Alexander V. Makartsev on Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:17:59 +0500 wrote:
>On 02.04.2021 22:56, Dan Norton wrote:
>> Alexander V. Makartsev wrote Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:16:08 +0500:
>>
>> "Is "192.168.1.254" an IP address of your DSL modem?
>> If you don't n
Greg Wooledge on Fri, 2 Apr 2021 23:24:43 -0400 wrote:
"On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:48:09PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
> # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain attlocal.net
> search attlocal.net
> nameserver 1.1.1.1
> nameserver 1.0.0.1
> ...and this works very well. I like it becaus
On 3/31/21 1:33 PM, David Christensen wrote:
"$ host -v -t A www.debian.org 192.168.1.254
Dan -- did you run the above test? This may help isolate if the problem
is Debian 10 or your AT&T gateway."
$ host -v -t A www.debian.org 192.168.1.254
Trying "www.debian.org"
;; connection timed out; no s
Alexander V. Makartsev on Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:17:59 +0500 wrote:
"On 02.04.2021 22:56, Dan Norton wrote:
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:16:08 +0500:
"Is "192.168.1.254" an IP address of your DSL modem?
If you don't need to resolve hostnames from you loc
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:16:08 +0500:
"Is "192.168.1.254" an IP address of your DSL modem?
If you don't need to resolve hostnames from you local network, like
"somepc1.attlocal.net" and only want to access the Internet, you can
configure one or more of the public DNS server
David Wright wrote on Thu, 1 Apr 2021 11:50:56 -0500:
"I don't recall your answering Alexander's question: what benefit are
you getting from those two lines? Do you have a number of machines
at home that are being placed in that domain, whose names you
resolve with att's help?"
I don't know, exce
David Christensen wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:49:56 -0700:
I would do 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' ('autoremove',
'clean', etc.). Once apt-get(8) is done, I would revert the changes
to /etc/resolv.conf and see if name resolution breaks or remains
working. (I would test by renaming /etc/
Thank you, Felix. This post is coming from Debian with names resolved:
#1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19)
Also resolv.conf is un-messed with:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain attlocal.net
search attlocal.net
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.254
All is well again. Thanks
Thanks to all who responded. This problem makes me post from a Windows laptop
and transfer terminal output via thumb drive to the laptop. Not pretty.
To David: Yes, I have done a cold reboot since upgrading.
# apt update
0% [Connecting to deb.debian.org] [Connecting to qgis.org] [Connecting to
b
stemd-resolved
shows it being active and "Processing requests...".
Nothing in history.log and term.log is obviously wrong to me FWIW.
# journalctl -b0
gives no clue to me.
No doubt it is something simple(tm). Where should I look or what should I
re-read?
- Dan Norton
Thanks to Greg Marks, the answer is:
root@deb4:~# /usr/sbin/cupsenable HP_LaserJet_3050
and the printer is ready. Thanks Greg!
