On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 06:13:25PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> Should I purchase a used computer with AMD RX550 video?
I can't suggest what you should or shouldn't do but the GPU will
probably be supported reasonably in Debian.
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:11:50AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote:
> > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I
> > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I
> > can use in any desktop/laptop)
On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 03:16:53PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 06:56:11PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> > Concerning the points raised:
>
> I still did not see any statement of which concrete problems or issues
> you did actually want to tackle. For example it is a w
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:30:51PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.
> Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current
> (2023) low-end Dell laptop.
> Intel Core i3 processor.
> 8Gb ram.
> UEFI booting.
> Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> This being done, I first thought that I could possibly succeed in just
> upgrading my Buster system to its last update, which I did, successfully…
> unfortunately this did not change the faulty behaviour of vlc.
>
> No
On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 12:37:04PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Thanks Andrew for continuing to send the Monthly FAQ.
>
> I'd like to request you make it clearer if/how people can contribute to the
> evolution of the FAQ text. There's nothing in it as to how to do that.
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 12:53:24PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
> >> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
> >> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
> >> I don't really want di
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:48:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> >
> > On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > >
> > > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a
> > > dedicated structure to explicitly ma
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 11:09:06PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/16/25 03:14, Erwan David wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 03:16:29AM CEST, Lee said:
> > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > > On Apr 14, 2025, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
>
> Which brings up the fact that if
al your requirements are.
As ever, we don't have a crystal ball - the more information you can
give to help those of us reading the list, the better.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Timpson 🍉
>
>
> Sent with Proton Mail secure ema
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> I found many pages about how to get the BCM43228 wireless card to work
> in Bookworm, but the recommended packages
>
> b43-fwcutter
> broadcom-wl
> broadcom-sta
> combo-wifi-driver-pack
> firmware-b43-installer
>
> are not found.
>
>
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:38:38PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> I'm using Debian 12.
>
> I tried to add a PPA repository but it failed:
>
PPAs are primarily for Ubuntu and only used in Ubuntu.
There's every likelihood that you can't use this one with Debian.
You might try asking Joern Shoenyan
ht
B
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:37:36PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I
> write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. I would like to do this
> without using HTML. I use alpine to send and receive email : I tried addin
On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 05:32:29PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/13/25 14:07, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 12:50:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > Hi Gene,
> >
> > I'm probably going to regret this - let&
On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 12:50:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
Hi Gene,
I'm probably going to regret this - let's see if I can help you
fault-find :)
Questions:
1. Which version of Debian is this?
Give us the output of /etc/os-release and of uname -a on this machine,
please.
2. Do you actually
ver.
GPT and UEFI is the way forward on machines that support them.
> it seems both installer and i are quite dumb
>
> in the end i use mbr, as one of my PCs doesn't support gpt
>
> btw what is recommended size of efi partition?
>
> default size is 512M
>
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
>
>
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:22:47AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 02/04/2025 05:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I see the changing of title or subject to add things like "SOLVED" is
> > not included in the FAQ.
>
> I am neutral to this recommendations. Just some considerations...
>
> I rarely use G
ributions other than Debian will be
> > only our best guess - other distributions may do things very differently.
> >
[SOLVED] Use Debian :)
You have, however, made me realise that the lines in the FAQ may be too
long once quoted.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:51:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 3/24/25 15:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > > This 30 second system freeze/lag is driving me nuts, not that its a long
> > >
herwise uptodate a/o an hour ago? UsrMerge has
> apparently been done.
>
I'm having difficulty finding anything useful that relates to dumat and
analysis - can you give me some good search term to find this software?
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> T
cy. Secure Boot should pose no problem.
>
> Un saludo
>
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> Julio
>
>
>
>
>
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o merge all the BDs and put them on an external pendrive/hdd. Thanks guys
> for your support/advice.
Please don't post in HTML to this list if you can avoid it. Thanks.
Similarly, the main language here is English but I can at least wish you well.
Ciao a tutti voi, spero che poss
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:03:48AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus
> accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems
> to have become stuck at 12.7.
>
> I have a second machine on which I install
dering this proposal. I look forward to your feedback
> and discussion on this matter.
>
Thank you for your interest - sorry to pour cold water on your idea but
please keep on enjoying Linux and campaigning for its wider use.
> Best regards,
> Gurlagan Singh.
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@einval.com)
feeling foolish - I forgot to plug in an Ethernet cable
Andy
would make it a lot easier to find answers on some of the longer
threads concerning problems. As ever, opinions may vary and i'd like
to know what others feel.
