better, but with an HTML document I can simply coerce the document > to display with a comfortably readable font and I find the existence of > functional internal links extremely useful for how I read that type of > document. This

[SOLVED] Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

On 03/19/2018 10:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote: to...@tuxteam.de composed on 2018-03-19 15:57 (UTC+0100): On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Is "Debian stretch -- Installation Guide" available as a single downloadable HTML file? I find <https://w

Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

to...@tuxteam.de composed on 2018-03-19 15:57 (UTC+0100): > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Is "Debian stretch -- Installation Guide" available as a single >> downloadable HTML file? >> I find <https://www.debian.org/rel

Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

On 03/19/2018 09:57 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Is "Debian stretch -- Installation Guide" available as a single downloadable HTML file? I find <https://www.debian.org/re

Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Is "Debian stretch -- Installation Guide" available as a single > downloadable HTML file? > > I find <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/> unwield

Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

Is "Debian stretch -- Installation Guide" available as a single downloadable HTML file? I find <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/> unwieldy in my personal situation. TIA

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

Bash has some ability to handle hex. I don't know that it can convert a string into hex though. If wpa_passphrase gets included it may be possible for the installation script to strip the wpa_psk line out and turn the psk value into hex and replace it in the /etc/network/interfaces file it

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

018 at 13:25:16 (+), Ian Jackson wrote: > > bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote: > > > > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt > > >

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Wed 07 Mar 2018 at 13:25:16 (+), Ian Jackson wrote: > bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote: > > > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt > &g

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

ack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> To: bw <bwtn...@yahoo.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.org Newsgroups: chiark.mail.debian.devel Subject: Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 13:25:34 + (UTC) Resent-From:

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068#47 > > seems to suggest

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote: > > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt > > to rectify the situation, I'm beginning to have sympathy with that view.

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:46:24 -0500 (EST) bw sent: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch > > installation"): > > > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439. > > > > Thanks. &

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:34:27 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > I think the idea needs to be talked over a little better, because using > > e/n/i for wireless by default after first boot has impl

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:27:29 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439. > > Thanks. > > I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here >

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > I think the idea needs to be talked over a little better, because using > e/n/i for wireless by default after first boot has implications if the > user (who is clueless) later installs a

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439. Thanks. I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068#47 seems to suggest a way forward. Perhaps

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 15:01:03 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > The plain and simple fact is that a user who installs over a wireless > > link and does not have network-manager does

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > The plain and simple fact is that a user who installs over a wireless > link and does not have network-manager does not have any connectivity > to the internet after first boot. Long Wind solved

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Sun 04 Mar 2018 at 22:34:28 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > ... > > Many ways exist to solve this problem and it took a while to find out > > what to do and how because there's more and better support from > > debian-users than is in debian wiki >

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Sun 04 Mar 2018 at 19:10:02 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > The least debian-boot membership could do would be to have a note come > > up for installers to execute a shell and do the file copy before > > rebooting once hard drive got mounted.

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

Jude DaShiell writes: ... > Many ways exist to solve this problem and it took a while to find out > what to do and how because there's more and better support from > debian-users than is in debian wiki If you can see a way to improve the information on the wiki, please go

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

ists.debian.org Cc: debian-b...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> writes: The least debian-boot membership could do would be to have a note come up for installers to execute a shell and do the file copy be

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

Jude DaShiell writes: > The least debian-boot membership could do would be to have a note come > up for installers to execute a shell and do the file copy before > rebooting once hard drive got mounted. This is a problem for wifi users > with no impact for ethernet users.

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

Mar 2018 05:35:28 From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 10:35:45 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun 04 Mar 2018 at 08:41:00 +, Long Wind

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Sun 04 Mar 2018 at 08:41:00 +, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Brian! Your instructions are right, wireless works now! > the 1st time i use network installthis time i use cdrom install, it has same > problemas this problem is easily reproduced, why don't they fix it?? > i attach wrong and right

Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:17:07 + (UTC) Long Wind sent: > i've just installed stretchi've config wireless during > installationand it work during installation but after i boot into > stretch, wireless doesn't worki didn't install network manager during > installation how can i get wireless to

Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On 3/3/18, Brian wrote: > On Sat 03 Mar 2018 at 23:17:07 +, Long Wind wrote: > >> i've just installed stretchi've config wireless during installationand >> it work during installation but after i boot into stretch, wireless >> doesn't worki didn't install network manager

Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

On Sat 03 Mar 2018 at 23:17:07 +, Long Wind wrote: > i've just installed stretchi've config wireless during installationand > it work during installation but after i boot into stretch, wireless > doesn't worki didn't install network manager during installation how > can i get wireless to work

Re: Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

I've assumed the OP is not subscribed to the list. On Wed 06 Sep 2017 at 16:07:55 (+0300), gentoo...@runbox.com wrote: > I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the > installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. > GRUB > failed to load

Re: Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

On 09/06/17 06:07, gentoo...@runbox.com wrote: I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. GRUB failed to load the kernel and after a short diagnosis I learned that for some reason, the

Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. GRUB failed to load the kernel and after a short diagnosis I learned that for some reason, the Debian installer saw my USB thumb drive as /dev/sda

Re: Stretch Installation

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The first of the problems with the Stretch installation rendered it > unbootable, though I had a fair idea as to what that problem was and was > able to get the system to the point

Re: Stretch Installation

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 02:01:30AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2016-10-04 00:06 (UTC-0500): > > >...who do I need to be in touch with and in what forum to participate > >in the development process as outlined above? > > Debian is mainly about packaging, not

Re: Stretch Installation

Michael Milliman composed on 2016-10-04 00:06 (UTC-0500): ...who do I need to be in touch with and in what forum to participate in the development process as outlined above? Debian is mainly about packaging, not "developing" software, so the best answer might depend on which DM/DE/desktop,

Stretch Installation

. This is not a big surprise, which is why I installed Stretch on a separate partition, retaining my Jessie installation completely intact. The first of the problems with the Stretch installation rendered it unbootable, though I had a fair idea as to what that problem was and was able to get the system

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Ric Moore composed on 2016-09-16 03:49 (UTC+1000): > >> Chris Angelico wrote: > > > I don't see that either of you have mentioned your hardware in this thread. > If non-working Xorg is your root problem, maybe you're up

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

Ric Moore composed on 2016-09-16 03:49 (UTC+1000): Chris Angelico wrote: I don't see that either of you have mentioned your hardware in this thread. If non-working Xorg is your root problem, maybe you're up against a broken driver and a switch is called for:

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote: >>> >>> On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> The first sign of failure was

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor.

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't >> load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to >> track down the failure,

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to track down the failure, I found the disk to be full, so I didn't bother analyzing it any further. Same

Odd issues with Stretch installation

Hi! Not sure how best to report this, as I have no idea what Debian package (if any?) handles the installer. In trying to test an Xfce patch, I spun up a virtual machine (using VirtualBox under my main Debian Stretch installation, though I doubt that makes any difference). The virtual hard disk I

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED)

Gary Roach wrote: > That said, what caused this problem. I did not edit the fstab file > during upgrade and the system was working just fine before. Is this a > bug in the upgrade process? As far as I know the upgrade process does not touch /etc/fstab. So my guess

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED)

Thanks all; The corrections in fstab fixed all of the problems. Thanks for the tip to get rid of ConsoleKit. That said, what caused this problem. I did not edit the fstab file during upgrade and the system was working just fine before. Is this a bug in the upgrade process? I have seen several

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

Gary Roach composed on 2015-12-21 23:57 (UTC-0800): > # > # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation > /dev/sda1 /ext4 rw noatime 0 1 Invalid, so due to the bad entry, / gets mounted ro. You cannot have whitespace except where the header line shows you.

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 08:00:05 UTC, Gary Roach wrote: > OK > > systemctl --failed gives > root@supercrunch:/etc# systemctl --failed >UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION > ● anacron.service loaded failed failed Run anacron jobs > ●

consolekit in jessie (Re: Stretch installation boots to read only)

Am 22.12.2015 um 08:57 schrieb Gary Roach: > ● console-kit-log-system-start.service loaded failed failed Console This is an unrelated comment, but since I've seen consolekit in the list of services: With jessie, that service is in the vast majority of cases not necessary anymore. Unfortunately

Stretch installation boots to read only

Hi all; I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows doesn't start. I have to log in as root, run mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 /, exit

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Gary Roach wrote: >>> I re-wrote the line to read /dev/sda1/ ext4 rw, noatime0 >>> 1 and commented out the old line. The error still happens at the >>> same place. >>

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

Gary Roach wrote: > I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software > that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a > command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows > doesn't start. I have to log in as

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

OK systemctl --failed gives root@supercrunch:/etc# systemctl --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● anacron.service loaded failed failed Run anacron jobs ● apache2.service loaded failed failed LSB: Apache2 web

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows