Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-22 Thread Hans
I believe, k3b and brasero are just GUIs for wodim. Best Hans

Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-22 Thread davidson
On Sat, 19 May 2018, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 19/05/18 11:36 AM, Herb Garcia wrote: Hey everyone, I'm running Mate on my laptop. I don't see a CD/DVD burning software that came with the build. Any suggestions? I use wodim.  This is a command-line utility; if you're into that, it works a trea

Re: Linux system

2018-05-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 23/05/18 11:36, Anhony wrote: Hi support Could you please send to me the instructions for using UEFI to install Linux such a debian, in place of Windows 10 onto a laptop. I have used BIOS many times, butmy laptop has UEFI and I have no idea how to use it. I need the instructions from start

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Curious .. Why do I get two of every posting. What setting do I need to > change.. Thanks Jerry Search for the "Skip every other posting" option. Stefan

Linux system

2018-05-22 Thread Anhony
Hi support Could you please send to me the instructions for using UEFI to install Linux such a debian, in place of Windows 10 onto a laptop. I have used BIOS many times, butmy laptop has UEFI and I have no idea how to use it. I need the instructions from start to finish including final saving

Re: lightdm (testing): Long waiting time after login

2018-05-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 22/05/18 19:50, Dino wrote: I can confirm that libbsd/0.8.7-1.1 fixes the problem here, too. Great! I also found that xfce4-terminal hangs in getrandom if started immediately after boot and lightdm login. This one is not fixed by the libsdb upgrade. I have reported it: Bug#899271: xfce4

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread Jerome Kutche
Curious .. Why do I get two of every posting. What setting do I need to change.. Thanks Jerry On 5/22/2018 2:29 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 22/05/2018 à 00:12, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : On Mon, 21 May 2018 23:18:50 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: Le 21/05/2018 à 22:09, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> For example? > > Any operational requirement which prohibits unplanned downtime caused by > a disk failure. Do I really need to write such obviousness ? Call it > "mission critical" if you like. > >> As I have said previously, swap mirroring can be plausible for a missi

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/05/2018 à 20:55, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : On Tue, 22 May 2018 20:29:21 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: I understand that your use case does not require swap redundancy. I hope that you also understand that other people may have stronger requirements, For example? Any operational req

Re: How does "making VPN accessible" works?

2018-05-22 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hello. Sorry for taking too long to reply. I had a lot going on lately. And thanks for your reply. I thought I'm on my own with this. I decided to go over it once again. Last time it was the other hosting (VMWare virtual machine). This time it's virtual machine on a VPS hosting with Xen virtualiz

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/05/18 06:29, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > I understand that your use case does not require swap redundancy. > I hope that you also understand that other people may have stronger > requirements and your statement about swap mirroring was wrong for them, > thus wrong in general (what is not always

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/05/2018 à 00:12, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : On Mon, 21 May 2018 23:18:50 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: Le 21/05/2018 à 22:09, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : I would agree mirroring swap for a mission critical server. Otherwise it would be an overkill, IMO. If one of the non-mirrored

Re: Hard Drive Encryption

2018-05-22 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 22/05/2018 19:25, Matthew Crews wrote: On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:33:17 AM MST you wrote: It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian? HP Garcia Yes, using any number of tools, including LUKS. Is it possible to encrypt your root partition at any time? Not while the system

Re: Encrypted containers & the Debian installer.

2018-05-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 May 2018 at 00:32:14 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: > On 05/18/2018 08:35 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 17 May 2018 at 22:24:01 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 May 2018 07:42:42 -0700 David Wright > >> wrote > >> > On Tue 15 May 2018 at 23:05:10 (-0700), Dia

Re: O/S upgrade - dpkg still shows old version for some packages

2018-05-22 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 20:50 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2018 13:06:37 -0400 Greg Wooledge said: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:29:53AM +, John Horne wrote: > > > dpkg -p nodejs > > > ... > > > Version: 0.10.37-1chl1~lucid1 > > > > > > nodejs -v > > > v4.8.2 > > > > You

Re: Hard Drive Encryption

2018-05-22 Thread Teemu Likonen
Herb Garcia [2018-05-22 06:33:17-07] wrote: > It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian? As others have already told the tool/system is LUKS. If by "anytime" you mean convert a running system and partition then the answer is no. You must create a new encrypted partition, open th

Re: Hard Drive Encryption

2018-05-22 Thread Matthew Crews
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:33:17 AM MST you wrote: > It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian? > > HP Garcia Yes, using any number of tools, including LUKS. Is it possible to encrypt your root partition at any time? Not while the system is running, as far as I know. If it is,

Re: Hard Drive Encryption

2018-05-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
yes, with luks. ti 22. toukok. 2018 klo 16.34 Herb Garcia kirjoitti: > It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian? > > HP Garcia > >

Hard Drive Encryption

2018-05-22 Thread Herb Garcia
It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian? HP Garcia

Re: Encrypted containers & the Debian installer.

2018-05-22 Thread 21naown
Le 16/05/2018 à 08:05, Diagonal Arg a écrit : On my first tries with the Debian installer, I am struggling with the limited resources for installing to encrypted disks. I am using the same technique I have used with Ubuntu, but failing at the last step: I create my luks disk(s) before-hand, t

Re: O/S upgrade - dpkg still shows old version for some packages

2018-05-22 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 13:06 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:29:53AM +, John Horne wrote: > > dpkg -p nodejs > > ... > > Version: 0.10.37-1chl1~lucid1 > > > > nodejs -v > > v4.8.2 > > You probably have nodejs installed locally, outside of the packaging > system. What do

Re: Nvidia, BOINC and Steam

2018-05-22 Thread Francisco M Neto
On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 22:46 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. > > I've been working with a stable Debian for a few years now (three > major > releases), with backports depots for a few tools I use regularly. I > need a proprietary Nvidia driver for essentially two things : Steam, > because I'm

Re: lightdm (testing): Long waiting time after login

2018-05-22 Thread Dino
On 21.05.2018 05:25 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 19/05/18 13:07, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 19/05/18 11:28, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: The cause is xfce4-session. I will file a bug report. Bug#899080: xfce4-session hangs in getrandom if crng not ready https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Re: Encrypted containers & the Debian installer.

2018-05-22 Thread Dev Rana
On 05/18/2018 08:35 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 17 May 2018 at 22:24:01 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: >> On Wed, 16 May 2018 07:42:42 -0700 David Wright >> wrote >> > On Tue 15 May 2018 at 23:05:10 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: >> > > >> > > On my first tries with the Debian in

Re: Encrypted containers & the Debian installer.

2018-05-22 Thread Diagonal Arg
On 05/18/2018 08:35 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 17 May 2018 at 22:24:01 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: >> On Wed, 16 May 2018 07:42:42 -0700 David Wright >> wrote >> > On Tue 15 May 2018 at 23:05:10 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: >> > > >> > > On my first tries with the Debian in

Encrypted containers & the Debian installer.

2018-05-22 Thread Diagonal Arg
On 05/18/2018 08:35 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 17 May 2018 at 22:24:01 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: >> On Wed, 16 May 2018 07:42:42 -0700 David Wright >> wrote >> > On Tue 15 May 2018 at 23:05:10 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote: >> > > >> > > On my first tries with the Debian in