Re: Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

On 10/5/20 1:24 pm, Harry Brown wrote: Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing KaliLinux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed *Oracle VirtualBox* on my *Windows 10* and downloaded *Kali Linux 64bit ISO file*, Then I created a new virtual machine *(De

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

On Sat, 09 May 2020 20:05:48 -0700 "Rick Thomas" wrote: > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4 30G 9.9G 19G 36% / > /dev/sda2 ext2 248M 78M 158M 34% /boot Odd. That should be good for more t

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

On 2020-05-09 at 23:36, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Rick, > > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? > > There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and > run parted you *may* be able to shrink your LVM

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

Another thought that is maybe a little outside the box: If your BIOS supports booting from USB or media slot then you could maybe make a new boot partition on one of those devices and switch to booting from that from now on. Ties up a USB or media slot forever of course, but possibly an acceptable

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

Hi Rick, On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and run parted you *may* be able to shrink your LVM and grow your /boot but it's a procedure fraught with da

Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing Kali Linux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed Oracle VirtualBox on my Windows 10 and downloaded Kali Linux 64bit ISO file, Then I created a new virtual machine (Debian 64bit)  and started installing Kali Lin

Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

I recently did a "apt update ; apt upgrade" and it died for lack of space in /boot when trying to install the latest kernel. I purged a couple of old kernel packages (still present in the 'stable' repo, so they weren't obsolete) to make enough space and tried again. Worked this time, but I wou

Re: advisable to use installer script?

On Sat, 9 May 2020 08:00:54 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 08 mai 20, 11:31:13, Celejar wrote: > > > > Indeed. It's just not clear to me that a typical package in Debian will > > have fewer bugs than the same software downloaded straight from > > upstream. > > The main "selling" point for

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:53 PM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt wrote: > > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the > desktop > > background. > > > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt wrote: > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop > background. > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, > such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as w

saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop background. Applications > Settings > Desktop In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as well as a picture that goes in the center

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Hello list, I did some further research. In particular I used the live-ISO-image of Buster (amd64) on DVD and bootet the system. And I found the following: Mouse still is irrational. It works fine, when no application has startet after logging. When then an application is started (in this case

Re: Should I enable "testing"

On 5/9/20 4:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : No, would be impossible and catastrophic. Either re-install, or try testing now, could be good for you. Reverting a such big upgrade is impossi

Re: Should I enable "testing"

J.Arun Mani wrote: > The question is, shall I revert back to "stable"? At this point, the only sure way to downgrade to stable is via a reinstall, because downgrading a package is not supported (in general). Why is this? While many programs don't store anything on disk that is version dependen

Re: Should I enable "testing"

On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : [Good advice snipped] > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main > > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian > > te

Re: Should I enable "testing"

Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debi

Re: ...

On 08.05.2020 23:14, Thomas McAtee Jr wrote: > For some reason unable to file a bug report. Tried under kernel and the > Linux Image as well. > > Here is my issue. I'm using Debian Testing Mate and a couple days ago I > did my update/upgrades. I received the new Linux Image 5.6.0.1. After I > did t

Re: Should I enable "testing"

On Sb, 09 mai 20, 07:44:43, J.Arun Mani wrote: > ``` > Then I got some 1 GB of updates and I installed those. So far so good, > but now I'm having a rest-less heart that I did something wrong. I > feel like I should have stayed in "stable". This now troubles me. > The question is, shall I revert

Should I enable "testing"

Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb http://deb.debian.org