Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-03 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 02:44:41PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > I wish that the first three emails had their replies intact and were in > the reply after quote style. Then I would print it out and frame it. As an example of newcomer coming for help and then being drown in offtopic banter? --

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > It *does* list a co-author. Funny thing is, the co-author's name seems > kinda familiar, and I'm wondering where I heard his name before. I think it's actually a franchise -- like Dread Pirate Roberts. Westley:Well, Roberts had grown so

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-02 Thread Simon Walter
I wish that the first three emails had their replies intact and were in the reply after quote style. Then I would print it out and frame it. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:54:20 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > > > Someone did, as I expect you already know. Here's Eric Stephen > > Raymond's version: > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > All I can say is that Eric Steven

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread mett
On 2021年2月2日 10:54:20 JST, Rick Moen wrote: >Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > >> Someone did, as I expect you already know. Here's Eric Stephen >> Raymond's version: >> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > >All I can say is that Eric Steven Raymond's version

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > Someone did, as I expect you already know. Here's Eric Stephen > Raymond's version: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html All I can say is that Eric Steven Raymond's version would be _much_ better with a co-author credited right

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 12:02:34PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Adrian Zaugg (devuan@mailgurgler.com): > > > It is difficult to help, if you don't write what you exactly donwloaded, > > how you tried to install, on what system etc. It is somehow like: "I ate > > somethin' for dinner and

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > I'm old, but I seem to remember a web page with a similar name. Years > ago, I wrote those guys who run the web page, with my patented, > always-succeeds method of getting an answer on a technical mailing > list, and those guys didn't want to put

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 12:02:34 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Adrian Zaugg (devuan@mailgurgler.com): > > > It is difficult to help, if you don't write what you exactly > > donwloaded, how you tried to install, on what system etc. It is > > somehow like: "I ate somethin' for dinner and now I

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Antony Stone (antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it): > On Monday 01 February 2021 at 21:02:34, Rick Moen wrote: > > > I think someone should write an online essay called something like 'How > > to Ask Questions the Smart Way', to help such folks. > > https://xkcd.com/927/ As the actual

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Antony Stone
On Monday 01 February 2021 at 21:02:34, Rick Moen wrote: > I think someone should write an online essay called something like 'How > to Ask Questions the Smart Way', to help such folks. https://xkcd.com/927/ Antony :) -- Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes - they are "zero

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I was having the same trouble recently and it turned out to be attempting to run a beowulf guest on an ascii host. I am running kvm. Kernel version issues in the the version 4 kernel not seeming to like to run under a version 3 kernel I think. I spun up an experimental host running beowulf

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adrian Zaugg (devuan@mailgurgler.com): > It is difficult to help, if you don't write what you exactly donwloaded, > how you tried to install, on what system etc. It is somehow like: "I ate > somethin' for dinner and now I have stomach ache. Please help me!!!" – > what would you

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi Budi It is difficult to help, if you don't write what you exactly donwloaded, how you tried to install, on what system etc. It is somehow like: "I ate somethin' for dinner and now I have stomach ache. Please help me!!!" – what would you answer? Reading that on a mailing list you probably would

[DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-01-24 Thread Budi via Dng
How to install Devuan Beowolf Tried to have it booted out of usb and automatically run fast but but only got "initramfs" shell prompt Please help me!!! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng