Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-03 Thread john doe
On 3/3/2021 11:53 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:47:16 + Brian wrote: Major improvement, thank you! I did have to answer some questions on the way through, but did get a good connection. Good. As I tried to indicate, the priority at which d-i is run affects which questio

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf Not sure how this is relevant. This is like talking about the security of locks when the other guy is openly telling you he has a copy of the key. Stefan

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 03, 2021 06:15:03 PM Brian wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 03, 2021 03:18:25 PM Brian wrote: > > A 64-bit netinstall is prominent on the Debian main page. The > > problem with that image is that it is unlikely to suit many users > > with wireless-only connectivity. No obvious es

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread David Christensen
On 3/3/21 6:43 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Or, get Internet service that includes a modem/ gateway with an Ethernet port. This is probably the best answer in the long run. Unless that modem/gateway is under the control of the ISP, in which case you're fundamentally inviting your ISP onto your loc

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Or, get Internet service that includes a modem/ gateway with an Ethernet >>> port. This is probably the best answer in the long run. >> Unless that modem/gateway is under the control of the ISP, in which case >> you're fundamentally inviting your ISP onto your local network, IOW into >> your p

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread David Christensen
On 3/3/21 1:53 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Or, get Internet service that includes a modem/ gateway with an Ethernet port. This is probably the best answer in the long run. Unless that modem/gateway is under the control of the ISP, in which case you're fundamentally inviting your ISP onto your lo

Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:47:16 + Brian wrote: > > Major improvement, thank you! I did have to answer some questions on > > the way through, but did get a good connection. > > Good. As I tried to indicate, the priority at which d-i is run affects > which questions are asked. Otherwise you get

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 16:41:18 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, March 03, 2021 03:18:25 PM Brian wrote: > > There are at least half a dozen www.debian.org pages that point to a > > non-Debian installation image. Andrei POPESCU has given one route: > > > > https://www.debian.org/

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Andrei POPESCU composed on 2021-03-03 17:50 (UTC+0200): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> To start with, RAID1 is marginally slower than ordinary filesystems on > >> partitions. > > > This is true for some workloads, for others it can be significantly > > faster. > > > htt

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Felix Miata
Andrei POPESCU composed on 2021-03-03 17:50 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> To start with, RAID1 is marginally slower than ordinary filesystems on >> partitions. > This is true for some workloads, for others it can be significantly > faster. > https://arstechnica.com/information-technolog

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Joe
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:38:20 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 3/3/21 7:36 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 03/03/2021 08:35 AM, David Christensen wrote: > >> On 3/3/21 1:24 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >>> 2. I'm pushing at my data cap {including unused from previous > >>> months}. >

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Or, get Internet service that includes a modem/ gateway with an Ethernet > port. This is probably the best answer in the long run. Unless that modem/gateway is under the control of the ISP, in which case you're fundamentally inviting your ISP onto your local network, IOW into your private home.

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 03, 2021 03:18:25 PM Brian wrote: > There are at least half a dozen www.debian.org pages that point to a > non-Debian installation image. Andrei POPESCU has given one route: > > https://www.debian.org/distrib/ > > What's the problem? I thought the problem was as described i

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread David Christensen
On 3/3/21 7:36 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/03/2021 08:35 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 3/3/21 1:24 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I'm pushing at my data cap {including unused from previous months}. Have you considered setting up a local package proxy server?  I used approx(8) in the pas

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread David Christensen
On 3/3/21 7:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've one fine machine running i386 flavor of Debian 9.13 . I've wish to install 64 bit flavor on a second machine. debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso was successfully downloaded & saved. It was copied to a USB flash drive and installation attempted. Only did

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 10:27:42 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 06:29:15 PM Brian wrote: > > On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 16:19:45 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 02:55:08 PM Brian wrote: > > > > On Mon 01 Mar 2021 at 08:13:13 -0500, rhkra...