> Jeff
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM And
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nt to contact the debian-cloud mailing list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/ and also see
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists
Hope this helps,
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> Could you publish your latest Debian12 AMI in AWS Malaysia region
> ap
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 05:29:06PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Eben King composed on 2025-02-23 13:42 (UTC-0500):
> ...
> # inxi -SC
> System:
> Host: ab250 Kernel: 6.12.11-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
> Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.4~[DEVELOPMENT] Distro: Debian GNU/Linux
> trixie/sid
>
It's obvious *now* - congratulations on solving the problem and thanks
for writing back to tell us exactly what was wrong.
You're not stupid: https://xkcd.com/1053/ refers.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
>
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:20:18PM +, Russell Stinnett wrote:
> I didn't realize that the posts would be so delayed, or that they
> were going through at all. I hoped that they would just outright fail
> until one finally went through and that would be it.
>
Hi Russell,
Maybe that's lesson #
All the very best as ever,
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(amaca...@debian.org)
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:20:01PM +0100, Moderation Robot wrote:
> linux.debian.user is a moderated newsgroup in gateway
> with a mailing list.
>
> Your article has been examined by the automatic moderation progr
On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 01:38:17PM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing
> sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for
> everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be r
[Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org]
On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem
> installing things as root?
> I know that there are is
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:43:28AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:12:42 -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater
> > > wrote:
> >
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:23:58AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:12:42 -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater
> > wrote:
> > > apt list '~o'
> >
> > Where is '~o' document
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:33:50PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/3/25 21:10, Mike Castle wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM Loren M. Lang wrote:
> > > Basically, I want to identify any software that I couldn't reinstall on
> > > a fresh install of Debian from the official Debian archive
On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:31:02PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > >
m-rescue.org/ ?
I'd suggest maybe using a Debian netinst image in rescue mode and
chroot-ing into the target partition, perhaps or using a Debian live
image to access the filesystem.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote:
> > >
> > > This failure occurs during the "Select and install softw
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elect those and
auto-updates for security is still presented.
This is from performing installs with no network as we do when testing
point releaases / main releases of Debian in the install media team.
Hope this helps - with every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
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> Obser
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:14:00PM +, Michael wrote:
> Thanks very much for your help and suggestions.
>
> I am running Debian 12 on a desktop.
>
> My aim is to set up and use a TOTP authenticator app called Ente Auth.
>
As far as I can see, this is a third party package from
https://github
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 02:22:44PM +, Michael wrote:
> I installed a debian file (db1'say) using dpkg -i and an executable file
> (ex1 say) was created.
>
Hi Michael,
Can we have some specifics? Version of Debian, name of executables,
whether one came from outside main Debian repository, ple
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 08:11:48PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
> I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the
> updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point that
> I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds before it
> t
this
header field when converting Message objects used by Microsoft products to MIME
messages.
I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a Microsoft-ism
here.
(Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) )
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..
>
the issue with the website owner / with their
upstream ISP or hosting provider. Beyond that, the only other thing you
might do is to ask Google and similar search engine providers to remove
this site from their caches.
I have not visited this wiki: it's best practice not to click on random
links.
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
ersion is still likely to be 6.12 for the lifetime of Trixie (unless there
are security changes which force a move of kernel version.)
Hope this helps,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> It seems to obvious to me, that I should not install from backports the
> package "linux-image-a
ith a subject something like CONFIRMxxx
and text asking you to confirm that you issued a subscription
request.
A simple reply to that mail message should confirm subscription
to the list
Hope this helps,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
fetime
of Debian Trixie / Debian 13 so you should be fine. Since 6.12 is the LTS
version, it's unlikely that we'll move forward from it (though I'm not
the Release Team).
Hope this helps,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
s possibly not an adequate description
for people with ~30 years worth of experience with Debian in the Debian images
team. The political references are also probably off-topic and accordingly
unwelcome - please refer to the monthly Debian-user FAQ.
> /best regards Johan S
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
into python.
>
> Changed the mnt-excl perl script (in the support dir) into a python script.
>
Pocket,
No idea where this list came from so:
You might want to check for yourself. The first of these at least was
corrected in the package for rsync available currently in Debian stable.
(updated on 17th January 2025).
The security fixes will also be ported to Debian oldstable by Freexian.
