Re: Installing Debian with preseed file using qemu

2018-11-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:44:08PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 11/6/2018 5:05 PM, john doe wrote: > > On 11/6/2018 4:02 PM, Reco wrote: > >>Hi. > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:04:25PM +0100, john doe wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm trying to install Debian Stretch using a pre

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > > which shall pull in the tray and wait until the drive is ready, does not > > work any more. Dan Ritter wrote: > Is this approximately equivalent to `eject -t` ? Yes. And equivalently broken. Only burn programs still do wait for the

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > i have to add that the example gesture > > $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > > which shall pull in the tray and wait until the drive is ready, does not > work any more. Is this approximately equivalent to `eject -t` ? -dsr-

Re: Installing Debian with preseed file using qemu

2018-11-06 Thread john doe
On 11/6/2018 5:05 PM, john doe wrote: > On 11/6/2018 4:02 PM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:04:25PM +0100, john doe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to install Debian Stretch using a preseeding file. >>> All of this is with Qemu and I'm not sure how to pass the path of

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i have to add that the example gesture $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 which shall pull in the tray and wait until the drive is ready, does not work any more. I was using a very fine kernel 2.6 for many years. Now i am on younger ones which got probably broken 10 years ago by

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > The cdrecord "personality" is used to present a familiar > legacy syntax? It helped a lot to get people to trying it out. > Can the same result be reached using xorriso with no personality? No. The cdrecord emulation option interface is the only way to achieve the classical division bet

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Nov 2018 at 00:52:28 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > If you're using a netinst, you're *really* expected to use a > mirror. If you're not, you should know what you're doing to fix > any issues you find like this. Section 6.3.5.1.2. of the Guide does say > One question that will be aske

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Nov 2018 at 17:25:16 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-11-06, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > That said, the bootable business card image is the smallest download > > available to install debian without having to mess with a netboot > > configuration. You can still use the mini iso with a nor

dovecot/RPi trouble, more info

2018-11-06 Thread Glenn English
I installed Dovecot on a local laptop running Buster. With no futzing at all, it works: ghe@sbox:~$ telnet gb 143 Trying 216.17.134.202... Connected to gobook3.slsware.net. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED]

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-06 Thread peter
Thanks to all who have replied. * From: "Thomas Schmitt" * Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 18:48:45 +0100 > Writing the tar stream to DVD-R is a classical use case of cdrecord or wodim. > So: > > tar -vcpzf - * | xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 -eject fs=16m - OK, thanks. The cdreco

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-06, Michael Stone wrote: > > That said, the bootable business card image is the smallest download > available to install debian without having to mess with a netboot > configuration. You can still use the mini iso with a normal cd, or via > virtual drive, etc. I used to always keep a

Re: dovecot, openssl, TLS1.0

2018-11-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 18:11:54 +0100 Michael Wagner wrote: Hello Michael, >You must change /etc/aliases, when an MTA is installed. >Hth Michael I knew it was something simple. Thanks Michael. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediate

Re: dovecot, openssl, TLS1.0

2018-11-06 Thread Michael Wagner
On Nov 06, 2018 at 16:43:57, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:15:48 + Jan Foniok wrote: > >Is there a package that needs to be installed for that to happen? > > I believe that exim is installed (at least in part) for this. > > > >On my postfix installation there is no sysadmin alias

dovecot/RPi problem

2018-11-06 Thread Glenn English
there: RaspianStretch, Dovecot v 2.2.27, RPi3 here: Buster, Thunderbird, Supermicro box Dovecot, from here to there, answers as expected, then immediately closes the connection. I'm trying to replace a low-end Dell server running Wheezy with an RPi3 (significant space savings in a very small serv

Re: dovecot, openssl, TLS1.0

2018-11-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:15:48 + Jan Foniok wrote: Hello Jan, >Is there a package that needs to be installed for that to happen? I believe that exim is installed (at least in part) for this. > >On my postfix installation there is no sysadmin alias (there is system, I didn't mean sysadmin lite

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Nov 2018 at 09:19:22 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 06 Nov 2018 at 09:57:03 (+), Brian wrote: > > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 23:29:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 21:11:46 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > > > PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" wit

Re: Installing Debian with preseed file using qemu

2018-11-06 Thread john doe
On 11/6/2018 4:02 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:04:25PM +0100, john doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install Debian Stretch using a preseeding file. >> All of this is with Qemu and I'm not sure how to pass the path of the >> preseed file: >> >> qemu-system-x86_64

Re: Raid 0

2018-11-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > On ter, 06 nov 2018, Finariu Florin wrote: > >  Hi, > > Somebody can help me with some information about why I can not see the > > Raid0 created in bios? > > I have a motherboard EPC602D8A with 2 chipsets: Intel C602 (Sata 2 x 4, > > Sata 3 x 2) and Marvell SE9172 (Sata 3 x

