On 7/16/25 16:35, Flo wrote:
Hi,
I have tried to install trixie, however, I ran into two problems at the
very beginning:
.) When I want to boot the computer, the system is not found
automatically. I have to go into BIOS for selecting the disk to have it
booted. At the installation process I
Somehow, the newlines in your post got lost (?).
On 7/14/25 11:12, Borden wrote:
2025-07-14 11:37:17 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ perl -pe 's/>/\n>>/g' foo | perl -pe 's/\. ?/.\n> /g'
My unsolicited, unprofessionl, free advice:
>> Is it better than fstrim.
> timer mentioned in this thread?
>>
>> Some ye
On 7/13/25 13:23, David Christensen wrote:
`dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M /dev/sdX`
I apologize -- that command is wrong, in more than one way. Here is an
console session from when I zeroed a 1 TB HDD:
1. Find the number of sectors:
2024-11-28 13:59:57 root@bullseye-bios ~
# parted /dev/disk/by
On 7/13/25 09:29, songbird wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
...
I would expect a new SSD to be securely erased by the factory, but would
check this assumption (and do an informal sequential read benchmark):
2025-07-12 12:13:02 root@laalaa ~
# time dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1M | hexdump -C
00
On 7/13/25 04:37, songbird wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
...
Yes, things get very bad when bad people control the SSD firmware. I
can only hope the firmware in my SSD's is legitimate, and updates are
cryptographically signed.
When using d-i to initialize a physical volume for encrypti
On 7/12/25 21:46, songbird wrote:
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote:
On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote:
I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them
to my existing setup,
Be sure to do a secure erase before you put
On 7/12/25 20:33, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 11/07/2025 09:41, David Christensen wrote:
AIUI SSD over-provisioning combined with setting the discard flag in
fstab(5) provides maximum performance for write intensive workloads.
Is it better than fstrim.timer mentioned in this thread?
Some years ago
On 7/12/25 06:19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote:
On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote:
I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them
to my existing setup,
Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's
On 7/11/25 11:16, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
Well I thought of something that actually fixed the damn printer. When
I downloaded the damn updated file it changed the name from Laser Jet
Pro to something else. I just changed the printer name to the one I
have used from day one and it prints. I a
On 7/10/25 16:37, rickm...@shaw.ca wrote:
On 2025-07-10 04:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote:
In 30 years I've never seen an isolated network. May I ask how this
might be done?
An alternative example (with no Wi-Fi):
* One switch or hub. Connect to power.
On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote:
hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :)
I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them
to my existing setup,
Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's into service:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Erase
On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On 2025-07-09 18:43, David Christensen wrote:
On 7/9/25 10:39, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I had a question that I forgot to add to my initial long post. This
was since "top" didn't show any great CPU usage, could the encryption
have been perfo
On 7/9/25 18:04, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I am using Debian Bookworm latest updates with a HP desktop. The
computer works fine now and that is thanks to you guys who helped me get
it that way. I thank you all for you assistance.
I am glad you were able to get the PIA VPN installed. :-)
I
On 7/9/25 10:39, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I had a question that I forgot to add to my initial long post. This was
since "top" didn't show any great CPU usage, could the encryption have
been performed on another machine (Windows or one of my 3 Android Kodi
boxes)? A number of you suggested exactly
On 7/6/25 19:47, Rick Macdonald wrote:
After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to
that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11
days ago.
On 7/7/25 17:18, David Christensen wrote:
Please boot live media in the server, open a root terminal, mount
On 7/6/25 19:47, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I apologize for the length of this question.
After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to
that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days
ago.
I would power off all computers on your network. Only boot
On 7/3/25 09:40, масляков дмитрий wrote:
Hello.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874
I accidentally attached the file [$$$ (application/octet-stream, attachment)].
How can I delete it?
I suspect that you cannot delete an attachment to a bug report once the
bug report has
On 7/1/25 04:25, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 21:36:14 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
The next time you log in, sudo(8) should work:
$ sudo pia-linux-3.6.1-08339.run
Even if sudo works, that command won't. It would need to be something
like:
sudo chmod +x pia-
On 6/30/25 18:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
Ok guys, I finally had to reinstall Debian bookworm and lost all my
passwords. I did get a refund on the VPN but have spent the last three
days changing all my passwords to get into the bills and pay them. I
went for PIA VPN and followed instructions
On 6/30/25 17:36, David Christensen wrote:
+1 for multi-boot via multiple drives.
Mobile racks facilitate changing drives:
https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/mobile-racks
https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/m2-removable-pcie-n1
I should add -- only insert one bootable drive at a time
On 6/30/25 13:59, Van Snyder wrote:
I'm working on an ASUS computer for a deceased colleague's widow.
He had Fedora 28 on a HDD. I installed Debian 12 on an NVME drive. She
also wanted Windoze 11 so I installed it on another NVME drive.
The boot mode was set to "legacy" but the Windoze installe
On 6/23/25 19:06, Maureen Thomas wrote:
Using the latest Linux 12 there is. I had vpn by nord. All of a sudden
the password app wanted my master password. I had renewed it as asked
by them 5 days ago along with the recovery code. I typed it in and it
said wrong password. I have only had on
On 6/23/25 09:50, Angelo wrote:
I didnt find the cause of the problem but it looks like altabbing was the
cause of my crashes, looking on forums it seems like im not the only one
with this problem, i changed my desktop environment to kde plasma and
apparently the altabbing and crashing stopped bu
On 6/21/25 20:23, Angelo wrote:
*Crash 1:* When I'm playing minecraft or any other game and I have an
application that produces sound like youtube music or anything else if I
change windows the system starts making crackling sounds, after those
sounds start to occur the system starts to slow down
On 6/5/25 01:01, white-wolf wrote:
Hi,
Apparently, the era of the Minitel is truly over...
200€ for an acceptable machine, it's clear that given the price of VPS,
my idea is not profitable...
Another question, how can I offer a managed IT services for
individuals, more or less on a large scale?
On 6/4/25 18:14, white-wolf wrote:
Dear Debian Users,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am looking to set up a system using my Dell Latitude E4300 as a thin
client connected to an OVH VPS to create a decentralized desktop
environment. My Dell no longer has enough power to run Debian/Linux
w
On 6/4/25 11:09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
Dear advanced users and developers,
Debian is making so big joy to Me that I want to install it to my USB
external SSD harddisk.
Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not
cooperate with my UEFI firmware.
So Grub is being
On 5/30/25 10:20, Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 02:18:06AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Perhaps you could take Debian Live
media to Blair and test before purchase?
Regrettably, no. Blair is in Kentucky; I am in Texas.
Okay. Reading ahead, Debian should work fine on
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
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