On 5/29/25 11:13, Russell L. Harris wrote:
Should I purchase a used computer with AMD RX550 video?
On 5/29/25 14:17, Russell L. Harris wrote:
Thanks, Dan & Andrew. I don't play games; I use the computer
for composition using emacs and latex.
Blair has a close-out sale on W10 machines, and
On 5/26/25 13:02, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
Now I connect a SATA to USB adapter cable to a 2.5" SATA SSD and
install Debian onto the SSD:
https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb
Can you boot it on both BIOS and EFI mac
On 5/26/25 11:23, Lee wrote:
For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
into linux and run windows as a vm?
My wife is trying to decide if she wants to keep windows on her laptop
or no. Obviously, it's ea
On 5/25/25 13:26, xuser wrote:
Debian 13 (trixie) keeps locking up after 22-55 days in qemu. And
there is nothing to show what's wrong in the systemd journal Any
ideas about what wrong?
On 5/25/25 20:41, xuser wrote:
I can't be swap, because non is setup
On previous versions of Debian, I t
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) with persistence and some way to upgrade it
when next Stable gets published. Is
On 5/25/25 00:58, Tim Woodall wrote:
Hi All,
This is the third time I've had the same problem. The first time it
happened I put it down to a freak cosmic ray event. The second time it
happened gave me doubts but I cannot come up with a good alternative
explanation. Now it's happened for a thi
On 5/24/25 06:31, Tommy Berglund wrote:
Hi,
Translated by Google from Swedish
Is it possible to add an EFI system partition to a server already
running Debian 12?
How do I do it?
(parted) print devices
/dev/sda (2000GB)
/dev/sdb (2000GB)
/dev/mapper/vg-data (1888GB)
/dev/mapper/vg-www (4295MB)
On 5/20/25 15:20, Steve Matzura wrote:
After a year in storage, I'm trying to get a version 11 system back
online. I connected it to power and network, then booted it.
Interestingly, it appeared on my network not at the address it had when
it went into storage, but one given it by my local DHCP
Please use interleaved posting style rather than top-posting style:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
On 5/18/25 06:42, COMCAST wrote:
> What file does in Linux use to the store network address in?
On 5/19/25 11:11, COMCAST wrote:
Close bu no cooky. My install of Debian docent even
On 5/18/25 09:47, Default User wrote:
Hi, OP again.
1) Regarding:
"Its unclear to me from OP's message whether OP actually wants to solve
the partition sizing issue or is just complaining about it and THEN
asking for unrelated Debian 13 upgrade tips."
I originally posted asking for general adv
On 5/16/25 15:56, Default User wrote:
Hi. Thanks for the replies!
Concerning the points raised:
1) sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 8.7G 13G 41% /
/dev/nvme0n1p5 1.8G 140K 1.7G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p6 199G 53G 136G 28% /home
/dev/nvm
On 5/15/25 14:30, 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 mass storage.
Partitions:
nvme0n1 259:0
On 5/11/25 12:55, Michael Stone wrote:
The issue isn't finding the availability of potentially
useful machines that get trashed, the issue is that there isn't an
efficient market for getting those machines to people who can use them.
In years past, I bought used computers and components via c
On 5/7/25 20:38, xuser wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2025, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 2025 02:51:20 + (UTC)
xuser wrote:
After an libreoffice upgrade on may 7, My debian system does not
boot, and just shows the word "GRUB" on a black screen.
I doubt it was the libreoffice upgrade that d
On 5/5/25 13:01, Rafał Lichwała wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware?
That depends upon the hardware, upon the system administrator knowledge
and skill, and upon what technical resources are available.
If so, what "image" should I use?
Hardware spec:
On 4/25/25 07:43, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Fri 25/04/2025 at 02:54, David Christensen wrote:
If all you need is an SSH or Samba file server for a SOHO network, most
any x86_64 computer built in the last ~15 years can work.
Hi David,
I thought it was still the case that some NICs, for example
On 4/23/25 22:03, Gareth Evans wrote:
I'm based in the UK and am looking for a new PC to use as a NAS with the
capacity for at least two NVMe/SSD drives.
I note many mini PCs seem to limit the upgradable/installable SSD to 2TB.
Can anyone recommend a make or model of any kind (mini, desktop, t
On 4/24/25 10:21, Eddie wrote:
I am looking at the Staples Dell refurbished desktops for a debian
machine. No windows! I believe a hard drive and around 16gb but am not
sure of processor and do not want nvidia card. Thoughts appreciated.
