Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/04/2025 10:36, hlyg wrote: in bios Setup, i can choose "Legacy" for mbr disks or "UEFI" for gpt disks if i press F12 during boot, options are shown, i can boot both mbr and gpt disks It seems you have solved your issue (using BIOS menu), so feel free to ignore my question. It is pure c

Re: Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

2025-04-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/04/2025 02:35, David Christensen wrote: On 4/5/25 20:26, Max Nikulin wrote: > UEFI almost certainly can boot from mbr (DOS) partition, otherwise it > will be impossible to boot from USB pen drive. ... AIUI the USB pen drive must be partitioned specially, each partition must be formatted s

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250404)

2025-04-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 10:54:48 -0700 Will Mengarini wrote: > >> * If you are replying to a post, please … cut out extra text that > >> is not relevant to your point. > >> While you are commenting on Mr. Cater's FAQ, it would be nice to pay attention to it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more

Re: Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

2025-04-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen quoted Max Nikulin: > > UEFI almost certainly can boot from mbr (DOS) partition, otherwise it > > will be impossible to boot from USB pen drive. ... Yes it can boot from a partition marked in a MBR/DOS partition table which if formatted as FAT filesystem. But a USB stick cou

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-06 Thread hlyg
to Max Nikulin: perhaps my optiplex is quite old, it hasn't uefi compatibility mode though i have installed latest version in bios Setup, i can choose "Legacy" for mbr disks or "UEFI" for gpt disks if i press F12 during boot, options are shown, i can boot both mbr and gpt disks

Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

2025-04-06 Thread David Christensen
On 4/5/25 20:26, Max Nikulin wrote: > ... > UEFI almost certainly can boot from mbr (DOS) partition, otherwise it > will be impossible to boot from USB pen drive. ... AIUI the USB pen drive must be partitioned specially, each partition must be formatted specially (e.g. raw machine code, binary

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250404)

2025-04-06 Thread Will Mengarini
* Jeffrey Walton [25-04/05=Sat 00:52 -0400]: > Still missing a topic or discussion of "SOLVED" in the subject. Or a diff. > On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >> Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, >> and to facilitate discussion on relev

Re: "solved" in message subject

2025-04-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun Apr 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM BST, Greg wrote: On 2025-04-06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri Apr 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM BST, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: This is the real problem: threads here go on for months and years. Why is this a problem? Because in the modern age we need things that start i

Re: libfuse3-3 missing in trixie

2025-04-06 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 6. April 2025, 17:45:30 CEST schrieb Charles Curley: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:15:25 +0200 > > Hans wrote: > > But the build failed, as some packages need "libfuse3-3". > > It appears bookworm has both libfuse2 and libfuse3-3. Trixie has > libfuse3-4. And that could change before trix

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-06 Thread debian-user
Nicolas George wrote: > Serkan Kurt (HE12025-04-06): > > Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I > > connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the > > other USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to > > about 0.5 meters. Normally 10

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > xev works as not-root, so X clients in general work. So how do I get > around this? Installing not-Wayland is an option, but I probably should > replace it with some WIMP interface so if I need it, it's there. Thanks. So, as xev works, X forwarding works and it's not your

Re: libfuse3-3 missing in trixie

2025-04-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:15:25 +0200 Hans wrote: > > But the build failed, as some packages need "libfuse3-3". It appears bookworm has both libfuse2 and libfuse3-3. Trixie has libfuse3-4. And that could change before trixie is released. > A quick search showed: libfuse3-3 is in bookworm and in

libfuse3-3 missing in trixie

2025-04-06 Thread Hans
Hi folks, tried to build debian-live/trrixie. But the build failed, as some packages need "libfuse3-3". A quick search showed: libfuse3-3 is in bookworm and in sid, but not in trixie. Maybe you want to take a look at that? Thought it should be mentioned before trixie will be official relea

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-06 Thread Nicolas George
Serkan Kurt (HE12025-04-06): > Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I > connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the other > USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to about 0.5 > meters. Normally 10 meters. The laptop has 2 USBA (s

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-06 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 05:42:19PM +0300, Serkan Kurt wrote: > Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I > connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the other > USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to about 0.5 > meters. Normally 10

When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-06 Thread Serkan Kurt
Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the other USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to about 0.5 meters. Normally 10 meters. The laptop has 2 USBA (ss) ports. The two ports are side by s

Re: Backup.

2025-04-06 Thread peter
From: "Thomas Schmitt" Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:49:10 +0200 > You could give the backups volume ids which tell the date. > > -volid BOB_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" > ... Just ran this shell function with no difficulty evident. FilesToHDD () { \ source=/home/root/Backup; e

Re: "solved" in message subject

2025-04-06 Thread Greg
On 2025-04-06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri Apr 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM BST, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> This is the real problem: threads here go on for months and years. > > Why is this a problem? Because in the modern age we need things that start instantly and end rapidly.

Re: "solved" in message subject

2025-04-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri Apr 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM BST, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: This is the real problem: threads here go on for months and years. Why is this a problem? -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net

Re: "solved" in message subject

2025-04-06 Thread 황병희
Hellow Jeff, Jeffrey Walton writes: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM Max Nikulin wrote: >> [...] >> Let's avoid discussions if gmail should be used. De-facto it is widely >> used, it has features and limitations. My point is that gmail users >> should be aware that some suggestions perfectly v