Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Ludovic Bellière
On mer, 19 mai 2021, terryc wrote: > Normally I wouldn't consider it(risk a working system), but having > recently received two new boxen following the release of majic smoke > from the mail server, I'm actually in the position to do this on new > naked hardware. The global chip shortage meant I h

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Gregory Nowak via Dng
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:15:50PM +1000, terryc wrote: > I understand the easiest method to install chimaera is a minimal > beowulf install and the the usual dist-grade route. As outline by > Florian about a month ago. (TY) There is a netinst image available for both amd64 and x86 of Chimaera on

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread terryc
On Tue, 18 May 2021 11:38:50 +0200 Ludovic Bellière wrote: > On mar, 18 mai 2021, onefang wrote: > > I recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT card. Your 5700 might > > be too new for Beowulf, I had to jump through some hoops te get my > > 5600 working fully. Using the 5.10 kernel from Beowulf

Re: [DNG] Collaboration between distros [WAS: FSF and human rights]

2021-05-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 17.05.21 21:35, Alexis PM via Dng wrote: Standardise the format in which developers publicly offer for download the code for new versions of the software they create, would make packaging (or port/ebuild creation) easier for distros, freeing up time that can be spent on other things. Standa

Re: [DNG] Collaboration between distros [WAS: FSF and human rights]

2021-05-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 17.05.21 02:32, Steve Litt wrote: Imagine if > systemd took over that one package manager, eliminating the possibility> of Linux without systemd? uh, dont say it too loud - Lennart could get bad ideas ;-) --mtx -- --- Hinweis: unverschlüsselte E-Mails können leicht abgehört und manipuliert

Re: [DNG] Collaboration between distros [WAS: FSF and human rights]

2021-05-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 17.05.21 20:39, Alexis PM via Dng wrote: I am talking about the format in which developers publicly offer for download the code for new versions of the software they create. Actually, that had been one of the original topics of the OSS-QM project: a database of packages, releases, downloa

Re: [DNG] Collaboration between distros [WAS: FSF and human rights]

2021-05-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 16.05.21 22:35, Alexis PM via Dng wrote: Hi, Standardize the package format of the released versions of each free software project would be a total and desirable revolution. Note that I'm *no way* proposing some standardized package format, especially NOT for binary distribution/deploymen

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 17/5/21 9:31 pm, terryc wrote: > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system > automa

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Ludovic Bellière
On mar, 18 mai 2021, onefang wrote: > I recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT card. Your 5700 might be too > new for Beowulf, I had to jump through some hoops te get my 5600 working > fully. Using the 5.10 kernel from Beowulf-backports, Mesa drivers and a > bunch of related libraries from a th