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:23:43 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
> My printer on the desktop became not ready and my attempts to make it
> ready have bit the dust. I don&#
My printer on the desktop became not ready and my attempts to make it
ready have bit the dust. I don't print much, usually just text, using
the lp command. My printer worked fine until I used gscan2pdf to scan
one page to a pdf for an email. The pdf was created but gscan2pdf did
not terminate clean
On Wed, 30 May 2018 18:53:54 +0100
Brian wrote:
> On Wed 30 May 2018 at 00:31:25 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:39:28 +0100 Brian said:
> >
> > > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new
> > > packages to be installed if they are required to
On Fri, 18 May 2018 01:41:35 +
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:31:26PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
> > In another (non-minimal) system with a working DNS:
> >
> > root@debU:~# apt search libjansson
> > [snip]
> > libjan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 19:34:30 -0400
Dan Norton wrote:
> In trying to get DNS working on a minimal install of Debian 9.4, by
> copying things from a working system, I run into this:
>
> # systemctl status NetworkManager
> ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
>Lo
In trying to get DNS working on a minimal install of Debian 9.4, by
copying things from a working system, I run into this:
# systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled) Ac
On Tue, 8 May 2018 00:10:50 +0100
Brian wrote:
> On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:37:16 -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 May 2018 23:22:46 +0100
> > Brian wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
> > >
On Tue, 8 May 2018 08:33:47 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> > On 5/8/18, Curt wrote:
> > > I downloaded 'debian-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso' and booted it in
> > > kvm and *it does work* as advertised here, so I don't know what
> > >
On Mon, 7 May 2018 18:24:04 -0400
Felix Miata wrote:
> Dan Norton composed on 2018-05-07 18:04 (UTC-0400):
>
> > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> IME, virtually any distro's installation media when its presence
> >> first ap
On Mon, 7 May 2018 23:22:46 +0100
Brian wrote:
> On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> >
> > > jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100):
> > >
> > > &
On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400
Felix Miata wrote:
> jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100):
>
> > Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> My Debian installations are all net installs that include
>
> >>tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false
>
> >> on the kernel cmdline. I
On Mon, 7 May 2018 15:30:54 + (UTC)
Curt wrote:
> On 2018-05-07, Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-05-07, Dan Norton wrote:
> >>>
> >>> on the kernel cmdline. I get nothing I don't need installed that
> >>> way. Xorg and whatever else
On Mon, 7 May 2018 09:59:01 -0400
Bob Weber wrote:
> On 5/7/18 9:28 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> My goal was to copy root and its sub-directory to a directory on
> >> another physical device.
> > Well understood.
> > In a slightly different scenario (ba
On Sun, 6 May 2018 18:09:12 -0400
Felix Miata wrote:
> John composed on 2018-05-06 21:51 (UTC+0100):
>
> > How do I get a working computer? I can ssh in from elsewhere but
> > that is not what I need. And I need wifi.
>
> My Debian installations are all net installs that include
>
>
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:31:11 +
Andre Rodier wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using Linux since more than 20 years, and Debian Linux
> since Potato. I even remember the time when you had to carefully read
> the documentation of your monitor to avoid damaging it, by choosing
> the wrong fre
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:46:06 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 21:29:49 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:35:48 -0500
> > David Wright wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 18:41:55 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote:
> > &g
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:35:48 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 18:41:55 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:42:24 -0500
> > David Wright wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 13:47:42 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote:
> > &g
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:42:24 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 13:47:42 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:59:21 -0400
> > Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:18:05PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
> >
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:02:23 +0100
wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 01:47:42PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > apt-get --reinstall install libopenal1
> > >
> >
> > That di
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:59:21 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:18:05PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
> > > * The output of "apt policy ffmpeg".
> >
> > ffmpeg:
> > Installed: 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1
> > Candidate: 7:3.2.10-1~d
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:41:40 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:12:41AM +, Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-03-20, wrote:
> > > Now the interesting question would be: in *both* your stretches?
> >
> > It is interesting maybe. I don't understand it, though.
>
> Basically
I have two stretch systems, named deb4 and deb9. Both were installed
via netinst, have the latest apt update; apt upgrade, and report:
$ uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02)
Several attempts to install ffmpeg on deb9 have appeared to succeed,
but ffmpeg with various options consist
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:41:42 -0500
Felix Miata wrote:
> Dan Norton composed on 2018-02-22 16:05 (UTC-0500):
>
> > Installs of both stretch and buster modify the boot order such that
> > "debian" is first under "UEFI Boot Sources". After installation, the
&
Installs of both stretch and buster modify the boot order such that
"debian" is first under "UEFI Boot Sources". After installation, the
bios menu has to be edited in order to boot from DVD or CD or USB
drive. Also "Hard Drive" has been replaced with "debian".
