[qubes-users] suggestion for quakity assurance of documentation

2018-04-04 Thread kai . froeb
greetings! while taking first steps with new qubes 4.0, i find that some of the great documentation articles in qubes-os.org are no more 100% accurate for qubes 4.0 (see my previous post on usage of kernel 4.16 for an example). this is quite expectable, given that both the api as well as the

[qubes-users] using bleeding edge 4.16 kernel in qubes for extra protection against spectre and meltdown?

2018-04-04 Thread kai . froeb
Greetings! and thank you for qubes 4.0 which seems to be even better for every day usage than 3,2 :-). I am aware that usually, distributions are prudent to use latest kernels for some reasons, however, for an ultra security conscious project like qubes the trade off of not inszalling latest

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4 won't boot on Thinkpad T430

2018-04-04 Thread kai . froeb
Greetings, I can report that i was able to install (and boot) the Qubes 4 final without any problems out of the box (no extra boot option) on my Lenovo Thinkpad T430, while installing Qubes 4 from an external dvd drive. The same notebook already worked without problems with qubes 3.2 final. i

Re: [qubes-users] installation failure hen trying to instal from usb to samsung sad on lenovo 220

2018-03-30 Thread kai . froeb
Hi Marek, I am using this tool http://www.easy2boot.com/ to create my bootable usb, it is very easy to use, you just copy one or more iso image on the usb in the correct directory (e.g. linux or windows) and then run a little windows cmd script and the usb is ready for use. it has an inbuilt

Re: [qubes-users] installation failure hen trying to instal from usb to samsung sad on lenovo 220

2018-03-30 Thread kai . froeb
And, btw, yes I am/was using default paritioning. The same error occured both when trying to install from an empty samsung ssd, freshly arrived and unpacked from amazon, as well as when i tried to install q4 on the same samsung drive after i had susccessfully installed qubes 3.2 on it (which

Re: [qubes-users] installation failure hen trying to instal from usb to samsung sad on lenovo 220

2018-03-30 Thread kai . froeb
[...] > Can you extract logs from that system? The error message should have a > button to switch you to text console, then you'll find full error > message in /tmp/anaconda-tb-(something) file. You might want to > review/edit this file before posting it - it contains a lot of details > about your

[qubes-users] installation failure when trying rc5 or final iso on lenovo x220 with samsung ssd as target

2018-03-29 Thread kai . froeb
may be it is worth to add that the very same hardware combination worked flawlessly when trying to install qubes 3.2 instead (just tried again to make sure) btw, i also apreciated that version 3.2 installer supports so many different langauges apart from english. hope that helps kai -- You

[qubes-users] installation failure when trying rc5 or final iso on lenovo x220 with samsung ssd as target

2018-03-29 Thread kai . froeb
may be it is worth to add that the very same hardware combination worked flwlessly when trying to install qubes 3.2 instead (just tried again to make sure) hope that helps kai -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe

[qubes-users] installation failure when trying rc5 or final iso on lenovo x220 with samsung ssd as target

2018-03-29 Thread kai . froeb
greetings, i copied the current iso (tried it.both with rc5 and with today final official iso) to a 32gb usb stick and made my lenovo x220 boot from it. all went well until i choosed to habe the newly installed samsung 512gb ssd as target (it was listed in the graphic menu of the available

[qubes-users] installation failure hen trying to instal from usb to samsung sad on lenovo 220

2018-03-29 Thread kai . froeb
greetings, i copied the current iso (tried it.both with rc5 and with today final official iso) to a 32gb usb stick and made my lenovo x220 boot from it. all went well until i choosed to habe the newly installed samsung 512gb ssd as target (it was listed in the graphic menu of the available

Re: [qubes-users] installation failure when trying to install q4 rc5 from usb to usb

2018-03-29 Thread kai . froeb
noone interested in this bug? same bug also happend with today final odficial version 4 final when trying to install kt on a ssd. so it seems more generic and important than i fist thought. so i will issue a new bug report on that one, because it is now no more limite to usb stick as target

Re: [qubes-users] installation failure when trying to install q4 rc5 from usb to usb

2018-03-23 Thread kai . froeb
Hi Unman, the error message is "ValueError: Device 'sdc4' not in tree", what is puzzeling, when I select the target media directly from the graphical list of proposed instalation media. The last line in anaconda, causing the problem is File "/usr/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/devicetree.py",

[qubes-users] installation failure when trying to install q4 rc5 from usb to usb

2018-03-20 Thread kai . froeb
greetings! when i noticed that the new rc5 did so far not generate any serius bug report so far, i thought to myself that now may be the time to give it a new try (rc1 wasnot usable for me, so since then, i did not touch the rcs until now). i had the idea to use my lenovo t430, which works

[qubes-users] Looking for Qubes OS-Users in Munich-Germany

2017-11-24 Thread kai . froeb
btw, i know of at least one more person using qubes os in Munich (even selling laptops with preinstaled qubes os 3.2) Al the best Kai -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[qubes-users] Looking for Qubes OS-Users in Munich-Germany

2017-11-24 Thread kai . froeb
Hi Knut, I am using Qubes Os (version 3.2, however, can't get Qubes 4rc* to work, so far) and am living in Munich. You, as well as other Qubes users in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, are free contact me on Qubes Os issues (I am only a user, though). I am using Qubes on a thinkpad T430 with 16 gb