Automatic installation of Debian 11 on ARM64

2023-10-15 Thread Frank Wilson
Hi, Has anyone successfully used the "automatic installation" option for the Debian 11 installer? I was expecting this option to give me screen where I can enter the URL to my preseed file (which it does on x86), but all I get on arm64 is a black screen and a blinking cursor. There are no apparent

Re: Does debian installer use volume names for LVM? (was: Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness)

2023-10-15 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:32 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > I am curious if debian installer uses volume names in /etc/fstab when > LVM is involved (either guided or manual partitioning). I'm pretty sure it does, I checked a few of my machines that I'm reasonably sure I haven't modified too much, and

Re: Unit prefixes [was: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm]

2023-10-15 Thread gene heskett
On 10/15/23 04:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 03:34:52AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] I can beat that Tomas. At one point in the early 90's we had a PDP-11 to run a 7 meter C band dish, The VT 220 died and DEC wanted nearly 2G for a VT-550 This one keeps tripping me

Re: Does debian installer use volume names for LVM?

2023-10-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/10/2023 à 10:32, Max Nikulin a écrit : I am curious if debian installer uses volume names in /etc/fstab when LVM is involved (either guided or manual partitioning). In guided partitionning, it uses the /dev/mapper name : here is what the installer put in the fstab of my laptop (/boot a

Unit prefixes [was: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm]

2023-10-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 03:34:52AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > I can beat that Tomas. At one point in the early 90's we had a PDP-11 to run > a 7 meter C band dish, The VT 220 died and DEC wanted nearly 2G for a VT-550 This one keeps tripping me up: the "G" in your "2G" means "grand", yes

Does debian installer use volume names for LVM? (was: Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness)

2023-10-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/10/2023 09:55, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:49 PM Andy Smith wrote: - they were using LVM - they'd taken a snapshot of their root fs - they were finding and mounting their root fs by fs UUID - snapshot obviously had same fs UUID - the kernel was finding the snapshot fi

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-15 Thread gene heskett
On 10/15/23 02:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: [...] P.S. I believed that most confusing (while still useful) feature of terminals is [Ctrl+s]. It takes some time to realize that it has been hit by mistake, so [Ctrl+q] is required to res