Re: [GTALUG] Table Drapes

[J. Hart via talk]

What happened to these conferences ?

Is Linux development and/or interest in Linux dying out ?


On 07/08/2019 06:04 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
Some old-timers may recall the "golden old days" when there used to be 
quasi-Linux-related conferences in large quantities, including in 
Toronto.  We once had tables at IT360 and Linux World Canada and 
such.  (This is going back YEARS!!!)


Well, we still have a set or two of black drapes that we would drape 
around the generic folding tables in order to make for an attractive 
"booth look."


Well, said drapes have not been used since 2008, and they recently 
came to visit me.


I'm not particularly keen on storing them, and in view that there's no 
longer so many conferences, there is little likelihood of them being 
used much in the next 11 years.


If anyone could make use of them, I would be pleased to help them get 
to such a place.  I haven't poked hard at the box full of drapes; I 
could get measurements if there is interest.

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question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"


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Re: [GTALUG] Making a UEFI capable debian USB net-install

[Michael Galea via talk]

On 2019-07-08 11:17 a.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 07:17:22PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:

Just completed an install of debian on a Lenovo T480 running windows, for
dual boot.
The install was made more complex by the fact that the T480 doesn't have a
CD, and that the laptop booted win10 in UEFI with secure boot.

I was very surprised by the differing consensus of how to generate a UEFI
bootable net-install. A simple dd of the image to the usb stick did NOT
result in a UEFI bootable image. What did work, was formatting the usb stick
vfat, and extracting the install iso onto it.

I found this to be a clumsy workaround. Does anybody have a better method?

Also, the literature was rife with warnings of Window's tendency to blow
away the the linux bootloader (although some claims were made that this is
less likely under UEFI). Does anyone have any experience with this, and what
what is a likely recovery procedure for it?


dd of the debian install image has always made a bootable USB key for me,
both on legacy BIOS and UEFI systems.  Of course that is dd to the disk,
not a partition on the disk.

I have not had windows 10 ever break my linux boot loader.  I don't
remember if windows 7 ever did it either because that is so long ago.
Before that it was a common problem for sure.



Thanks, I tried a plain dd first, but the Lenevo bios refused to 
recognize it as UEFI capable. Oh well..


As an aside, I noticed last night that Buster now supports secure boot, 
so I am off to try that on the T480.


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[GTALUG] Table Drapes

[Christopher Browne via talk]

Some old-timers may recall the "golden old days" when there used to be
quasi-Linux-related conferences in large quantities, including in Toronto.
We once had tables at IT360 and Linux World Canada and such.  (This is
going back YEARS!!!)

Well, we still have a set or two of black drapes that we would drape around
the generic folding tables in order to make for an attractive "booth look."

Well, said drapes have not been used since 2008, and they recently came to
visit me.

I'm not particularly keen on storing them, and in view that there's no
longer so many conferences, there is little likelihood of them being used
much in the next 11 years.

If anyone could make use of them, I would be pleased to help them get to
such a place.  I haven't poked hard at the box full of drapes; I could get
measurements if there is interest.
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Re: [GTALUG] Making a UEFI capable debian USB net-install

[Lennart Sorensen via talk]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 07:17:22PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
> Just completed an install of debian on a Lenovo T480 running windows, for
> dual boot.
> The install was made more complex by the fact that the T480 doesn't have a
> CD, and that the laptop booted win10 in UEFI with secure boot.
> 
> I was very surprised by the differing consensus of how to generate a UEFI
> bootable net-install. A simple dd of the image to the usb stick did NOT
> result in a UEFI bootable image. What did work, was formatting the usb stick
> vfat, and extracting the install iso onto it.
> 
> I found this to be a clumsy workaround. Does anybody have a better method?
> 
> Also, the literature was rife with warnings of Window's tendency to blow
> away the the linux bootloader (although some claims were made that this is
> less likely under UEFI). Does anyone have any experience with this, and what
> what is a likely recovery procedure for it?

dd of the debian install image has always made a bootable USB key for me,
both on legacy BIOS and UEFI systems.  Of course that is dd to the disk,
not a partition on the disk.

I have not had windows 10 ever break my linux boot loader.  I don't
remember if windows 7 ever did it either because that is so long ago.
Before that it was a common problem for sure.

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[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow

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# Lightning Talks

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room. When your talk gets selected, you will have five to present your idea, 
then five minutes of audience questions.

## Location

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