Dell factory refurbished computers are pricey. Used De
On 4/23/25 16:21, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/23/25 14:49, Greg wrote:
Hi there,
What is the proper way of shutting down ZFS? After:
# /etc/init.d/zfs-share stop
# /etc/init.d/zfs-mount stop
# /etc/init.d/zfs-import stop
pool 'backup' is not mounted but:
# zpool export bac
On 4/23/25 14:49, Greg wrote:
Hi there,
What is the proper way of shutting down ZFS? After:
# /etc/init.d/zfs-share stop
# /etc/init.d/zfs-mount stop
# /etc/init.d/zfs-import stop
pool 'backup' is not mounted but:
# zpool export backup
cannot export 'backup': pool is busy
How it is possible
On 4/21/25 17:13, Arbol One wrote:
In my Debian 12, the keyboard stopped working all of the sudden, i
tried using the 'Screen Keyboard', but it didn't work either. Coming
from the world of Windows 10, I intended to reinstall the Debian.
With the memory stick containing the Debian installation fi
On 4/15/25 07:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
I don't know how to approach the problem.
What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the
two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of
[ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/
TFP2021.pdf ].
Sugge
On 4/10/25 08:35, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/10/25 00:14, Michel Verdier wrote:
A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$
I assume you mean Microsoft Windows (?). Which version (4.0, XP, Vista,
7, 8, 8.5, 10, 11, etc.) and which edition (Home, Pro, Workstation, etc.)?
Here is a better
On 4/10/25 00:14, Michel Verdier wrote:
A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$
I assume you mean Microsoft Windows (?). Which version (4.0, XP, Vista,
7, 8, 8.5, 10, 11, etc.) and which edition (Home, Pro, Workstation, etc.)?
and his computer
Make and model of computer? CPU? Memory?
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
On 4/4/25 22:01, William Torrez Corea wrote:
I have enabled swap memory, but if i disable the swap memory the machine is
slow.
I tried running computers without swap and found that they crashed when
the running programs used too much memory. Now I allocate 1 GB swap on
the system drive duri
debian-user:
I would like to use the Perl module Digest::SHA256 on Debian:
2025-04-02 15:57:50 root@laalaa ~
# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-34-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.234-1 (2025-02-24)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2025-04-02 15:58:20 root@laalaa ~
# perl -v
This is perl
On 4/2/25 16:18, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
But installing libdigest-sha-perl does not provide Digest::SHA256:
They are different modules.
https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA256
https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA
Digest::SHA256
On 3/31/25 14:36, mick.crane wrote:
Xfce4
I've loads of Perl scripts dotted about in different directories I'd
like to select them in Thunar and run them in a terminal with a click or
two.
"Open terminal here" in Xfce desktop is very handy but still have to
list the directory contents, find th
On 3/28/25 10:11, Ife Wright wrote:
I want to install debian but I don't understand why I have to erase
everything on my hard disk to do it,I just want to install without erasing
my hard disk
It sounds like what you want is "dual boot" -- e.g. a bootable disk
drive with more than one operatin
On 3/28/25 11:49, COMCAST wrote:
I have a working install of 12.90. But am experiencing a minor hiccup.
Please open a terminal, run the following command, and copy and paste
the entire console session into a reply -- prompt, command entered,
output displayed:
2025-03-28 12:16:06 dpchrist@la
On 3/23/25 02:19, BALDO wrote:
Hi everyone, I have a question for you. We work with BD images, but is it
possible to merge these images and put them on an external m.2? If we create the
first bootable disk on the external memory with Balena Etcher, then manually add
the packages in the pool folde
On 3/21/25 12:32, Eben King wrote:
I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds a backup.
It's starting to become too small, not because it's shrinking, but
because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to do something that ends up
with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 disks. It'd
On 3/15/25 13:36, Andy Smith wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 01:18:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I am curious -- if I make my /etc directory tree into a version control
system working directory (Git or otherwise), please explain how this would
be catastrophic.
/etc has things in it
On 3/15/25 12:50, Tim Woodall wrote:
git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this
may not be relevant to your usecase, for example backing up /etc would
be catastrophic (which is why we have etckeeper)
I am curious -- if I make my /etc directory tree into a version c
On 3/13/25 23:07, tim wade wrote:
Hello
I plan to make increment backup for my home dir.
It's currently in the size of 1xx GB.
besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup?
Thank you.
"Incremental backup" implies "full backup" -- e.g. make full backups on
Sund
On 3/11/25 19:07, Felix Miata wrote:
I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining available
versions of any Debian package has always vexed me.