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 21:01:09 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 23:29:15 (+), Brian wrote: [...] > > > > "+1" for what? Advertising each and every non-Debian installer that > > > > comes along and is uploaded to unofficial? > > I was under the impression that "The Debian I

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:07 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Pierre this is why I raised our true stochastic quantum natures You > might > > walk thru a wall tonight too. It just isn't very likely > > are you suggesting that by monitoring pulseaudi

Re: Bullseye - no sound

2021-03-03 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 03/03/2021 02:14, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 04:57:59 (+0300), IL Ka wrote: >>> $ pacmd list-sinks >>> 2 sink(s) available. >> >> pulseaudio is aware of both of your soundcards (although one is physically >> muted). >> Which software reports "No output or input devices found"? >

Re: Installing GRUB to make a hybrid UEFI/MBR bootable USB stick

2021-03-03 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:52:49PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > I have written a howto on installing GRUB on an USB stick to make it > bootable both on UEFI and legacy MBR systems. Thanks, that sounds very useful :) Cheers - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Pierre this is why I raised our true stochastic quantum natures You might walk thru a wall tonight too. It just isn't very likely are you suggesting that by monitoring pulseaudio, I reduce the wave packet, like opening the cat's door? best regard

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 9:08 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > OK, it's good that we can rule out some of the possible causes, like > > "permissions are wrong on /usr/bin" or "there's a cron job that > > deletes it every week". We're still left with a myster

Installing GRUB to make a hybrid UEFI/MBR bootable USB stick

2021-03-03 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. I have written a howto on installing GRUB on an USB stick to make it bootable both on UEFI and legacy MBR systems. It allows to install multiple ISO images of live distros as plain files in an unobtrusive directory while keeping the stick usable to carry around vacation photos, torrents of Ba

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 mar 21, 14:01:52, Felix Miata wrote: > > To start with, RAID1 is marginally slower than ordinary filesystems on > partitions. This is true for some workloads, for others it can be significantly faster. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-perf

Re: SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Marc Auslander
On 3/3/2021 6:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Based on this, I'm guessing that the original problem was that the installer forgot to include mdadm support in its grub options, even though it was configured with an mdadm boot device. And then I missed a couple steps after adding mdadm support, so

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 10:01:09 PM David Wright wrote: > I was under the impression that "The Debian Images Team is a small > team of people working on creating, testing and distributing Debian > images for [us]", whereas you seem to be describing something like > a wiki where any Tom, Dick or

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/03/2021 08:35 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 3/3/21 1:24 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I'm pushing at my data cap {including unused from previous months}. Have you considered setting up a local package proxy server?  I used approx(8) in the past, and believe there are other choices:

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 06:35:00 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 3/3/21 1:24 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > 2. I'm pushing at my data cap {including unused from previous months}. > > Have you considered setting up a local package proxy server? I used > approx(8) in the past, and believe there

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-03 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 06:29:15 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 16:19:45 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 02:55:08 PM Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 01 Mar 2021 at 08:13:13 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > No. Providing a reasonable explanatory text about

PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Richard Owlett
I've one fine machine running i386 flavor of Debian 9.13 . I've wish to install 64 bit flavor on a second machine. debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso was successfully downloaded & saved. It was copied to a USB flash drive and installation attempted. Only did minimal install as I could not connect to

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: OK, it's good that we can rule out some of the possible causes, like "permissions are wrong on /usr/bin" or "there's a cron job that deletes it every week". We're still left with a mystery, but it's slightly smaller now. actually, it's still a mystery

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread David Christensen
On 3/3/21 1:24 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I'm pushing at my data cap {including unused from previous months}. Have you considered setting up a local package proxy server? I used approx(8) in the past, and believe there are other choices: https://packages.debian.org/buster/approx Da

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com) wrote: > > ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio > >drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / >drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug

SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
So, after my last message, I ran across a general mdadm setup guide at https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_(new)_system and, in the "booting" section of that document, it said to add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="domdadm" to /etc/default/grub. Didn't have that, so I added it, did the checks

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Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/03/2021 03:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/02/2021 08:39 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 15:42:27 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/02/2021 02:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 14:09:18 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I've one fine machine running i386 flavor o

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/p

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/02/2021 08:39 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 15:42:27 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/02/2021 02:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 14:09:18 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I've one fine machine running i386 flavor of Debian 9.13 . I've wish to install 64 bit fla

Re: Installation problems

2021-03-03 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/02/2021 04:50 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 3/3/21 08:42, Richard Owlett wrote: Any one know exactly what I need to add that would normally just be silently installed. I just took it as part of "universal" in USB. I'd suggest using a live non-free ISO and then install any necessary dr

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
General update on my situation: Just before knocking off for the day, I tried telling the installer to finish up without installing a boot loader, then used the netinst USB stick as a rescue disk to boot my installed system. From there, I was able to use the regular grub-install program (instead