Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/20/24 07:52, Richard Owlett wrote: Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. Questions: 1. Do the flash drives require any prep?

Re: old kernel appears more stable than latest

2024-09-20 Thread hlyg
linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 has similar problem though its last msg before next boot are different: Sep 16 18:09:58 debian dhclient[1523]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.43.217 on wlx123 to 192.168.43.81 port 67 Sep 16 18:09:58 debian dhclient[1523]: DHCPACK of 192.168.43.217 from 192.168.43.81 Sep 16

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Joe
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:52:32 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and > Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference > I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. > > Questions: > 1. Do the fl

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-09-20 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote: Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall a écrit: Because the script will abort after the mount fails. root@dirac:~# cat test.sh #!/bin/bash set -e mount /boot/efi2 echo "do important stuff" root@dirac:~# ./test.sh mount: /boot/efi2: /dev/sda2 already mounted

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/9/24 22:52, Richard Owlett wrote: Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. Questions: 1. Do the flash drives require any prep?

Re: Availability of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" for OFFLINE use

2024-09-20 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 07:53:28 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" > > > available as a single file. > > > > > > I need it

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 09:52:32 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and > Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference > I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. > > Questions: > 1. Do the

Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. Questions: 1. Do the flash drives require any prep? [ Gparted gives warning messages on b

Re: Availability of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" for OFFLINE use

2024-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" available as a single file. I need it available when the network is not. It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appeari

Re: Unused blocks and fstrim

2024-09-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Sep 2024 10:04 +, from debianu...@woodall.me.uk (Tim Woodall): > I guess ZFS users might > have a different view of how useful lvm aware mdraid is :-) ZFS nowadays has the pool `autotrim` property (default off) and the `zpool trim` subcommand for manual or scripted usage. This is one of

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-09-20 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall a écrit: > Because the script will abort after the mount fails. > > root@dirac:~# cat test.sh > #!/bin/bash > > set -e > > mount /boot/efi2 > > echo "do important stuff" > > root@dirac:~# ./test.sh > mount: /boot/efi2: /dev/sda2 already mounted on /boot/efi2. >d

Re: logging with iptables

2024-09-20 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > in my iptables i havetcp LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix "REJECT: " > this does what i want but how to direct the logging > it gets written to multiple file in /var/log > syslog, messages, kern, debug > can i restrict this to a single file

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-09-20 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote: Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall a ?crit: Haven't looked at the script but assuming it's run set -e, then your suggestion will fail if it's already mounted. Why? Because the script will abort after the mount fails. root@dirac:~# cat test.sh #!/bin/ba

Re: Unused blocks and fstrim

2024-09-20 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Steve Keller wrote: I'd like to understand some technical details about how fstrim, file systems, and block devices work. Do ext4 and btrfs keep a list of blocks that have already been reported as unused or do they have to report all unused blocks to the block device layer

Unused blocks and fstrim

2024-09-20 Thread Steve Keller
I'd like to understand some technical details about how fstrim, file systems, and block devices work. Do ext4 and btrfs keep a list of blocks that have already been reported as unused or do they have to report all unused blocks to the block device layer everytime the fstrim command is issued? Doe

Re: LVM in LVM

2024-09-20 Thread Steve Keller
Tim Woodall writes: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Steve Keller wrote: > > > I don't see how this can be done in the current Debian 12. > Not sure because I've previously battled the opposite problem but I'd > start here in lvm.conf > > # Configuration option devices/scan_lvs. > # Scan

Re: Brightness Control Hotkeys not working on Debian 12, Lenovo IdeaPad3

2024-09-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
First thing is to check if any events are produced by the keys in question. Try the 'xev' program from package 'x11-utils'. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-09-20 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall a écrit: > Haven't looked at the script but assuming it's run set -e, then your > suggestion will fail if it's already mounted. Why? -- Florent

Re: version control and project management

2024-09-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-09-19, Wim Bertels wrote: > it is another version control system, with bug, wiki, .. integrated?: > https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki > https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/whyusefossil.wiki > > it is not clear to me why i should fossil instead of git? fossi