I look up packages on this page:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
If I scroll down to the "Search package directo
On 3/9/25 14:50, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 12:04:10PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems
to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?).
It's highly configurable. It also logs to syslog, and mails can be
dis
On 3/9/25 14:28, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 12:04:10 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems
to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?). I have yet to figure out
how fetch root mail messages from my daily driver mail
On 3/9/25 06:48, Christopher David Howie wrote:
On 3/9/25 9:26 AM, Eben King wrote:
The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design
choice. "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk".
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
"readonly" means "don't allow the contents o
On 3/9/25 06:26, Eben King wrote:
On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote:
AIUI SMR does not work well for OS (e.g. /tmp, swap) and general-purpose
(e.g. /home) disks that see frequent small random write workloads. I
prefer small high-quality 2.5" SSD's (Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB)
On 3/8/25 21:40, Christopher David Howie wrote:
On 3/2/25 2:35 PM, David Christensen wrote:
The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design
choice. "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk". I
must remember that land mine if and w
On 3/6/25 17:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it. It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD
Ryzen 5 5600G. I also have a 2TB Seagate HD
On 3/6/25 18:33, Maureen Thomas wrote:
root@debian:/var# find -size +10M -ls
...
I prefer:
2025-03-06 18:55:31 root@laalaa ~/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com
# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2025-03-
On 3/3/25 02:03, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote:
[...]
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 064 006 Pre-fail
Always - 146369262
146 million read-errors.
7
On 3/2/25 07:49, Eben King wrote:
I backed up my system on Saturday (yesterday), and pulled a stupid.
I'll explain.
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive ta
On 1/28/25 20:12, Maureen Thomas wrote:
On 1/28/25 9:58 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 1/26/25 17:11, 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
On 1/26/25 17:11, 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 turns off. I am using Chrominu
On 1/20/25 05:37, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I don't think it's fake but it's the lack of partition being the main
issue.
I've just reconnected it to the previous system and found this in history:
sudo mkfs.exfat /dev/nvme0n1
sudo mkdir /mnt/nvme0n1
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/nvme0n1
I think the
On 1/18/25 17:27, Default User wrote:
Hi!
I have two identical 4Tb usb external drives, Western Digital Model WDC
WD40NDZW-11A8JS1. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Model 3511 (a
very modest laptop), from early 2024, running Debian 12 Stable, always
kept updated.
Thank you for that info
On 1/14/25 19:42, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi David,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:28:28PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
I suggest that you unmount any filesystems on the SSD and then fill the SSD
with random bytes using dd(1).
If the purpose of this is to check that the full capacity of the NVMe is
On 1/14/25 10:13, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
On 14/01/2025 17:02, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:30:17PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I need NTFS to connect it to a WS 2019 machine later.
... (Storage fraud really is a thing, where people sell drives
that have less storage than rep
On 12/29/24 05:10, Rafał Lichwała wrote:
On 29.12.2024 04:07, David Christensen wrote:
Make? ... Model?
Sorry, I should start my previous email from those details.
Dell XPS 13 (the old model, 9370), Intel UHD Graphics 620
Thank you for the information. It helps us provide better answers
On 12/28/24 16:20, Rafał Lichwała wrote:
Hi,
I plan to switch completely from Windows 11 to Debian on my laptop,
Make? Dell, below. It is better to state this information at the top
of your message.
Model?
but
as a first step I'd like to configure double-boot setup to give it a
try
On 12/26/24 11:35, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Saturday 21 December 2024 08:14:11 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Saturday 21 December 2024 02:20:20 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Set the machine to boot in UEFI mode if this is available rather than
legacy MBR / both.
Why is this preferable
On 12/16/24 10:50, Joe wrote:
I would add that many modern computers are almost hardwired for
Windows. ...
So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found.
I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory
did not contain a Microsoft directory containing
On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote:
I have a Dell T5820 workstation. I had already installed Debian 12 in a
spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory
stick. I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the
workstation. All went well - a very smooth i
On 12/15/24 15:15, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/10/24 23:06, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/10/24 18:07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 18:01:24 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
If official Debian packages cause your system to crash, then your
Debian
installation is broken.
Or
On 12/15/24 02:55, Roger Price wrote:
I have to replace a dead SSD and re-install Debian 12. I use Graphical
Install with manual partitioning of the disks so that I can specify
mount points for my existing RAID partitions on spinning disks. During
the specification of my new partitions I made
On 12/15/24 07:30, Hans wrote:
I had this one until about 14 days ago, when my Lenovo T520 dies, which was
the only one with eSATA connector.
