On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:23:22AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> What commands shall I type to find out the location of the directory where
> linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64.deb is, given the fact that I'm using a
> USB-installer?
>
df
mount
cd
ls
more cd
more ls
maybe find . -name 'linux*.deb'
Hi.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:23:22AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> What commands shall I type to find out the location of the directory
> where linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64.deb is, given the fact that I'm using
> a USB-installer?
$ wget -q
I quote a section of the Debian's man page of mount:
The move operation
Move a mounted tree to another place (atomically). The call is:
mount --move olddir newdir
This will cause the contents which previously appeared under olddir to now be
accessible under newdir. The physical location of the
On 21/07/21 11:39 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote:
No, a bind mount doesn't take a device name as an argument. It takes
two directory names. From the man page:
mount --bind|--rbind|--move olddir newdir
It's used when you've already got the device mounted somewhere (the first
directory), and
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 01:28:57PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi Reco
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 5:09 AM
> > From: "Reco"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> > Rescue Mode?
> >
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 01:28:57PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi Reco
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 5:09 AM
> > From: "Reco"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> > Rescue Mode?
> >
Hi Reco
Thanks for your help.
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 5:09 AM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> > > What you actually need is to bind mount the directory with packages into
> > >
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Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:30:10AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Greg Wooledge [2021-07-15 07:00:40] wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> >> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> >> designed systemd made
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 10:17:45AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 16 Jul 2021 at 07:31:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > I presume you type /etc/fstab into your post, both because of the
> > > missing # for the comment,
On Fri 16 Jul 2021 at 07:31:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > I presume you type /etc/fstab into your post, both because of the
> > missing # for the comment, and because the /dev/sr0 line has too
> > many fields. It should contain
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> I presume you type /etc/fstab into your post, both because of the
> missing # for the comment, and because the /dev/sr0 line has too
> many fields. It should contain udf,iso9660 user,noauto
> without spaces after the commas.
The
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 05:00, Stella Ashburne wrote:
I'm getting a sense of possible XY problem here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
> > Chicken and egg: I think the OP is trying to set up some sort of
> > repository to install packages from. (I can't be sure.
> Your guess is right.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:11:06PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:07 PM
> > From: "Reco"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> > Rescue Mode?
>
> > Ok. Can you use this
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 22:19:23 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:30 PM
> > From: "Thomas Schmitt"
> >
> > Well, since the case "already mounted" is quite outruled, it might be time
> > to explore "mount point busy".
> >
> >
> >
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 22:15:59 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:08 PM
> > From: "David Wright"
> >
> > Best I can do. (And I see that your kernel's naming of sda/sdb
> > is more stable than on at least a couple of my machines.)
> >
> What did you mean by
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:52:34 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:05 PM
> > From: "David Wright"
> >
> > Presumably given as root.
> >
> A definite yes because I chose to mount /dev/perfect-vg/root as a root file
> system in Rescue Mode.
>
> > > The error
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:15:59PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > From: "David Wright"
> > Best I can do. (And I see that your kernel's naming of sda/sdb
> > is more stable than on at least a couple of my machines.)
> >
> What did you mean by "more stable"?
The reason we strongly discourage
Hello Thomas
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:30 PM
> From: "Thomas Schmitt"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> Well, since the case "already mounted" is quite outruled, it might be time
> to explore
Hello David
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:08 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
>
> Best I can do. (And I see that your kernel's naming of sda/sdb
> is more stable than on
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:30:10AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Greg Wooledge [2021-07-15 07:00:40] wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> >> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> >> designed systemd made an "interesting"
Hi
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:07 PM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
> Ok. Can you use this rescue mode to execute an ordinary shell, with full
> access to all filesystems?
Before
Greg Wooledge [2021-07-15 07:00:40] wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
>> designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process
>> (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console
Hi,
Stella Ashburne wrote:
> root@perfect:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy
Well, since the case "already mounted" is quite outruled, it might be time
to explore "mount point busy".
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:29:53 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 3:49 PM
> > From: "David Wright"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> > Rescue Mode?
> >
> > This
> > might help the OP
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 08:38:59PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:26 PM
> > From: "Brian"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> > Rescue Mode?
> >
> > On Thu 15 Jul 2021
Hi David
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:42 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> That's right, it's the 16th deb to be installed at the main
> installation stage, but if you
Hello David,
Nice to hear from you again.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:05 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> Presumably given as root.
>
A definite yes because I chose
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 19:26:43 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:01:05 +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
>
> > root@perfect:/# file -sL /dev/sdb1
> > bash: file: command not found
> > root@perfect:/#
>
> File is a standard utilty. It should be on your system.
That's right, it's the
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:26 PM
> From: "Brian"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:01:05 +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
>
> > root@perfect:/# file -sL /dev/sdb1
> > bash:
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 3:49 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> This
> might help the OP boot the system manually and recover the blue
> Grub menu.
>
That's very nice
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:01:05 +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> root@perfect:/# file -sL /dev/sdb1
> bash: file: command not found
> root@perfect:/#
File is a standard utilty. It should be on your system.
apt install file
--
Brian.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 11:59 AM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> > Output of mount is
> >
> > root@perfect:/# mount
> > /dev/mapper/perfect--vg-root on / type ext4
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 11:43:26 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Debian Bullseye's installer is on a USB stick and I used it to boot into
> Rescue Mode. If it's of any relevance, the partition table type is GPT, with
> UEFI+Secure Boot enabled.
>
> After booting into Rescue Mode and filling out
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 14:59:36 (+0300), Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:52:12PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > > A usual thing with the modern desktop environments.
> > > Check the output of "mount" and "df -Th" and /dev/sdb1 will probably be
> > > there. I'd like to see the output of
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:00:40 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > halt the boot
> > process (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access only)
> > even if a single filesystem mentioned in fstab fails to mount.
>
> This was the
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:52:12PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > A usual thing with the modern desktop environments.
> > Check the output of "mount" and "df -Th" and /dev/sdb1 will probably be
> > there. I'd like to see the output of these commands too, btw.
> >
> Output of mount
Hi
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 9:55 AM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Next, I entered Executive
Hi guys,
There's a typo in my original post. Thanks to Reco for pointing it out to me.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM
> From: "Stella Ashburne"
> To: "debian-user mailing list"
> Subject: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode?
>
>
> When asked if I
On 2021-07-15 at 07:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>
>> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
>> designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot
>> process (i.e. host is inaccessible by network,
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:00:40AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> > designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process
> > (i.e. host is inaccessible by
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process
> (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access only) even if a
> single filesystem mentioned
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Next, I entered Executive a shell in /dev/perfect-vg/root
It's Superuser shell actually, not Supervisor/Executive one.
> I created a directory called /media/myusb and issued the following command to
> mount the USB
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