Re: dovecot, openssl, TLS1.0

2018-11-06 Thread Jan Foniok
Hello, > On 5 Nov 2018, at 21:19, Brad Rogers wrote: >> In spite of some effort I haven't found this sysadmin. Can you please >> give me some pointers... > > Important information regarding an update, such as a change in default > behaviour of a package, is emailed to the sysadmin user. This i

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 09:09:16AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I was reading about swap recently and fell upon (like a sword) this remark from 2005 from Andrew Morton: Create the swapfile when the filesystem is young and empty, it'll be nice and contiguous. Once created the kernel will nev

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 09:03:59AM +, Curt wrote: I never knew what a bootable business card was so I avoided those. If you trim a cd so it's rectangle you end up with a business-card size disc which holds about 50MB. Their main drawbacks are that 1) nobody has a cd drive anymore and 2) p

Re: Installing Debian with preseed file using qemu

2018-11-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:04:25PM +0100, john doe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian Stretch using a preseeding file. > All of this is with Qemu and I'm not sure how to pass the path of the > preseed file: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=debian.img,format=raw -cdrom

Re: Some things related to installation medias

2018-11-06 Thread Juan Francisco Giménez Silva
El 6/11/18 a las 11:38 a. m., Hans escribió: Hi folks, there are some things, appearing during installation, I I want to mention. 1. On the installation medias (debian/stable) are always the kernels of the stable repository. However, it appears from time to time, that hardware on actual no

Re: jupyter notebook immediately crashes with dead kernel

2018-11-06 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/05/2018 06:14 PM: > vipul kumar wrote on 11/05/2018 05:35 PM: >> Run Jupyter-notebook from terminal. Send log report which you'll get on >> terminal while running jupyter-notebook. >> > > > [HN:~] jupyter-notebook > [I 18:11:04.210 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from loca

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

2018-11-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:42:39PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:24:22PM -0500, David Parker wrote: > > Thanks for the information. I guess I'm just surprised that the > > dependencies are limited to firefox/firefox-esr/chromium. Seems like other > > bro

Some things related to installation medias

2018-11-06 Thread Hans
Hi folks, there are some things, appearing during installation, I I want to mention. 1. On the installation medias (debian/stable) are always the kernels of the stable repository. However, it appears from time to time, that hardware on actual notebooks are not supported by the installation ke

Re: Raid 0

2018-11-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On ter, 06 nov 2018, Finariu Florin wrote:  Hi, Somebody can help me with some information about why I can not see the Raid0 created in bios? I have a motherboard EPC602D8A with 2 chipsets: Intel C602 (Sata 2 x 4, Sata 3 x 2) and Marvell SE9172 (Sata 3 x 2). I create in BIOS a Raid0 on Marv

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Nov 2018 at 09:57:03 (+), Brian wrote: > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 23:29:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 21:11:46 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a > > > network connection to a mirror ?

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was reading about swap recently and fell upon (like a sword) this > remark from 2005 from Andrew Morton: > > Create the swapfile when the filesystem is young and empty, it'll be > nice and contiguous. Once created the kernel will never add or > remove blocks. He's talking about swap *fi

Installing Debian with preseed file using qemu

2018-11-06 Thread john doe
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian Stretch using a preseeding file. All of this is with Qemu and I'm not sure how to pass the path of the preseed file: qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=debian.img,format=raw -cdrom debian-9.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d -nographic -kernel vmlinuz -append "console=tt

Re: Raid 0

2018-11-06 Thread gosho
На 2018-11-06 15:49, Finariu Florin написа: Hi, Somebody can help me with some information about why I can not see the Raid0 created in bios? I have a motherboard EPC602D8A with 2 chipsets: Intel C602 (Sata 2 x 4, Sata 3 x 2) and Marvell SE9172 (Sata 3 x 2). I create in BIOS a Raid0 on Marvel and

Re: Raid 0

2018-11-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:49:32PM +, Finariu Florin wrote: > Hi, >Somebody can help me with some information about why I can not see the >Raid0 created in bios? >I have a motherboard EPC602D8A with 2 chipsets: Intel C602 (Sata 2 x 4, >Sata 3 x 2) and Marvell SE9172 (Sata 3

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

2018-11-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:24:22PM -0500, David Parker wrote: Thanks for the information. I guess I'm just surprised that the dependencies are limited to firefox/firefox-esr/chromium. Seems like other browsers like Iceweasel are just arbitrarily left out. This is partially because we don't ha

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 23:29:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 21:11:46 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a > > network connection to a mirror ? > > I've never used netboot as it's too complicated to bother

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-06 09:03, Curt wrote: On 2018-11-05, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a network connection to a mirror ? There used to be bootable business card netinst images t

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-05, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a >>network connection to a mirror ? > > There used to be bootable business card netinst images that had almost > nothing ot

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

2018-11-06 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Debian 9.5 (amd64) and attempting to uninstall firefox-esr. > However, apt says that gnome and gnome-core are among the packages which > will also be uninstalled. Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends o