Re: [DNG] net-install troubles [SOLVED]

2020-07-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Turns out tha the trouble was because i was trying to run the install from a muli-boot usb stick. found another smaller usb stick and dd’d the image to the stick. the install was then successfull. the installer didn’t work whe the is was loaded from grub on the stick. could be a feature or a

[DNG] FYI, was net-install troubles

2020-07-01 Thread terryc
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:20:19 + Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to the mailing list, but not new to devuan. I've been running > devuan ascii in production for a couple of years. I really like the > product. My system is so much more stable without systemd and all the > bull as

Re: [DNG] net-install troubles

2020-07-01 Thread Ozi Traveller via Dng
The non-free firmware is here: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-linux-nonfree_20190114-2_all.deb On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:31 AM Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:20:19PM +, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm new to th

[DNG] terminal paste failure

2020-07-01 Thread Haines Brown
Last night for some reason I can no lonter paste text selected in nano to another nano document with the middle mouse button. It seems to have failed in the course of the night. I've been running Beowulf ever since the beta. I don't have a desktop environment but rely on fluxbox for window mana

Re: [DNG] net-install troubles

2020-07-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:20:19PM +, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to the mailing list, but not new to devuan. I've been running devuan > ascii in production for a couple of years. I really like the product. My > system is so much more stable without systemd and all the bu

Re: [DNG] net-install troubles

2020-07-01 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:20:19PM +, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > I've been trying to use the net-install from a USB stick on a system that > does not have a CD-ROM attacted. It has been a failure. I assume that by net-install, you mean an amd64 netinst of beowulf, right? If not, then ple

Re: [DNG] Non-systemd Linux for older hardware (was: Devuan Jessie End of Life (EOL) archiving)

2020-07-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:18:37PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi! > > spiralofhope - 01.07.20, 05:53:38 CEST: > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:53:19 +0200 > > > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote: > > > A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot > > > upgrade, there is still

[DNG] net-install troubles

2020-07-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Hello, I'm new to the mailing list, but not new to devuan. I've been running devuan ascii in production for a couple of years. I really like the product. My system is so much more stable without systemd and all the bull associated with Ubuntu. I've been trying to use the net-install from a USB s

Re: [DNG] Non-systemd Linux for older hardware (was: Devuan Jessie End of Life (EOL) archiving)

2020-07-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! spiralofhope - 01.07.20, 05:53:38 CEST: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:53:19 +0200 > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote: > > A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot > > upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to > > 80486. And they, too, are systemd-fr

[DNG] Non-systemd Linux for older hardware (was: Devuan Jessie End of Life (EOL) archiving)

2020-07-01 Thread spiralofhope
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:53:19 +0200 "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote: > A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot > upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to > 80486. And they, too, are systemd-free :) It's been a while, but I wonder if Slackware would

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie End of Life (EOL) archiving

2020-07-01 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
It's been a long journey - may it rest in peace. A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to 80486. And they, too, are systemd-free :) https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/i386.html https://www.openbsd.org

[DNG] Devuan Jessie End of Life (EOL) archiving

2020-07-01 Thread Mark Hindley
Friends, On 30th June 2020, Debian was scheduled to end its Long Term Support (LTS) for Debian 8 ('Jessie')[1]. As a result, the Devuan Project will be archiving its first release, codename Jessie. Since Jessie will receive no further maintenance or updates (including security fixes), it will be