That sounds like a "USB/eSATA combo" port. My Dell Latitude E6520 has
one. I use this cable to connect a 2.5" SATA drive:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/
On 12/14/24 12:02, Hans wrote:
Hi folks,
I was unaware, that a native installed linux is capable from booting at the
USB-port!
I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native means, the
harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from it. This was nice!
Thus some qu
On 12/14/24 12:40, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/14/24 12:38, David Christensen wrote:
Please post a photograph online somewhere when it is built. I am
curious to see your custom/ mod/ 3-D printed case.
Just the shelves are printed, you can get the case from amazon as a
stamped sheet metal
On 12/14/24 06:41, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/14/24 02:51, David Christensen wrote:
A storage server would be a useful addition to your network:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00179.html
Its life testing drives now, but not fully assembled, using a separate
psu, a bananapi m5
On 12/14/24 07:43, Max Nikulin wrote:
systemd-analyze verify rsyslog.service
My daily driver, for comparison:
2024-12-14 08:31:02 root@laalaa ~
# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2024-12-14 08:
On 12/14/24 06:23, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/14/24 00:52, David Christensen wrote:
Have you contacted Seagate to see if the drives are eligible for
Rescue Data Recovery Services?
https://www.seagate.com/products/rescue-data-recovery/
Screw seagate with a hot branding iron., they used the
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 the brush off.
Often because they are asking me to start fresh with clean drives, a
multiday operation to collect all the stuff I use daily. I have already
don
On 12/13/24 20:29, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/13/24 22:20, Max Nikulin wrote:
dpkg -V
gene@coyote:~$ dpkg -V
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
Please run `dpkg -V` as root.
David
On 12/13/24 19:20, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 14/12/2024 07:04, gene heskett wrote:
I've done that to both orca and brltty, the dependency's seem to have
been removed now.
What is output of the following command?
dpkg -l orca brltty
Does
dpkg -V
reports anything besides conffiles? Fig
On 12/13/24 12:50, gene heskett wrote:
I bought two new 2T Seagates to install
bookworm on, spent a week copying almost 26 years worth of my personal
history to them, 2 weeks later both of them died, going off line in the
middle of the night, so I lost stuff that went back to Feb. 98. So that
On 12/13/24 07:00, Charles Curley wrote:
orca is pulled in by "apt install task-xfce-desktop".
On January , 2022, I installed (via USB flash drive):
debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst
onto a 2.5" SATA III SSD (Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB) to create
laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com, my current daily d
On 12/12/24 10:15, gene heskett wrote:
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Device Descriptor:
I would remove the USB receiver, the wireless keyboard, and the wireless
mouse. Connect a known good wired USB keyboard and a known good wired
USB mouse. Then try the
On 12/12/24 09:47, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/12/24 12:30, David Christensen wrote:
So, that mouse is incompatible with d-i. Use a mouse that is
compatible. I prefer Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB and PS/2
Compatible. They work with every computer and KVM switch I use.
They are all
On 12/11/24 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote:
I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox. I typically enable only
enough JavaScript to get a site working. YouTube recently changed their
site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com
On 12/12/24 00:44, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/11/24 23:52, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/11/24 17:42, gene heskett wrote:
First, I don't own a wired mouse except the serial interfaced one on
my now dead from nearly 40 yo caps trs-80 color computer
I thought you ran a graphical de
On 12/11/24 12:08, 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 half full, and swap is about 10
ter position to troubleshoot any issues.
Those 2 slots, rumor
has it only 1 will work, but which one? No one can tell me.
On 12/9/24 17:51, David Christensen wrote:
>> 2. Connect the 1 TB WD Black M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 SSD into motherboard
>> slot M.2_1.
Please RTFM:
https://www.asus.
On 12/10/24 22:59, Bob McGowan wrote:
And I'm here to say I've also had problems I've imputed to Tbird, based
on the fact that when Tbird is NOT running, the systme is as solid as a
rock.
I have also had issues with Thunderbird. It works most of the time and
I cannot argue with the price, so
On 12/10/24 22:17, gene heskett wrote:
The package managers apt and synaptic cannot find
anything wrong, and I should be on record as reporting that opening any
local file takes a minimum of 30 seconds to pop up the requester, during
which time the system is also locked.
That symptom alone
On 12/10/24 21:15, gene heskett wrote:
The current debian supplied t-bird doesn't [work].
I am running Old Stable on my machines:
2024-12-11 16:25:14 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Lin
On 12/10/24 18:07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 18:01:24 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
If official Debian packages cause your system to crash, then your Debian
installation is broken.
