On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, FHDATA wrote:
hello,
I am not currently using debian as linux OS but
considering it ...
If I clean install debian (latest of course) and during
the install process have its / (system drive)
encrypted with pass-phrase
then later on, can I add a key, residing on
a us
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 16:30:29 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:57:32 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 13:08:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > On 04/15/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Did you overlook this question? You have said your machine
Le 15/04/2017 à 22:50, David Wright a écrit :
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:14:24 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 15/04/2017 à 16:28, David Wright a écrit :
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
A SD card reader such as the one the OP has just exposes the SD card
as wha
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:57:32 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 13:08:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > On 04/15/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > >Did you overlook this question? You have said your machine does not
> > >offer booting from an SD card. Your answer will be inter
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 13:16:54 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/15/2017 12:14 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >Le 15/04/2017 à 16:28, David Wright a écrit :
> >>On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>
> >>>A SD card reader such as the one the OP has just exposes the S
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:14:24 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 15/04/2017 à 16:28, David Wright a écrit :
> >On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >
> >>A SD card reader such as the one the OP has just exposes the SD card
> >>as what it is, a SD/MMC card (/dev/mmcblk
On 04/15/2017 02:16 PM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 14:55:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
[snip]
Do you have a clue what this thread is about? Or did you just
fancy that a Legacy GRUB driveby posting would perk things up
for everyone?
Careful ;)
By my measurements you post 3 times for eve
Le 15/04/2017 à 21:24, Doug a écrit :
It turns out that there are two kinds of cards that look the same, but
on a Dell laptop I have, one kind won't be recognized and the other
works. I don't remember
which is which, or what they are called. One is SD, the other something
else.
MMC, SDHC, SDXC
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 21:04:34 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 15/04/2017 à 19:42, Brian a écrit :
> >On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:20:58 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>
> >>Expert install gives more control, but is far from granting total control.
> >>The Debian installer still has many automate
On 04/15/2017 10:28 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 15/04/2017 à 02:37, David Wright a écrit :
Of course, an SD card can be
made to look like a USB stick just by sticking it in a card reader.
I guess you mean "in a USB-to-SD card adapt
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 14:55:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Richard Owlett composed on 2017-04-15 11:35 (UTC-0500):
> ...
> >I also discovered there that placing a customized grub in its own
> >partition is not only possible, but recommended in some situations. > I had
> >read somewhere that that
Le 15/04/2017 à 19:42, Brian a écrit :
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:20:58 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Expert install gives more control, but is far from granting total control.
The Debian installer still has many automated actions that you cannot
control even in expert mode.
I had a feeling whi
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 13:08:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/15/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote:
> >
> >Did you overlook this question? You have said your machine does not
> >offer booting from an SD card. Your answer will be interesting.
>
> Thought I'd answered it elsewhere.
Nope. There has
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-04-15 11:35 (UTC-0500):
...
I also discovered there that placing a customized grub in its own
partition is not only possible, but recommended in some situations. > I had
read somewhere that that option had expired with grub-legacy. That,
although taking much time
Richard Owlett wrote:
...
> I don't know how many times I've *MIS*read that last sentence ;<
> Mentally I was correcting non-existent typos, thus totally garbling it.
> I just spent several hours wandering thru grub files and loosely related
> documentation.
> I've ended up at
> www.gnu.org/softwa
On 04/15/2017 12:14 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 15/04/2017 à 16:28, David Wright a écrit :
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
A SD card reader such as the one the OP has just exposes the SD card
as what it is, a SD/MMC card (/dev/mmcblk*).
I assumed that the OP,
On 04/15/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:52:09 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 04/15/2017 05:24 AM, Brian wrote:
Now for a big "but". :)
Your previous 'Debian GNU/Linux (8.6) (on /dev/mmcblk0p1)' stanza had
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae root=/dev/mmcblk0p1
This
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:35:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/14/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >> 2. I only install Grub the *first* time I do a Debian install.
> >>By poor design Grub puts the current install first on menu.
> >>When experimenting with configuration as
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:20:58 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 15/04/2017 à 12:44, Brian a écrit :
> >
> >simple install=some control of d-i.
> >expert install=total control of d-i.
>
> Expert install gives more control, but is far from granting total control.
> The Debian installer still has
Le 15/04/2017 à 15:55, songbird a écrit :
maybe grub needs something provided by the
modules:
usbms, ehci, uhci or ohci?
Be careful if you're going to use driver modules (USB, PATA, AHCI...) to
get direct access to a device. It disables access to *all* devices
through the BIOS, including
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:52:09 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/15/2017 05:24 AM, Brian wrote:
> >
> >Now for a big "but". :)
> >
> >Your previous 'Debian GNU/Linux (8.6) (on /dev/mmcblk0p1)' stanza had
> >
> > linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae root=/dev/mmcblk0p1
> >
> >This one has
> >
>
Hi.
On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:39:49 + (UTC)
Neoklis Kyriazis wrote:
>
> >They patched gcc to produce PIE by default - and that's one of Debian
> >stretch release goals. See:
> >
> >https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition
>
>
> Ah thanks! New to Debian so I was not aw
Le 15/04/2017 à 12:44, Brian a écrit :
simple install=some control of d-i.
expert install=total control of d-i.
Expert install gives more control, but is far from granting total
control. The Debian installer still has many automated actions that you
cannot control even in expert mode.
Le 15/04/2017 à 16:28, David Wright a écrit :
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
A SD card reader such as the one the OP has just exposes the SD card
as what it is, a SD/MMC card (/dev/mmcblk*).
I assumed that the OP, writing about a laptop, had no card reader,
and
Hi.
On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:14:29 + (UTC)
david...@freevolt.org wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Reco wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 01:01:24PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:54:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >>> This started out
On 04/15/2017 05:24 AM, Brian wrote:
On Fri 14 Apr 2017 at 13:33:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 04/14/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote:
Everything GRUB knows about devices comes from what the BIOS tells it.
They are more than just good friends. :)
It appears from 'ls' at a GRUB prompt that you
On 04/14/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote:
[snip]
2. I only install Grub the *first* time I do a Debian install.
By poor design Grub puts the current install first on menu.
When experimenting with configuration as I do, the least
likely install to be functional is the latest.
This re
On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 01:01:24PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:54:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
This started out a year or so ago with the occasional site in
which lynx would report that it was unable to establish a
On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 11:05:12 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 15/04/2017 à 02:37, David Wright a écrit :
> >
> >Of course, an SD card can be
> >made to look like a USB stick just by sticking it in a card reader.
>
> I guess you mean "in a USB-to-SD card adapter", which translates a
> SD card
Hi.
On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:50:59 + (UTC)
Neoklis Kyriazis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently completed my first installation of Debian (stretch)
> and I am compiling some apps from source. I have noticed that filers
> show binaries produce by gcc as being shared library objects instea
Brian wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>
>> what i would do for grins is unplug the
>> devices other than the SSD and the installation
>> media and then do a base system (simple install
>> - not expert) and see what the installer does
>> detect and writes in the fstab and grub menu
>> (it may even bo
Brian wrote:
...
> And, more to the point, is there booting from the card without any error
> messages?
...
and as additional info you can adjust some things
in grub via editing /etc/default/grub (and running
update-grub) if you don't like how the menu is being
generated.
songbird
On Fri 14 Apr 2017 at 20:02:11 -0400, songbird wrote:
> what i would do for grins is unplug the
> devices other than the SSD and the installation
> media and then do a base system (simple install
> - not expert) and see what the installer does
> detect and writes in the fstab and grub menu
>
On Fri 14 Apr 2017 at 13:33:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/14/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote:
> >
> >Everything GRUB knows about devices comes from what the BIOS tells it.
> >They are more than just good friends. :)
> >
> >It appears from 'ls' at a GRUB prompt that your GRUB does not know abo
Le 15/04/2017 à 02:37, David Wright a écrit :
Of course, an SD card can be
made to look like a USB stick just by sticking it in a card reader.
I guess you mean "in a USB-to-SD card adapter", which translates a SD
card into a USB mass storage device (/dev/sd*).
A SD card reader such as the one
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