Hope this helps,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
river requirements from anything you've
had previously. If you install Windows first, use Windows tools to reduce the
size of the partition and then install Debian, it should work.
Hope this helps - my opinion only, there may be other ways to do this.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
>
Whatever works to clarify things, I guess, even after the event for me
at least.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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n long enough that the above should apply:
somehow, someone somewhere is always in the ten thousand people who
are hearing these things for the first time.
https://xkcd.com/1053
It is also always possible that they know enough that a recent newly
learned fact or command has pushed this out
onto
the Internet / a Debian list, then there's little possibility of
removing it completely.
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
o help everyone get the best from the list.
With thanks for your understanding and cooperation in this,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
[For the Debian Community Team]
tools, like apt, etc. if that's preferable...
>
I tend to use virt-manager as a nice GUI front end to these: it should pull
in some python and GUI libraries, virsh, libvirt and kvm.
Hope this helps,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
>
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 05:01:19PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> > sudo apt install sgdisk
apt-get install gdisk
> unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. Suitable
> substitute? Display is wayland so X is out. root not allowed.
> >
> >
>
Gdisk is the fdisk eqivalent that
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 06:54:55PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> > > > > > Good question Marc. I'm searching for someone who knows how to
> > > > > > combine 4
> > > > > > ea 4T SSD's into one volume for use with amanda, the lvm docs are
> > > > > > somewhat confusing, lacking the context that a
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 04:53:53PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 12/31/24 12:56, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 11:32:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > Marc
> > > > Good question Marc. I'm searching for someone who knows
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 11:32:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > Marc
> > Good question Marc. I'm searching for someone who knows how to combine 4
> > ea 4T SSD's into one volume for use with amanda, the lvm docs are
> > somewhat confusing, lacking the context that actually teaches.
> >
Hi
irremediably broken - thousands of installs
by other people suggest that the problem may be yours and yours alone.
> >
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of lib
is not a subscriber to debian-user and so has not
> seen any of the replies here to their mail?
>
> Below is a direct copy of perhaps the most helpful one, but the bottom
> line is: you need to use an Ubuntu support forum for Ubuntu help, not a
> Debian one.
>
> Thanks,
> A
On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 08:38:24PM +0100, koffie wrote:
> Ubuntu / Oracular
> Hello,
>
Hi koffie,
This is a Debian list: Ubuntu support is off-topic here but
you could try an Ubuntu list or forum.
> It is not possible to download an iso file.
> It takes hours to get it but it doesn't boot
> Th
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 08:14:11PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday 21 December 2024 02:20:20 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > So I have a DVD with 12.something on it, not too old.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> So I have a DVD with 12.something on it, not too old. I plan to install
> that, and then see what's on this workstation that I also might want to
> install, and then go from there. I'm currently using virtualbox on this
s by design: if you *only* have media and no network
connection, you may still want to install packages and /etc/apt/sources.list
is structured accordingly.
Hope this helps - with every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 12:08:36PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 12/15/24 09:48, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 15/12/2024 20:27, gene heskett wrote:
> > > On 12/14/24 23:00, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > > /var/log/installer/hardware-summary
> > >
> > usb-list:
> > usb-list: Bus 02 Device 01: xHC
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 09:41:24AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 12/14/24 02:51, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 12/13/24 13:08, gene heskett wrote:
> > > On 12/13/24 13:48, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > > People have tried to help you - and sometimes got
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 11:44:17AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> > Do you monitor suricata state&logs at these moments?
> What is suricata, first I've heard of it
> >
>
Suricata - network analysis tool and threat detection tool, maybe?
[First result on a web search]
All the very best, as ever
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:36:28AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 12/13/24 09:50, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 13/12/2024 13:37, gene heskett wrote:
> > >
> > > IMNSHO the installer is busted. But mentioning that was a no-no.
> >
> > Have you tried to explain your issue to installer developers i
Hi,
On 12/12/24 10:16 am, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top of
>> which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the web
>> applications), is the malignant use of javascr
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:17:37AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> > installation is broken. Given the complexity of your haystack, I expect
> > finding and fixing the needle(s) would be time prohibitive.
> It is indeed, David. The package managers apt and synaptic cannot find
> anything wrong, an
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or
> two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
> running. Memory is ha
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 December 2024 23:40:36 CET George at Clug wrote:
> > Are you going to use Virtual Box on a number of different physical
> > computers?
>
> > Sorry, I was not clear, "What physical video card/s are in the host (the
> >
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 09:59:17AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
Hi Gene,
We need more details than this.