The PC is:
Hewlett-Packard HP Pro 340
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:19:04 +0100
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 21/02/2018 à 03:53, Dan Norton a écrit :
> >
> > In contrast, with GPT and LVM, for the second and subsequent
> > installations, the partitioning and defining of PVs, VGs, and LVs
> > needs to be done befo
As the OP, I want to try to clear up some of the confusion. I have
caused plenty of it. :-)
I drop-kicked the partitions I had set up and started over with a bare
(nothing but free space) sda block device. At some point I have
expressed doubt that my PC could handle UEFI correctly. This is not
tru
On 12/29/2017 08:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 21/12/2017 à 20:07, Dan Norton a écrit :
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 411647 409600 200M BIOS boot
(...)
Is
On 12/28/2017 04:48 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 24/12/2017 à 05:36, Felix Miata a écrit :
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500):
The menu inside the box is:
Debian GNU/Linux
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)
Advanced
On 12/28/2017 09:45 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-12-28 at 09:37, Dan Norton wrote:
On 12/22/2017 08:46 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-12-22 at 20:25, Dan Norton wrote:
Interesting. You're not going to see Edit however unless you have
a Write in progress.
Eh? In the main Thunderbi
On 12/22/2017 08:46 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
Is there a reason why you replied off-list?
Unintentional.
On 2017-12-22 at 20:25, Dan Norton wrote:
On 12/22/2017 02:23 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-12-22 at 13:59, Joe wrote:
I don't go back far enough with either Debian or Thunde
On 12/23/2017 11:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
The menu inside the box is:
Debian GNU/Linux
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux 8
On 12/23/2017 04:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 15:12 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
[...]
It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems
efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to make
a selection
On 12/21/2017 05:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
[...]
It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems
efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to make
a selection from its own boot device selection menu, which requires an F12
keystroke here to
On 12/23/2017 07:21 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 23/12/2017 à 12:10, Georgi Naplatanov a écrit :
- connect new disk to old computer and boot from your old disk
- partition your new disk with your favorite program. I like cgdisk
from gdisk package
gdisk and cgdisk handle only GPT. For DO
On 12/22/2017 06:34 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/21/2017 08:31 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
By default, Thunderbird saves copies of sent emails in your email
account with the ISP. You can to save them instead to a local folder by
right-clicking on Local Folders and selecting "settings ->
By default, Thunderbird saves copies of sent emails in your email
account with the ISP. You can to save them instead to a local folder by
right-clicking on Local Folders and selecting "settings -> Copies and
Folders -> When sending messages, automatically:". You can also make the
reverse choice
On 12/21/2017 02:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500):
2. You will make extra work for yourself by having a common swap
partition for all installations. With the common swap, each new
installation gave rise to these messages:
a. "gave up waitin
On 12/21/2017 04:36 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500):
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500):
dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1
On 12/04/2017 12:17 AM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/03/17 13:44, Dan Norton wrote:
On 12/02/2017 02:35 PM, David Christensen wrote:
I'm not making progress with this PC so I'll probably abandon GPT.
The disk is 1T and it was handled by the extended partition scheme
before this
On 12/04/2017 12:27 AM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/03/17 21:17, David Christensen wrote:
But, it was not a total loss -- I can now dissect the SSD.
More info:
# lsblk /dev/sda
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 14.9G 0 disk
|-sda1 8:1 0 953M 0 part
`-sda2
On 12/02/2017 02:35 PM, David Christensen wrote:
[...]
Where is /boot?
Possibly, this is a better answer:
$ df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[...]
/dev/sda1 vfat 992K 855K 138K 87% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/debian8--vg-tmp
On 12/03/2017 02:04 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-04 08:00 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-03 16:44 (UTC-0500):
Note the above is currently from the future. Apparently the PC you are emailing
from is advanced one day.
Must be a result of
On 12/03/2017 02:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 04/12/2017 à 13:32, Dan Norton a écrit :
On 12/03/2017 06:49 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-12-03 10:49 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata composed:
...
So I guess that the OP means that the core image of GRUB is in
sda1
On 12/03/2017 01:04 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-04 07:32 (UTC-0500):
Note your posts are still coming from the future. Today ATM in zone -0500 it
is
still the 3rd of December.
