Re: List attachments

2019-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Carl! The free WordPress account sounds very interesting. I’ll check it out. Rick > On May 5, 2019, at 4:28 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > > On 5/5/19 6:13 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I used to have my own webserver, but the machine I was running it on died. >>

Re: List attachments (was: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender)

2019-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
> On May 5, 2019, at 4:26 PM, David wrote: > > For pastebin purposes within Debian, please use: https://paste.debian.net/ Thanks, David. This sound like exactly what I need. Rick

Re: Minimial Live Image

2019-07-12 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 11:06 AM, J.Arun Mani wrote: > > Hi > > Im planning to install Debian in my (already Linux Mint powered) laptop. But > the ISO size is huge (~2.7 GB), something beyond my per-day bandwidth limit > of 1.5 GB (actually 2 GB, but .5 GB is spent in other personal things).

Re: [Better Solution] how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jun 27, 2019, at 12:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >> On Jun 25, 2019, at 11:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> Seems this would work as well, with less collateral damage: >> >> apt install -y sysvinit-core elogind >> apt --purge au

Re: [Solved - sorta - part 2] Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Jonas, > On Jun 25, 2019, at 11:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Would be helpful to know if those experiencing long pause in > dbus-depending environments had _no_ dbus installed (and actively > running) or had it running with elogind. How can I tell which situation I have? Thanks!

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 2, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the > Buster repositories.

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

2019-08-24 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:18 PM, l...@contacte.xyz wrote: > > What would be the «best» to choose for an SSD in an usual desktop environment > ? > What would be the «best» to choose for an mechanical HD in an usual desktop > environment ? I don’t think there’s any difference between SSD and

Re: Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian

2019-09-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Have you looked at a NUC from Intel? https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark.html#@PanelLabel70407 I’ve got a couple of them and I’m very happy. Rick > On Sep 5, 2019, at 2:49 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Dear people, > > As all my computers are quite old so far (including the ones

task-print-server in testing seems to have changed it's name to task-print-service -- why?

2019-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
task-print-server in testing seems to have changed it’s name to task-print-service -- why? Thanks Rick

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
If 12GB is reasonable (I have no idea, I don’t use “hibernate” myself) here are figures to input to the calculation: SSD sustained write transfer rate is between 30 MB/sec and 120 MB/sec. Closer to 30 MB/sec (or even slower) if it’s a USB-3 thumb drive (even less than that if USB-2); closer to

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
:/media/rbthomas/99602c92-f887-4578-b6bc-39c91d49c43c/rbthomas$ dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024 oflag=sync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 34.044 s, 31.5 MB/s > On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:19 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Here’s a

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
You need to add the clause “oflag=sync” on your dd commands. Without it the MB/s numbers are really just measuring how fast you can fill up the RAM cache (for write) or scoop up data from the RAM cache (in the case of read). Here’s an example from one of my machines with a SATA-III SSD and

Re: [Better Solution] how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jun 25, 2019, at 11:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Seems this would work as well, with less collateral damage: > > apt install -y sysvinit-core elogind > apt --purge autoremove > This works great and, as noted, is far more elegant. Thanks, Jonas! Rick

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Konstantin Nebel wrote: > Hi, > > > Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly. > > I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used borg > in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

2019-11-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 10:25 PM, elvis wrote: > > On 3/11/19 1:50 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: >> See reply bottom posted... >> >> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >>> On 11/2/19 8:10 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: >>>> Here is the setup

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

2019-11-02 Thread Rick Thomas
See reply bottom posted... On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Bob Weber wrote: > On 11/2/19 8:10 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: >> Here is the setup. We are on a private vlan as in 192.168.x.x. All local host names are resolved via hosts files. Messages to go to the big wide world must go through

Re: Fwd: Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
ions without fear of Catch-22. Thanks for the correction! Rick On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, at 8:32 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 20 Jan 2020 at 17:09:33 (-0800), Rick Thomas wrote: > > Whether you can use the "netinstall" CD depends on whether your device's > > network connecti

Re: could not resolve deb.debian.org after installing via debian live image

2020-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Tamar, I think your problem is that the box is not connected to the internet. The sources.list file left by the install process assumes you will be connected. So take a look at /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the lines that refer to internet sites such as deb.debian.org, Then

Re: could not resolve deb.debian.org after installing via debian live image

2020-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm not sure myself, but maybe somebody on the list knows? Anybody know what's the procedure for adding a local disk as a repo? Thanks in advance! On Sun, Feb 2, 2020, at 4:15 AM, Tamar Nirenberg wrote: > Hi Rick, > > Thank you for your answer. > > The sources file contains only these lines,

