George Kirkham wrote:
[snip disk drive question]
> PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the
> any other good email clients that support email threading and are
> packaged in Debian?
I use mutt, command line MUA, excellent.
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Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras
> > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon
> > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it
Chris Green wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600
> > Charles Curley wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 +
> > > Chris Green wrote:
> > >
> > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB e
know them.
I do use .rsync-filter to filter out things that either don't need
backup or that change so frequently that they make backups pointless,
things like .bash_history and .xsession-errors for example.
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I said there are two similar but separately coded versions. The
hourly backup one is a bash script and two python scripts (prebak.py
and postbak.py). The daily backup one uses an rsync server on the
remote machine where the backups are stored but is otherwise pretty
similar to the hourly backup one.
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apshots, but rsync alone does not allow you
> to recover a file you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
> backup tool.
>
Ah, yes, that's the one I was trying to remember when I suggested
rsyncbackup. rsnapshot is the one I used to use before I wrote my
own.
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as that are advertised mostly as
'endoscopes' would make looking around down there more possible.
As I said before the only reason I used the word endoscope was that
it's the best way to actually get hits on the type of device I'm
after. Another search term that can work is 'inspection camera'.
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Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600
> Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 +
> > Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras
> > > so I can poke around
s of ordinary webcams which aren't what I want.
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ate
with a computer and there's UVC support in Debian (guvcview et al.)
Can anyone confirm that I have this right? Does anyone here actually
use one of these cameras with Debian? Actual recommendations of
specific suppliers/cameras would be very welcome, eBay, Amazon,
AliExpress, I'm not f
/master/hosts
The first few lines of the file contain links to further information.
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lots of disk space but
are far too large for smaller systems.
On systems I have with limited space I modify /etc/systemd/journald.conf
to reduce disk usage, I set the SystemMaxUse and MaxRetentionSec
parameters.
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r, i.e. in my router using a blacklist, the
advantage being that it blocks ads on for all systems on my home LAN.
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ess it's
> fine.
With modern systems booting so fast I wonder why anyone bothers with
hibernate or sleep.
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Greg wrote:
> On 2025-02-13, Chris Green wrote:
> > Max Nikulin wrote:
> >> On 13/02/2025 01:26, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> > Now Debian has*two* completely separate
> >> > ways to specify a default application for a role.
> >>
> >
gt; - *browser alternatives
> - BROWSER environment
> - mailcap for text/html
> - XDG configuration
>
> sensible-browser, "open", and xdg-open just use some of these options.
There's also all the MIME confguration.
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Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet
> > M15W I see four possible printers to add:-
> >
> > HP LaserJet M15w (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17
y first, and then
> Vivaldi, instead of the other way around.
>
> Problem solved.
>
> That said, I believe the three-browser problem is not generally solvable.
>
> :-)
>
Very true! I'm not even sure the one browser problem has a solution!
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Nicolas George wrote:
> Chris Green (12025-02-12):
> > I'm just wondering if a way round the issue may be to unistall
> > vivaldi, then install epiphany, then re-install vivaldi. It might be
> > that just doing 'apt reinstall vivaldi' will get me back to whe
t M15w (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
So which one should I choose? Does it matter?
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Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:02:13 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > > The other user does NOT have the same settings as me. They have
> > > their own set of plugins and settings as Tomas has pointed out. You
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > > songbird wrote:
> > > > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > > > ...
> > > > > > It would
Anssi Saari wrote:
> Chris Green writes:
>
> > Installing epiphany just added it as a choice but left vivaldi as the
> > configured browser, but still epiphany grabbed everything.
>
> Have you considered you may get better information if you actually
> define this &q
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:21:02PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > > songbird
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > songbird wrote:
> > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or
> > > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default fo
Chris Green wrote:
> I have just [re]installed an HP Laserjet Pro M15w printer on my T470
> laptop which runs Debian 12.
>
> The CUPS test page prints succesfully but nothing else seems able to
> print. The CUPS Print Status window shows the job for a few seconds
> but then
job
disappears.
I have discovered that using lpr from the command line works (just
plain text in other words).
This printer used to work fine, all I have changed is the WiFi
connection because I changed the router.
The driver being used is drvless.ppd.
What might be wrong?
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songbird wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> ...
> > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another
> > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather
> > than having to try and unset all the changes it has made.
>
> Chris
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:45:06 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in
> > epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a
> > browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphan
Anssi Saari wrote:
> Chris Green writes:
>
> > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that
> > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it
> > explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install
> >
o which is very frustrating, I only want to run it
explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install
changing all the mailcap and mime settings etc.?
(I've got my vivaldi default settings back by purging epiphany but
that's a bit extreme!)
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read via Usenet groups
> (<https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/>): "Furthermore, you can browse
> our mailing lists as Usenet newsgroups."
>
> I've never seen the Usenet equivalents documented anywhere. Do you
> know what they are? Maybe something like comp.debian or
> comp.linux.debian?
>
This one is called linux.debian.user, it's where I use it.
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27;s .profile so that a root
login that's idle for 15 minutes automatically logs out.
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ems, adding it to my
Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it?
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Tom Browder wrote:
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>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:10 Chris Green wrote:
>
> > ...
>
> > > Has anyone been able to buy the ebook and convert it to Kindle
> > > satisfactorily?
> > >
&g
onvert it to Kindle
> satisfactorily?
>
No, it's one of the reasons I use Kobo readers, they are much more
friendly to standard format e-publishing.
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Nicolas George wrote:
> Chris Green (12025-01-22):
> > I wrote a RestructuredText plugin for Dokuwiki that means (not
> > surprisingly!) that you can use RestructuredText markup in Dokuwiki.
> > You can even simply name a text file with a .rst suffix and the plugin
> >
e to work with MarkDown. Is there a simple single executable
program to convert MarkDown to HTML (as there is for RestructuredText)?
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Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:29:41PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to
> > bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using
> > ssh but not to others (t
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 13:29:41 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to
> > bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using
> > ssh but not to others (to which I c
at run an ssh
server and I can cannect to all these systems from my home desktop and
laptop machines using ssh.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose its failure to connect
to all of 'my' systems.
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to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 10:46:16AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > I somehow have got the feeling that we are talking
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:45:55AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 29 lines --]
>
oved nearly all the 'extra' DNS configuration (i.e. anything
like systemd's resolver and local DNS caching) in my main Linux
systems. I run dnsmasq on my router with a blacklist configuration so
ad-blocking works for every system on the LAN (it confuses visitors
sometimes when they don't see the usual adverts on their 'phones).
I run Vivaldi and it seems to behave fairly as one would expect in
this environment.
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Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 +
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > Anyway I have it back now. :-)
>
> Glad to hear it.
>
> For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved.
>
How do I do that via the Gmane/Usenet gateway?
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Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > Charles Curley wrote:
> > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english
> > > wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english
> > > wbritish-huge:
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 +
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > The British English dictionary is missing from
> > /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english.
>
> I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should hav
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK
> > English but now it has somehow di
nt what do I need to do to get
UK English back? :-)
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y that (the speed) is down to how fast the particular ARM or X86
system is. There's fast ARM systems and slow X86 ones (though I
woiuld guess that the fastest X86 ones are faster than the fastest ARM
ones).
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think it's the 'copiousoutput' bit that means that line
gets selected by default.
The /home/chris/bin/muttview is rather complicated in my case because
I run mutt remotely by ssh and feed the html back through the ssh
connection with a reverse tunnel to view in the browser on the client
machine. If you are running mutt locally then just call your web
browser.
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yway) .bashrc should be
used for settings that are needed for interactive shells whereas
.profile is used for settings that are used by all programs not just
interactive ones.
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to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:22:29AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/pass
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote:
> > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently
> > (lots of
> > different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorable, passwords would be
> > useless.
>
> Generate
rd that needs to be **extra** secure I suppose I
could use a written down password.
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do it from a non-existent CD/DVD.
This was a new installation done from an ISO on a USB stick.
Easy to fix if you know what the problem is (and if you like using vi,
as I do).
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John Hasler wrote:
> Chris Green writes:
> > Surely no one "has perfect knowledge of you"! :-) I'm not even sure I
> > have perfect knowledge of myself, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't!
>
> But which things about you can you be sure no one else has
(6^5)^6 or
> about 2^77.
>
But how do you remember it? It's no more memorable than a string of
numbers, in fact I find numbers easier to remember than words.
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dge of you"! :-) I'm not even sure I
have perfect knowledge of myself, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't!
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installed a keylogger, there's also likely
> some kind of screen recording software, so this seems like security
> theater.
>
Yes, I think things like key loggers or even simple 'shoulder surfing'
are the commonest ways of passwords being 'broken'.
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:31:16AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running
> > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts
> > but on previous systems I
ra
terminus fonts haven't become available.
Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available?
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itself). What you meant (and it
took me a while to realise) was that the machine was given to you.
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>
As I understand it the slots in the M2 SSD connector can tell whether
it's SATA or NVMe or both. I have an M2 SSD which I believe will work
either with a SATA connection or with NVMe, and it has two slots in
its connector.
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Karl Vogel wrote:
> Sorry, I'm a bit behind on mail.
>
> On Sun 17 Nov 2024 at 10:50:31 (-0500), Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large
> > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey
> &g
useful to try
'help ' as you don't then have to wade through the *huge*
bash man page to find what you want.
For example 'help cd' gives a nice man page like summary of how to use
cd.
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n /etc. With a new install I make a backup copy of the
old /etc and refer to it to make similar changes to the new system.
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debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > Chris Green wrote:
> > > Charles Curley wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 +
> > > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > So, do any of the cursor
Chris Green wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 +
> > Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the
> > > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of c
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 +
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the
> > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of cursor themes
> > and they don't chang
Felix Miata wrote:
> Chris Green composed on 2024-11-17 15:40 (UTC):
>
> > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large
> > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey
> > background in the terminal windows.