Felix Miata wrote:
I'm pretty sure that was not OP's intent, i.e., none of G
On 12/03/2017 06:49 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-12-03 10:49 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata composed:
...
So I guess that the OP means that the core image of GRUB is in sda1, and
the boot image of GRUB is in the MBR of sda.
Based on OP's response to
https://lists.debi
On 12/02/2017 02:35 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/01/17 20:07, Dan Norton wrote:
On 12/01/2017 08:54 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/01/17 10:50, Dan Norton wrote: >>> Maybe this is the wrong
forum, but please bear with me a little bit.
This post was sent from a desktop wi
On 12/01/2017 02:58 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Dan Norton wrote:
# fdisk -l
...
Disklabel type: gpt
In the dim past, fdisk
could set a partition as "active", which was its euphemism for "bootable".
I guess, this applies only to MBR partition tables, not to GPT as on y
On 12/01/2017 08:54 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/01/17 10:50, Dan Norton wrote:
Maybe this is the wrong forum, but please bear with me a little bit.
This post was sent from a desktop with jessie installed. The problem
is it will not boot normally. Network booting has been disabled in
On 12/01/2017 02:29 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 01/12/2017 à 19:57, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:50:12PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
Disklabel type: gpt
Apparently, BIOS does not see a bootable device. In the dim past, fdisk
could set a partition as "active",
Maybe this is the wrong forum, but please bear with me a little bit.
This post was sent from a desktop with jessie installed. The problem is
it will not boot normally. Network booting has been disabled in the
NVRAM setup. After POST there is a one-liner which says it can not find
disk. It can b
On 11/29/2017 04:29 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
On 11/29/2017 03:57 PM, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500):
After POST, the following appears:
[...]
PXE-E53: No boot
On 11/29/2017 03:57 PM, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500):
After POST, the following appears:
[...]
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM
On 11/29/2017 03:37 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500):
After POST, the following appears:
[...]
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM.
ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk
On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500):
After POST, the following appears:
[...]
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM.
ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed.
It tries to PXE boot because it
On 11/16/2017 03:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC):
I see the date of the page is 2015,
IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing broken links.
Multiple OSes will still use one overall bootloader, which may or may
not redirect to other boot
On 11/29/2017 03:59 AM, Joe wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:15:22 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of
directories. Please say more about h
On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of
directories. Please say more about how to mount the other
installation and share data. How to mount things in another volume
group?
On 11/24/2017 10:08 AM, David Wright wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-22 19:09 (UTC-0500):
...
4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch
pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and suddenly
it gets a wild hair and relocate
-Original Message->From: mrma...@earthlink.net>Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:37 PM>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>Subject: Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root">>Tom Furie composed:>>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: That's
-Original Message-
>From: Tom Furie
>Sent: Nov 22, 2017 5:48 AM
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root
>
>On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
>
>> > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list...
-Original Message-
>From: Tom Furie
>Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:25 AM
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root
>
>On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>
>> That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as
>> nor
-Original Message->From: Tom Dial >Sent: Nov 19, 2017 6:44 PM>To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root>>>>On 11/18/2017 07:26 PM, Dan Norton wrote:>> While trying to netinst Debian 8.9 into an LVM physical volume
-Original Message->From: Pascal Hambourg >Sent: Nov 19, 2017 3:26 PM>To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root>>Le 19/11/2017 à 20:02, Dan Norton a écrit :>>-Original Message->>>From: Pascal Hambourg&
-Original Message->From: Pascal Hambourg >Sent: Nov 19, 2017 11:03 AM>To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root>>Le 19/11/2017 à 03:26, Dan Norton a écrit :>> >> Using LVM, one physical volume is defined on the
While trying to netinst Debian 8.9 into an LVM physical volume I keep running into "installer can not find root" or words to that effect. This is a dead end in the installer AFAICT.I have tried GPT but this HP UEFI does not play nicely with it. So, reverting to Disklabel type: dos, and using fdisk,
On 11/16/2017 02:27 PM, Joe wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:34:52 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500):
How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the
siblings? During installation, for
On 11/16/2017 02:06 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-16 13:34 (UTC-0500):
A better description of what I want is "multiboot", instead of "dual
boot" in this thread. I can see having up to 4 systems installed, all
Debians, on one disk drive. There is
On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500):
How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the
siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or
"Guided -*" ?