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
t;mac" support with 10.3 ? On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 3:17 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > For a friend... > > Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free > firmware? > > He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 > > https://everym

Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd like to get Linux running on. A live image for the

Re: apple mini

2020-01-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, at 6:57 PM, ghe wrote: > > > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 07:46 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > > > >> If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD > >> with magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical > >> destruction of the media. > >

Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
> Since you have to install the firmware-linux-nonfree that means that > it s not installed! From what I remember > you need to select those packages at the end of the base image > installation. And you must do an "expert" install, in order to see that option. If you do a "Standard" install,

Fwd: Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
age ----- From: Thomas Hilbert To: Rick Thomas Subject: Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall Date: Sunday, January 19, 2020 5:50 PM Good to know about the expert option.  So what does the Non-Free, firmware installer get you over the standard all open source installer? On 1/19/20 2:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote

Re: Fwd: Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-20 Thread Rick Thomas
into it, but then it didn't load the driver without my > intervention.   Perhaps it is because I used the ~350mb netinstaller NOT > the full CD or DVD iso's...though I haven't seen that explicitly > documented anywhere. > > Thanks > > > Tom > > On 1/19/20 9:18 PM, Rick

Re: Can I install Debian on Raspberry Pi?

2020-04-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Pure Debian, as noted, does not have the kernel tweaks to take full advantage of the R...pi4B hardware. However, I have found that Raspbian is "close enough" to pure Debian that I can easily exercise all by Debian skills on it with almost no surprises. It's a nice little box! Hope that

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 6:45 AM, deloptes wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > The covid-19 situation is giving me lots of free time recently, so I've > > ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 with delivery expected sometime this week. > Can you explain to me what type of storage you intend t

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 5:40 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 23 Apr 2020 at 23:58:41 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > > "When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything > > > at all." - Futurama > > > > > Could you explain that please? > > If you're like me when you

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
> Consider the time you've spent posing this question, waiting for the > answers, and reading them. Dump and reload might've finished already. True, but I wouldn't have learned half so much and wouldn't have had a third so much had so much fun learning it! Stay safe!

Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently did a "apt update ; apt upgrade" and it died for lack of space in /boot when trying to install the latest kernel. I purged a couple of old kernel packages (still present in the 'stable' repo, so they weren't obsolete) to make enough space and tried again. Worked this time, but I

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 9:10 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 09 May 2020 20:05:48 -0700 > "Rick Thomas" wrote: > > > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4 30G

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto: > > I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB is > > fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be just > > opinions. > I had the same doubts about a

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 10 mai 20, 02:02:45, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So... Here's another question: > > > > Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so > > small? Disk (even SSD) is cheap enough these days

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 1:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-05-09 22:05, Will Mengarini wrote: > > * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > >> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot? > > By creating a reliable backup and reformatting the disk to &

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
So... Here's another question: Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so small? Disk (even SSD) is cheap enough these days that the default size could be as much as a GB without great pain. Has this been thought about by the PTBs? Was there a discussion of possibly

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 12:30 PM, David Christensen wrote: > As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can > get the job done. GRML [1] says: "Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 9:28 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:43:43 -0700 > "Rick Thomas" wrote: > > > Can anybody suggest a good NAS package? Debian based is preferable, > > but almost any Linux will do. > > I find a combination of pl

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Lammens wrote: > Hi Rick > > You could try openmediavault. It has an iso for the raspberrypi, and > comes with a smb, ftp and ssh system preinstalled, so serving all kinds > of client os's should be no problem. It also has a webgui, and has a few >

NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
The covid-19 situation is giving me lots of free time recently, so I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 with delivery expected sometime this week. I'd like to use it for a NAS for the home network, so my family can share files without resorting to sneaker-net. We have a full range of clients -- Mac,

Migrating to a new disk.

2020-08-30 Thread Rick Thomas
OK, I've got a Debian computer where the system disk is showing signs of flakiness. I want to replace it with a new disk and retire the old one. Before I do it for real, I'm doing a dry-run on a vmware virtual machine. I don't *think* the fact that it's virtual should affect my results. But

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

2020-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, at 4:42 PM, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, All - > > My brother has been issuing "mount /dev/sdb1" prior to backing up some > files to a second hard disk. He lately upgraded to 'testing', and it > appears (from result of running df) that what the system now calls > /dev/sdb1 is

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-17 Thread Rick Thomas
I too have been using Debian for over a decade, and I've come to rely on it, so I hear your concern at having to "switch" to something new. But I don't think Devuan is really all that "new". For almost two years I've had Devuan ascii with mate desktop in a VM that I use daily for a variety

Re: Fw: Fw: How long will this take?