Or the hardware is broken. Running a specfic program may exercise the
broken hardware in a
On 12/10/24 13:51, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/9/24 20:51, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/9/24 06:59, gene heskett wrote:
If your computer is crashing within a minute, consider printing this
e-mail.
A: It didn't last long enough to even get this msg.
Understood.
B: I dl'd the
On 12/10/24 15:03, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I think it's time to throw in the towel. The only reason I'm spending
so much time on this is that I had knee surgery a few days ago and I'm
sitting here at home, not mobile enough to do much else but putter with
my machines. But I think I'll just forget
On 12/9/24 06:59, gene heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
If your computer is crashing within a minute, consider printing this e-mail.
I assume the subject "restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze"
refers to your Asus PRIME Z370-A II desktop/ workstation/ storage server
compu
On 12/5/24 18:03, nsrxnst wrote:
while I was at work, chaos happened in my house. my wife cleaned my office, and
her nephew locked himself in there.
my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, but the underlying
system has always functioned just fine, and to that extent, I have
On 12/2/24 08:49, 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.
In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX.
The new one then would
On 12/2/24 00:02, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 3:47 PM David Christensen
wrote:
On 12/1/24 04:27, Greg wrote:
Hi there,
I'm setting up MD-RAID0 on a top of HW-RAID6 devices (long story). I
would like to confirm the following:
1. The RAID0 chunk size should be the s
On 12/1/24 10:19, William Torrez Corea wrote:
I make a disk image but this makes a backup of free space and full space of
the disk.
I am using dd (Unix) and using gnome-disk-utility.
How can I make a disk image of selected data?
I don't want to make a backup of the entire disk.
I use dd(1)
On 12/1/24 04:27, Greg wrote:
Hi there,
I'm setting up MD-RAID0 on a top of HW-RAID6 devices (long story). I
would like to confirm the following:
1. The RAID0 chunk size should be the stripe width of the
underlying RAID6 volumes.
2. The RAID0 metadata should be at the end of the device (meta
On 11/28/24 03:47, Tom Browder wrote:
My main computer is acting strangely as if it has either memory issues or
some other hardware problem. I have not had any time to do any diagnosis.
As a quick solution, could I swap the single SSD to another computer and
expect it to boot up?
Thanks, and Ha
On 11/25/24 22:03, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Many thanks to all of you who have replied to my questions.
YW. :-)
It seems that I've been creating trouble for myself by trying
to kludge something together from the old installation.
The only reason I tried this was the age-old problem I
have when
On 11/24/24 17:56, 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 drivers up to version 390, w
On 11/21/24 16:24, Bitfox wrote:
Hi
I have a interactive command like the following,
$ ./filen
/ > upload upt-snappy /
Uploading upt-snappy [] 100% |
ETA: 0s | 1.4 KiB / 1.32 KiB
/ >
the command "filen" will open a interactive shell, and in this shell
On 10/28/24 08:46, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 10:13 PM David Christensen <
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
On 10/27/24 13:19, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:36:32 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
To allow the Sensor plugin access to har
On 10/27/24 13:19, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:36:32 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
To allow the Sensor plugin access to hard disk temperatures, I have
set the set-user-ID bit on hddtemp(8):
# chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
hddtemp has been superseded by a kernel module
On 10/26/24 22:11, Corey wrote:
where shall i check the CPU temperature in command line?
my dell laptop gets hot and hot when debian run for some time. do you think
it's due to cpu too busy?
Thanks.
My current daily driver is a Dell PowerEdge T30 Xeon E3-1225 v5:
2024-10-27 08:28:10 root@la
On 10/20/24 10:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be
a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks
about the ability to print the data. Which requires you t
On 10/20/24 13:00, William Torrez Corea wrote:
I am trying to boot my USB but this device is unrecognizable for the BIOS.
How can I convert filesystems through DD?
I want to save a copy of the file in MSDOS or GPT.
What is the make and model of your computer?
What is the make and model of
On 10/16/24 21:59, William Torrez Corea wrote:
What happened with my CMOS battery?
I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the
date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine.
Start the operating system, the system loads but then restart and th
On 10/4/24 04:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/03/2024 06:34 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/3/24 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
Is there standard/recommended location for an executable to be used
by only a one user?
In my case it should be under /home/richard/ .
But where?
It would help if
On 10/3/24 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
Is there standard/recommended location for an executable to be used by
only a one user?
In my case it should be under /home/richard/ .
But where?
TIA
It would help if you told us about the executable and the context for
its use -- e.g. self-contain b
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