>
> >
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when
> the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm
> pretty sure you can set that. Go look?
>
It's not the terminal cursor so I don't think th
the colour of the I-Beam would
help, it's obviously designed to be most visible on a dark background.
Please note this is the X/mouse cursor I'm talking about, not the text
cursor that shows where you are entering text in a terminal window.
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gt; That has the logic I want.
> *BUT* it searches a local cache.
> I want to search the Debian repository.
apt-file searches the repositories, you'll probably need to install it
as it's not installed by default.
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my case) desktop. All you need to do at the Windows
end is allow access using RDP and it all 'just works'.
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Chris Green wrote:
> I have quite a long ~/.ssh/config file.
>
> I have been trying to rationalise it a bit and share bits that are
> common to several systems. So I have two sections referring to a
> host that I call 'caracal', the first is:-
>
> #
>
says?
There is also another minor ambiguity that I don't quite understand.
Near the top of the man page for 'Host' is says: "If more than one
pattern is provided, they should be separated by whitespace." but in
'PATTERNS' at the bottom it says: "A pattern-list is a comma-separated
list of patterns."
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Anssi Saari wrote:
> Chris Green writes:
>
> > But there is no Python 2 available for Debian 12...
>
> That's just what's in the package manager. Python source code is
> available and from that any Python version can be built. Pyenv is a tool
> which makes
Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:43AM -0500, songbird wrote:
> > Chris Green wrote:
> > > Thanks to various people here helping me to understand a bit more about
> > > containers and some searching and experimentation I now have a
> > >
ave a reasonable solution using
Distrobox to run a Ubuntu 18.04 image in a container. It's reasonably
'clean' and should last me for a while.
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songbird wrote:
> Lists wrote:
> > On 2024-11-08 16:51, Chris Green wrote:
> >
> >> Well, yes, it sounds like it doesn't it. However, apparently, there
> >> are various things that prevent one from creating a python 2.x virtual
> >> environment on
Lists wrote:
> On 2024-11-08 13:57, Chris Green wrote:
> > songbird wrote:
> >> Chris Green wrote:
> >>> songbird wrote:
> >>>> Chris Green wrote:
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>i haven't needed them a
ntinue to 'just work'. :-)
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Florent Rougon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 08/11/2024, Chris Green a écrit:
>
> > No use at all! :-) It's a scanner applet to drive my OKI scanner and
> > I want the output to end up on my working system where I will use it
> > in E-Mail or whatever.
>
> D
songbird wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > songbird wrote:
> >> Chris Green wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >> i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into
> >> them.
> >>
> >>
> >> > I'm particul
songbird wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> ...
>
> i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into
> them.
>
>
> > I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye
> > within my Debian Bookworm system. I'm looking for some
ither backup or
main server) it gets duplicated to the other system by syncthing.
This works perfectly, I can read mail on either system using mutt and
everything looks identical and keeps in step. Syncthing is a very
clever bit of software.
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Todd Zullinger wrote:
> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 25 lines --]
>
> Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating
> > collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I
>
ap but although
they might be able to do what I'm after they're not quite what I want
and do seem very complex to build. From where I am, running virtualbox
will be (much) simpler.
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Loris Bennett wrote:
> Chris Green writes:
>
> > Andy Smith wrote:
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 10:54:17PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> >> > I have an OKI scanner which has a neat little linux app for running it
> >
David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 17:17:44 (+), Chris Green wrote:
> > I have found how to get it to install, I removed the other (SATA SSD)
> > disk drive. It now boots successfully, phew!
>
> Good.
>
> > I've no idea why that second drive
Xiyue Deng wrote:
> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 61 lines --]
>
> Chris Green writes:
>
[snip]
> >
> > The ideal would be some sort of mini virtualbox type of environment
> > that supports python 2.7.
> >
>
> Using Do
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 10:54:17PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have an OKI scanner which has a neat little linux app for running it
> > from a linux desktop. However it hasn't been updated from python 2.7
> > days and I
e sort of mini virtualbox type of environment
that supports python 2.7.
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mp / tail -f /var/log/… / make you wanted to pause to inspect
> > something?
>
> I always use `C-z` for that.
>
Yes, I suppose that works too (if in a rather different way).
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nspect
> something?
>
It's handy if you see a warning message while apt-install (or anything
else) is running, you can stop the output and check whether you need
to do something about it.
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from installing grub/boot, now they're installed the system
boots quite happily with the drive installed.
Very strange! :-)
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gs but that can wait
until tomorrow, I'm worn out watching installations! :-)
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y old (xubuntu) installation across
onto that drive.
I will try putting it back later to see if it breaks the Debian 12
installtion but for the moment I'm just relieved I've got it working
at last!
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install.
> > How would I "Boot the install using legacy BIOS, then manually change
> > the install to use grub-efi", I can't see anywhere in the installation
> > process that would allow me to do this.
>
> That's why I said "manually".
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
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