2020-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, at 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Matthew Campbell wrote: > > The process is complete. The 4 TB drive has been successfully blanked in > > less than 40 hours using dd. It got done between 11 pm last night and 12 am > > this morning. dd showed an overall average write speed

Re: Fw: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
This means that reads and writes should be on 4KiB boundaries, and writes should be multiples of 4KiB, for optimal performance. As long as those criteria are met, there's no harm and some real benefits of reading and writing larger blocks than the minimum. One example benefit, among several

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:42:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:42:37 +0200 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386 > > > support you should

Re: po...@lists.debian.org

2021-01-10 Thread Rick Thomas
This is not the place for a political discussion. Please confine your comments to debian technical questions.

Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-27 Thread Rick Thomas
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

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 install

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 f

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

X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

2021-06-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, at 8:33 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > X clients like MATE don't directly depend on an X server, because in > > theory, the X server could be on a different machine. I'd love to be able to do that! E.g. a headless machine with plenty of RAM and CPU power to run Mate, but

Re: Help: explanation of secure flash?

2021-07-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, at 5:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, at 3:37 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've seen warnings (against hacks) that say (among other things) to enable > > "secure flash". I've been googling to learn more about that, but I ha

Re: Help: explanation of secure flash?

2021-07-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, at 3:37 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I've seen warnings (against hacks) that say (among other things) to enable > "secure flash". I've been googling to learn more about that, but I haven't > found any good explanation. > > I'm beginning to get hints that it is not so

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
I use the following little script. If it produces output, then a reboot is desirable. #!/bin/bash -p set -x PATH=/usr/bin:/bin lsof +c0 -w | grep ' DEL *REG *[^0 ]' | egrep -v \ '(/var/lib/gdm3|/usr/share/mime|/home/[^/]*)/(.cache|.config|.local)' What it does is look for library (and

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 > > https://

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, at 4:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is > > full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: > > (and you can use Debian to achieve your ends) > > > Can anyone point

Re: Always run apt update before clicking on synaptic ?

2021-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Synaptic has a button to (essentially) run "apt update" It's in the upper left corner of the window and labeled "Reload" and if you hover over it, it says "reload the package information to become informed about new, removed or upgraded software packages". HTH! Rick

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 6:02 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2021 30 Sep 15:15 -0500, Marco Möller wrote: >> SUMMARY: >> I never observed problems with ext4 on my since 4 years heavily used USB >> pen-drive. >> >> Good Luck! >> Marco > > Thanks Marco! > > That is a very useful review of your

Re: Debian 11 on old Macbook

2021-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Hold down the key when you turn the machine on. Hold it until the finishes. You should see a menu of possible boot disks. Pick one that has a penguin on it. Hope that helps! Rick On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, at 11:11 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 Nov 2021 at 14:59:09 (+0100),

How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
The title says it all, I hope. I've tried installing vmware player on my Bookworm according to the instructions from https://techviewleo.com/install-vmware-on-debian/ But I can't seem to get vmware player to start up. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better location to look for

Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, at 7:04 PM, జిందం వాఐి wrote: >> PPS: If VMware isn't a good choice, >> would there be a better VM supervisor >> I could use? If so, can you point me >> to a set of instructions for it? > > * these are MY personal opnions from > experience [ almost decade ago ] > [ may not

Documentation for KVM/QEMU? [Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm]

2023-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anyone recommend good documentation on KVM/QEMU that would allow me to get up to speed on it quickly? Thanks! Rick On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, at 4:33 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 5 Nov 2023 10:56 +0100, from andr...@xss.co.at (Andreas Haumer): >>> PPS: If VMware isn't a good choice, would

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, at 1:59 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sun Jul 17 09:16:57 2022 Dekks Herton wrote: > > > john doe writes: > > > >> I'm comtemplating buying a Pinebook pro but I'm not sure if this is > >> better then buying a Windows laptop and putting linux on it. > >> > >> I'm

failure trying to install bullseye on Cubox-i

2022-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm experimenting with installing Bullseye on a Cubox-i4Pro I keep around for testing purposes. I followed the instructions at: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images Then I dd'ed the

Re: failure trying to install bullseye on Cubox-i

2022-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, at 6:37 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'm experimenting with installing Bullseye on a Cubox-i4Pro I keep > around for testing purposes. > > I followed the instructions at: > > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/c

