Hi,
On 2021-08-15 3:13 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Hi.
> After I put EFI in sda1 Refracta installer was not satisfied and told me
> to put 'boot installer' in, and write some (unspecified) text in fstab,
> but wasn't in ETC.
>
> How and what to write in fstab?
>
> You tell me to specify question.
> How to specify a total mess?
> I'm trying to put a (Debian fork), Devuan x86_64 installed, in a ssd 1T
> external drive connected with usb to my old Mac (with dual boot Linux
> mint i386 -works, but cannot Zoom/Skype) +Devuan('boots' blinking ? only).
> After installed x86_64 almost finished with gdisk, Refracta asks me to
> put in 'boot installer'. I thought it was EFI(, that I put in sda1) ?
> Saw a message:
> "Efi not supported." In Devuan(?).
> But Mint said it would only EFI it,
> & then it worked. But only in 32b.
> Debian and Devuan obviously don't mix with Mint. And vice versa. Why
> not, really? You can learn around Efi & Grub from each other. Now you're
> both leaving it all up to Rod Smith.
> But to me it seems a bit too much for 1 man/team. Is Linux necessary to
> be such a mess ?Just as a note, you don't have to use a specific distribution (like in your case trying to use Refracta, that is a fork of Devuan, that is itself a fork of Debian). Debian runs pretty good with XFCE and many people use such desktop environment on this mailing list. -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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