1. Which version of Debian?
2. Any log files?
3. What's running when the machine crashes?
4. What's changed recently
All best, as ever,
Andy Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> Cheers, Gene He
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 03:39:08PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 December 2024 07:47:24 CET George at Clug wrote:
>
> > What version of VirtualBox are you using?
>
> 7.1
>
> > I found a comment on the internet that suggests VirtualBox 7.1 under
> > debian12 does not support 3D
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 05:20:02PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM Timothy M Butterworth <
> timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>
> >
> > According to squid upstream version 5.7 is no longer supported. Version
> > 6.7 has a workaround fix for the prob
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 03:32:10PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 22:03:52 +
> "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
>
> > 2. Use gparted to move Windows (maybe apart from the EFI partition)
> > to the end of the drive - move the blank space to the f
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 03:15:36PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 20:01:29 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> > Use the Microsoft tools to create a Windows .iso file
> >
> > Install Windows from a .iso file. Use Windows drive tools to shrink Win
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:24:05PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> as promised I send you my experiences with cloning to NVME.
>
> So, today I got my new notebook. As I never used UEFI, I disabled UEFI in
> BIOS
> (my first mistake!), then cloned everything to the new drive.
>
> Firts reboo
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 11:34:41AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 December 2024 09:29:17 -03 Daniel Harris wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I have been using the stable branch but recently it has not been so
> > stable. I have experienced some unexpected behavior Not sure if
On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 02:55:07AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
>
>
> > It might be easier to produce a clean new install and then just rsync
> > data from the SSD drive to the appropriate directories on the NVME.
>
> No it is better that everything comes over all at one time
>
As someone
On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 05:49:18PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook.
> The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME.
>
> I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME.
>
It might be easier to produce a clean new install
On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 12:05:24PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 18:55:48 +0100
> ermanno morelli wrote:
>
> > Buongiorno.c'è un problema con ISO debian-testing-amd64-netinst.
> > Nonfinisce l'installazione poiche manca IL KERNEL. come è possibile
> > questa dimenticanza, vi
Good afternoon all,
As you may have noticed, I've updated the monthly FAQ today. I've added a
small amount around political/religious/other debate and also about not
responding to trolls.
The political/religious/other debate addition is because I've noticed a
couple of those over the last six mon
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 04:43:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/30/24 9:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > "apt upgrade" does not take a package name as an argument. It tries
> > to upgrade *all* of the packages you have.
> >
> > To upgrade a single package, use "install" instead.
> >
On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 09:42:34AM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> Hello Muhammad!
>
> and for more real-time interaction I like to hang out on the #linux channel
> on liberachat IRC servers,
> or, if it's debian specific, on the #debian channel (also on liberachat).
> Some specific software com
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:08:29PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The answer seems to be to install with LVM and encryption. That ensures
> > that the swap area is encrypted and *cannot* be messed with while the
> > device is hibernated (which is the rationale for Secure Boot not allowing
> > hib
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 07:57:14PM +, Richmond wrote:
> It's because secure boot prevents it.
>
> :(
>
Hi Richmond,
A quick search with a search engine: boot is restricted, not impossible.
The answer seems to be to install with LVM and encryption. That ensures
that the swap area is encrypte
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 07:55:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Running Debian 12.7 with MATE
> When launching Synaptic I get a message saying
> [ You have 1 broken package on your system!"
> Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. ]
> Synaptic's Help isn't helpful :{
> It also reports
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 05:56:25PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> I have a 20-year-old box which was nonetheless enough to run Debian
> Bookworm (12.5) - but the video card, equipped with an Nvidia GeForce
> 610 GPU, was too old. I was getting messages on boot saying that it
> was only supported by
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:38:56PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I see an attractive deal on a laptop that is shipped with Windows 11 in
> S-mode
> (link below).
>
> I assume (I know), but am not sure that I will be able to load Linux on that
> laptop -- can anyone tell me for sure?
>
> P
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 02:45:46AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/22/24 5:33 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> You misinterpreted my post.
>
> I meant to convey that I have been using Debian since release 6.
> I liked my experience with Debian 9.
>
> I now hav
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 04:26:05AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/22/24 12:57 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:
>
> I recently jumped from Debian 9(w/MATE) - 12(w/MATE) in one step.
> My Debian 9 settings can be traced back to Debian 6(w/Gnome).
> I don't recall what settings I ended up with.
> But I
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