Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:28:43 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > ...and we end up with something of the same complexity of the current > debian-installer. Of course you do. The same questions must be answered either way. The distinction is that one way you're guaranteed a working kernel and bootable OS

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:10:20 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 + > > g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > > Configure mountpoints > > > Install Bootloader > > > Install Kernel,

[DNG] randomness

2018-12-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! This appears to be another reason for sysvinit or any other init system that actually uses the seed file to let the kernel start with enough entropy: Daniel Lange: Openssh taking minutes to become available, booting takes half an hour ... because your server waits for a few bytes of

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:28:43 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <20181216122843.2lg34abliiena...@katolaz.homeunix.net>: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 07:08:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > > > > > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > > > > Configure

Re: [DNG] firefox-esr: no sound after dist-upgrade

2018-12-17 Thread ghostlands via Dng
I know this thread is three months old and the bugs with FF60 have been addressed, but I thought it might be useful to add that apulse is a fine working solution, especially for users averse (as I am) to PulseAudio. The instructions at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/09/msg00263.html

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-17 Thread g4sra via Dng
On 17/12/2018 00:41, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 16/12/18 at 13:28, KatolaZ wrote: >> automagic disk encryption, > > >   Well, if you cannot install on an encrypted root, encrypting it later > is a real PITA. > >   The present impossibility of installing ASCII on an encrypted root is > a