I don't think I&
On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500):
How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the
siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or
"Guided -*" ?
I don't think I&
On 11/13/2017 07:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 18:04 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
There's no need for separate home file systems to keep one installation from
causing corruption to another's user settings. Simply do not reuse UIDs[1].
On your f
On 11/13/2017 02:14 PM, David Christensen wrote:
[...]
Disk space is far cheaper than data loss. Don't make the mistake of
trying to save money through partition, LVM, file system, etc.,
gymnastics rather than simply buying another drive and doing it the
KISS way.
Well I'm much in favor
On 11/13/2017 02:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 10:26 (UTC-0500):
David Christensen wrote:
Dan Norton wrote:
My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I
have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during
that year. Now
On 11/13/2017 02:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 10:26 (UTC-0500):
David Christensen wrote:
Dan Norton wrote:
My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I
have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during
that year. Now
On 11/13/2017 11:07 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:01:27AM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of
directories. Please say more about how to mount the other installation and
share data. How to mount things in an
On 11/13/2017 06:56 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:27:36PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have
used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year.
Now I want to leave 8 in place and
On 11/13/2017 03:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
Dan Norton:
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My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have
used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year.
Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the
On 11/13/2017 01:10 AM, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/12/17 19:27, Dan Norton wrote:
My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I
have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during
that year. Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install
My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I
have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that
year. Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian
9 on the same disk and switch back and forth at boot time. LVM reports
as follo
On 08/23/2017 10:07 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 23/08/17 20:52, Dan Norton wrote:
Since borg is a self-contained binary, perhaps it does not need to be
formally declared as a package in Debian 8.
There is no relation between “is self-contained binary” and whether it
is in Debian
On 08/23/2017 08:53 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
If you are using Debian 9 or higher, then you have a configuration
problem because the package *is* there.
Debian 8 is what I use. You must have snipped off that part of my post.
I am not sure, but I think you are using a very old version
On 08/23/2017 07:24 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 23/08/17 15:11, Dan Norton wrote:
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26)
is on my desktop. In the process of installing borg from:
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases
You can install it easily in Debian. The package is
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26)
is on my desktop. In the process of installing borg from:
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases
I have downloaded borg-linux64 and borg-linux64.asc.
From README.txt, there are instructions for verifying the download:
[...]
To check the GPG sig
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas
wrote:
On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and
reinstalled it. I opened
On 04/20/2017 05:52 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker
wrote:
fc:
Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?
You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list
masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all o
Michael wrote:
"You say that you can log in as
rootquestion: does the root login take you to a graphical desktop??"
Yes, it does. There is a menu icon in the upper left which offers:
Default Xsession
Fvwm
Xfce Session
I pick Xfce, but if I pick Fvwm. I get a desktop similar to Xfce and
On 02/23/2017 08:40 PM, Michael Milliman wrote:
On 02/23/2017 04:16 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
Michael Milliman:
On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote:
While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to
clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts
While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However, it is still possible to log in as root.I've tried passwd to no avail.I've tried editing /etc/shadow and remo
On 12/17/2016 05:05 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Oh no! something has gone wrong.
>> A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. All extensions have
>> been disabled as a precaution.
>
> This is typical of trying to use GDM/Gnome on old hardware.
>
>
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Oh+no!+something
On 12/14/2016 06:34 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
Something else: if your motherboard has onboard video, remove the AGP
card and give onboard a go. Most motherboards of that era with Intel
CPUs and AGP slots also provide an onboard video port.
OK, the following gets p
On 12/14/2016 06:34 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
No quiet or splash in /boot/grub/grub.cfg but you give me an idea: is
there a way to copy /etc/default/grub to a memory stick, edit it on
another machine, then write it back? There is no mount command in the
grub set.
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