Re: Boot script

2020-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jan Wilmans wrote > - I have put debian-live-10.3.0-amd64-kde.iso on a USB stick directly > using rufus-3.9.exe  With its "dd" mode, i assume. > the live images contains a filesystem.squashfs Yeah. Tricky. > But I thought there must surely be a simpler way? Install Debian to the USB sti

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 22:03:20, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates, > buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt > upgrade very frequently. > > As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday. > Now, apt lis

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 12:30:29, David Christensen wrote: > > As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can get > the job done. That said, I have about a half dozen machines and have been > feeling the need for installation and deployment automation. I have heard of > Puppet m

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 04:03:29, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 10 mai 20, 02:02:45, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > So... Here's another question: > > > > > > Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so > > > small? Disk (even S

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

2020-05-10 Thread elvis
Old ways die hard, disk space is cheap! these days On 10/5/20 1:53 pm, The Wanderer wrote: 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 in

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

2020-05-10 Thread elvis
On 11/5/20 8:53 am, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 12:30 PM, David Christensen wrote: As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can get the job done. GRML [1] says: "Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection

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

2020-05-10 Thread Tom Dial
On 5/10/20 03:07, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 1:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: >> On 2020-05-09 22:05, Will Mengarini wrote: >>> * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: What's the best way to increase the size of /boot? >>> By creating a reliable backup and reformatting

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

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 12:30 PM, David Christensen wrote: > As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can > get the job done. GRML [1] says: "Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially fo

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 10 May, 2020 at 22:03:20 +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates, > buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt > upgrade very frequently. > > As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday. >

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I am not sure of it but perhaps this is linked to the absence of proposed-updates in your sources.list: https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates

Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates, buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt upgrade very frequently. As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday. Now, apt list --upgradable shows me 90+ packages to be upgraded. I thought th

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

2020-05-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-10 02:07, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 1:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-05-09 22:05, Will Mengarini wrote: * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: What's the best way to increase the size of /boot? By creating a reliable backup and reformatting the disk

Re: debsecan does not report a vulnerability?

2020-05-10 Thread Ihor Antonov
On Sunday, 10 May 2020 08:18:29 PDT Victor Sudakov wrote: > Have I asked in the wrong list? Which list would be more appropriate? Hi Victor, I think this is the right list. But it seems that the message got lost somehow in the high volume. I have not used debescan personally, so I am replying s

Re: stretch -> buster upgrade fails

2020-05-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if > /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/appstreamcli; then > appstreamcli refresh-cache > /dev/null; fi' > E: Sub-process returned an error code > I don't know where to find a verbose log

stretch -> buster upgrade fails

2020-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
hi, I've just tried to upgrade a workstation on my network from stretch to buster. I changed all references to stretch in sources.list to buster, and ran apt-get upgrade,with the following results: root@debian-jane:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updat

Re: Boot script

2020-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jan Wilmans wrote: > I've created a bootable USB stick that boot debian 10 By which procedure, exactly ? There are several which produce quite different outcome. > how can I insert it into the USB sticks read only filesystem? If you have an ISO 9660 filesystem on the base device of the sti

Re: gnome-disk-utility User Session Defaults issue

2020-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 May 2020 at 22:34:30 (-0400), Default User wrote: > On 2020-05-08, David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk) wrote: > > > But I'm surprised: which partitioner did you use, and which installer? > > David, I Originally installed Debian as Stable using the Debian 9 > netinst installer, a day

Re: debsecan does not report a vulnerability?

2020-05-10 Thread Victor Sudakov
Have I asked in the wrong list? Which list would be more appropriate? Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > There is something about debsecan I don't understand, can you please clarify > for me? > > CVE-2020-1967 was fixed in version 1.1.1d-0+deb10u3, I have > 1.1.1d-0+deb10u2 installed,

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

2020-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 May 2020 at 16:30:56 (+0200), Sven Hartge wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > If the answer is many, you could shrink some of them by rebuilding > > their initrd.img files with MODULES=dep, which could reduce each > > kernel's size from ~40M to <10M. > > While this will reduce this init

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

2020-05-10 Thread Sven Hartge
David Wright wrote: > If the answer is many, you could shrink some of them by rebuilding > their initrd.img files with MODULES=dep, which could reduce each > kernel's size from ~40M to <10M. While this will reduce this initrd size, you should also mention the consequences of doing this: It onl

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

2020-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 May 2020 at 20:05:48 (-0700), Rick Thomas wrote: > 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

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

2020-05-10 Thread Jörg Kampmann
> 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 started after logging. > When then an application is started (in

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

2020-05-10 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, May 10, 2020 05:07:24 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > > > * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > > >> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot? > Yeah, that's probably what I'll do. Fortunately, it's an amd64 machine, so > I'll be able to use GRML to do the work. Enjoy! Another

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

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 10 mai 20, 02:02:45, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So... Here's another question: > > > > Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so > > small? Disk (even SSD) is cheap enough these days that the default > > size c

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 02:02:45, Rick Thomas wrote: > So... Here's another question: > > Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so > small? Disk (even SSD) is cheap enough these days that the default > size could be as much as a GB without great pain. > > Has this been thoug

Boot script

2020-05-10 Thread Jan Wilmans
I've created a bootable USB stick that boot debian 10 (buster), and i would like to customize my rc.local to do and apt-get update and install icecc then start iceccd finally run top. Its a simple script, but how can I insert it into the USB sticks read only filesystem? On Sun, May 10, 2020, 11

Re: Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

2020-05-10 Thread Jan Wilmans
If you look carefully of the last page, the radio button for writing the boot record to disk is by default is to ,NOT write the boot record. You have to change it to 'yes' before you continue! If you dont, then ofcourse it reboots and since nothing changed in the boot sequence it boots the iso aga

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

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 1:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-05-09 22:05, Will Mengarini wrote: > > * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > >> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot? > > By creating a reliable backup and reformatting the disk to > > the new format. I've n

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

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
So... Here's another question: Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so small? Disk (even SSD) is cheap enough these days that the default size could be as much as a GB without great pain. Has this been thought about by the PTBs? Was there a discussion of possibly ra

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

2020-05-10 Thread Will Mengarini
* Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > [...] died for lack of space in /boot [...] Long ago I stopped bothering with a separate /boot, and behold, I yet live. ISTR the Debian installer doesn't default to creating one either. If you really want a bastion filesystem for booting, I suggest it

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

2020-05-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-09 22:05, Will Mengarini wrote: * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: What's the best way to increase the size of /boot? By creating a reliable backup and reformatting the disk to the new format. I've never found it to be cost-effective to try anything else. +1 I don't

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

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
> Consider the time you've spent posing this question, waiting for the > answers, and reading them. Dump and reload might've finished already. True, but I wouldn't have learned half so much and wouldn't have had a third so much had so much fun learning it! Stay safe!

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

2020-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 9:10 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > 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

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 mai 20, 22:05:40, Will Mengarini wrote: > * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > > [...] died for lack of space in /boot [...] > > Long ago I stopped bothering with a separate /boot, and behold, I yet > live. ISTR the Debian installer doesn't default to creating one > either. Agre