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
You might want to take a look at "Computer Networks" by A.S. Tanenbaum and D.J. Wetherall. It's available for free online at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v=sites=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxza21pbmh8Z3g6NjQxMTI2MmYxMTAwZmNjZQ Or you can buy a copy from your local bookseller. Enjoy! Rick

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 8/5/22 10:47 am, Rick Thomas wrote: >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022. >>> This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be >>> used in production any longe

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 8/5/22 11:14 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: >> >> >> You can just use systemd-networkd as an IPv4 dhcp client. >> >> > > Of note: Using systemd-networkd you should not use NetworkManager or > networking services. I think both use the ISC dhcp

Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
According to the ISC webpage: > ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022. > This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be > used in production any longer. Can anybody recommend a good replacement? Does anybody know what the Debian PTBs are planning

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 9:37 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 8/5/22 11:27 am, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Thanks for the heads up! >> Can you describe in detail what one needs to do in order to switch over? >> I.e. what to remove, what to install? What to configure? > >

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 7:47 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > According to the ISC webpage: > >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022. >> This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be >> used in production any longer. > >

Re: PowerBook G4 OS

2023-01-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Bob Crochelt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 09:59:48AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote: >> Le mardi 10 janvier 2023 à 16:32 -0800, Bob Crochelt a écrit : >> > > >> > Thanks to all who replied.  I appreciate the help and advice.  Think >> > I >> > will just sit

Re: Will my reconstructed fstab work?

2022-11-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Sorry to hear of your mishap, Ken ... In regards to possibly making your system un-bootable, I have two suggestions: 1) First make a backup of everything ASAP! (and make plans for frequent regular backups into the future) 2) Always remember that you can boot from the Bullseye install DVD (or USB

what do I need to add to my sources.list for the new non-free-firmware repository?

2023-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
I've got a couple of Debian systems that (for various reasons) are running "testing" or "sid". I recently did apt update && apt upgrade && aptitude search '~o' on these machines and found that a number of firmware packages are considered "obsolete", presumably because they are no

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 1, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 02:06, David Christensen wrote: >> On 5/1/23 06:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On my "new" Bullseye machines the root volume starts to fill up. The >>> cause seems to be the /usr/lib folder. >>> On my older Buster (10.13)

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Jeff! On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:04 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:49 AM Rick Thomas wrote: snip >> In this case, the package is already installed. >> Unfortunately when I try to reinstall it, I get: >> >> rbthomas@pi:

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, at 9:21 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:15 AM Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Debian (*not* Raspbian) that I just >> upgraded from Bullseye => Bookworm. >> >> Following the upgrade

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
That seems to have worked (I think)... On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 7:34 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: snip > It might be worth looking at precisely what is not installed / removed > dpkg -C will give you what needs configuring if anything, I think. > > I had a similar experience with

VirtualBox key is store in deprecated legacy keyring

2023-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently upgraded one of my Debian Bullseye machines to Bookworm. The machine's main purpose is to run Virtualbox to allow me to experiment on disposable VMs rather than real hardware. Now when I do "apt update" I get this message: .W:

Re: VirtualBox key is store in deprecated legacy keyring

2023-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, at 8:27 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:15 PM Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Now when I do "apt update" I get this message: >> .W: >> https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease: &

Ethernet device names change Bullseye => Bookworm. How to assign unchanging name to device?

2023-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
I've been upgrading my machines Bullseye => Bookworm recently. In a few of these upgrades, the name of the ethernet device changed. (E.g. enP2p32s15f0 => enP2p0s15f0) This required changes to /etc/network/interfaces in order to start up the interface. This is only a minor inconvenience

Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-21 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Debian (*not* Raspbian) that I just upgraded from Bullseye => Bookworm. Following the upgrade whenever I try to install the latest upgrades, I get errors (see attached transcript). Can anybody see what I've done wrong? Or what I can do to fix it? I'm not

Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

2023-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there a netinst iso that I can use to safely install Bookworm (stable) on a new PC? If so, where can I download it from? If not, how much longer is it likely to be before one exists? Thanks! Rick

Re: Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

2023-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023, at 6:22 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 05:47:48PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Is there a netinst iso that I can use to safely install Bookworm (stable) on >> a new PC? > > Well, with a netinst, the issue isn't what's on the

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Thank you for mentioning "dnsmasq". I do the same thing on my home network and it works very well. Rick On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, at 9:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do >> they do with the contents? > > AFAIK it's mostly unused

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