Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

Błażej Popławski wrote: > I saw that someone wrote, that the drivers for SD are loaded at the > booting time, so I assume that it should be straightforward: install > OS (Debian) on SD with /boot and bootloader on USB stick. Without any > additional work. We've said that boot should be on USB as

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On May 14, 2017 06:51, wrote: * Is it right to consider that there is somehow a base OS and the other VMs somehow are set up on top of it--you boot into that base OS first, and then have the ability to switch to another VM. OK, I'm thinking that is not the case--I think I've heard of things

Re: Update Notifier

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:03:31PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: > > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install > > after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, > > because after

Re: how to copy files

archive just means that? Thank Dan Ritter! l will try it later on.

Connection to ubcsecure.

I'm interested to have Debian 8 connect to ubcsecure. https://autoconnect.it.ubc.ca/xc/page4_download.html The Cloupath app works in Android. https://autoconnect.it.ubc.ca/xc/page4_download.html The analogous gadget works in the Fedora based XO system but in Jessie it detects no network. To

Re: how to copy files

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 04:57:35AM +0800, Long Wind wrote: > I have a folder in hard drive and a backup of it is made in a USB disk > Now some new files are added to the folder in hard drive > how to make the folder in USB disk the same as in hard drive? > > I want a program that can check the two

Re: how to copy files

On Sunday 14 May 2017 21:57:35 Long Wind wrote: > I have a folder in hard drive and a backup of it is made in a USB disk > Now some new files are added to the folder in hard drive > how to make the folder in USB disk the same as in hard drive? > > I want a program that can check the two folders > i

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 14/05/17 23:51, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: * Can I C&P between (applicatons in) different VMs and/or the base OS? While you can do this in emulators like VMWare Player, QEMU does not support it. A popular solution for QEMU is Spice . A sim

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 15/05/17 02:27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: For my VMs which shall be operated without graphics screen, i let qemu forward a host port (here 4567) to port 22 of the guest, where a SSH server will be set up by installation to offer login: qemu-system-x86_64 ... \ -net nic -net

how to copy files

I have a folder in hard drive and a backup of it is made in a USB disk Now some new files are added to the folder in hard drive how to make the folder in USB disk the same as in hard drive? I want a program that can check the two folders if file size and file name are same, they are regarded as sa

Re: Bug#860543: 'Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device'

Hello Ben, Thank you for your prompt response to my inquiry, and your kind assistance. My comments in-line below: On Sat, 13 May 2017 00:40:47 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 21:26 +, Larry Dighera wrote: >> Dear Mr. Hutchings, >> Todays update appears to have caused m

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Sun, 14 May 2017 07:51:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about > them. Then first you should read the manual and the FAQs. Here's the link to the Documentation page for VirtualBox, one of the more popular and easy to set up V

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > * Is it right to consider that there is somehow a base OS Normally there is a single real computer with its OS that runs virtual computers as "guests". (The Cloud might have its own habits to host VMs.) > I'm guessing that the machine boots first into the hyperv

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On Sun 14 May 2017 at 08:57:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > 1. Can I retroactively choose "include all available drivers" and > if so, how? https://wiki.debian.org/Initrd

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

Thank you. On 05/14/2017 07:09 AM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2017 04:57:07 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/14/2017 02:40 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 RavenLX wrote: On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a partition whose label is "common". I could

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On 05/14/2017 06:46 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 May 2017 at 04:57:07 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/14/2017 02:40 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 RavenLX wrote: On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a partition whose label is "common". I could

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On Sun, 14 May 2017 04:57:07 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/14/2017 02:40 AM, Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 > > RavenLX wrote: > > > >> On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> I have a partition whose label is "common". > >> > >> I could almost smack my

Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about them. Currently, I don't see much use for one--I haven't had to run Windows in a very long time, which is a good thing--I used to have to occasionally run Windows to do something that, at the time, I couldn't do in Linux--oh,

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On Sun 14 May 2017 at 04:57:07 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/14/2017 02:40 AM, Joe wrote: > >On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 > >RavenLX wrote: > > > >>On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>>I have a partition whose label is "common". > >> > >>I could almost smack myself in

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On 05/14/2017 02:40 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 RavenLX wrote: On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a partition whose label is "common". I could almost smack myself in the head. I had done that when I used to dual-boot Windows / Linux (now you can see w

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 14:28 GMT+02:00 Brian : > On Sat 13 May 2017 at 05:36:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 05/13/2017 04:59 AM, Brian wrote: >> >On Fri 12 May 2017 at 09:08:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > >> >>In your case "Why install part of the OS to the SD card if you have to have >> >>the f

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 20:44 GMT+02:00 Brian : > > On Sat 13 May 2017 at 13:07:31 +0200, Błażej Popławski wrote: > > > I don't have to do this for purpose. I was just wondering if it can be done > > without much work spent on it. > > > > This laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite A300. > > Main OS is Win7. > > I

Re: Update Notifier

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install > after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, > because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a > notification woul

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 RavenLX wrote: > On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have a partition whose label is "common". > > I could almost smack myself in the head. I had done that when I used > to dual-boot Windows / Linux (now you can see why I'm not a fan of > dua