Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread David Christensen
On 08/15/2018 10:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: I recommend: 1.  Get a small, fast, high-quality SSD to use as the system drive. Connect it to motherboard port SATA6G_1. 2.  Connect the optical drive to SATA6G_2. 3.  Do a fresh install of

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread David Christensen
On 08/15/2018 12:27 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/08/2018 à 05:36, David Christensen a écrit : On 08/12/2018 11:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Mind to explain why should /boot be on a separate partition ? Primarily because I often use dm-crypt on swap and root; Plain dm-crypt or LUKS ?

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Aug 2018 at 21:08:50 (+0200), john doe wrote: > On 8/15/2018 7:19 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > >On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >>On 08/11/2018 08:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >>>I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. > >>> > >>>I am

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread john doe
On 8/15/2018 7:19 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/11/2018 08:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/11/2018 08:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/08/2018 à 21:27, Dan Ritter a écrit : On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 08:01:08PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : 3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition manually, creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/08/2018 à 21:38, Michael Wagner a écrit : On Aug 12, 2018 at 20:01:08, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Mind to explain why should /boot be on a separate partition ? when you have /boot on a seperate partition, you can mount it read-only and only when kernel updates arrives, you mount it

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/08/2018 à 05:36, David Christensen a écrit : On 08/12/2018 11:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Mind to explain why should /boot be on a separate partition ? Primarily because I often use dm-crypt on swap and root; Plain dm-crypt or LUKS ? boot must be unencrypted. Only if using

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:36:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 08/12/2018 11:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : > >> > >>3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition > >>manually,

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-14 Thread David Christensen
On 08/12/2018 11:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : 3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition manually, creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and root (10 GB). Mind to explain why should /boot be on a

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-12 Thread Michael Wagner
On Aug 12, 2018 at 20:01:08, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : > > > > 3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition manually, > > creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and root (10 > > GB). > > Mind to explain why

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 08:01:08PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : > > > > 3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition manually, > > creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and root > > (10 GB). > > Mind to

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : 3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition manually, creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and root (10 GB). Mind to explain why should /boot be on a separate partition ?

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > This answers my question. Today grub is using uuid to find out which drive it needs to boot from. On my hobby server I have 8 drives in raid1 and when the storage (LSI) comes up some times some drives are initialized before others, but using UUID instead sda, sdb etc

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: Stephen P. Molnar Sent: Sunday, 12 August 2018 7:20 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Hrdware question On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/11/2018 08:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 08/11/2018 08:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have what I thought was a simple question, but Google has

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/11/2018 03:17 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2018-08-11 11:19 (UTC-0400): I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Shea Alterio
I have not gone thru OP's motherboard manual, but on my HP workstation, the ports are numbered _0 thru _5 and if only one drive is plugged in total then it will be /dev/sda. However if two or more are plugged in then the _0 is sda.

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2018-08-11 11:19 (UTC-0400): > I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. > I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a > question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. > I have what I thought was a simple question,

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/11/2018 12:22 PM, john doe wrote: On 8/11/2018 5:19 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have what I

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread john doe
On 8/11/2018 5:19 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have what I thought was a simple question, but Google has

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 August 2018 11:19:19 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. > > I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a > question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. > > I have what I thought was a simple

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:19:19AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. > > I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a > question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97

Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have what I thought was a simple question, but Google has not been a friend to me. What I found via that