Conceivable systemd workarounds v0.9

2014-09-08 Thread GoOSSBears
A 0.90 revision on the thread 'brasero requires gvfs'. I see several viable options for those of us having to deal with systemd in Debian. I'll be upfront right from the startx; YMMV. 1. The obvious default choice is to deal with systemd as it is. In other words, "Try it, you'll like it, you'r

Multiple CD ISO-image USB Booting?

2013-01-22 Thread GoOSSBears
Thanks for previous responses concerning [1] and [2] on direct image-copying of Debian-Testing for USb booting. Single CD ISO-images of Testing boot fine on small USB drives using dd/cat/cp for copying the image to /dev/sdX. Another question I have is whether multiple images of Testing can be e

Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-15 Thread GoOSSBears
Hey advanced Debian users, I would like to use a full CD ISO image of Testing/Wheezy (e.g., one of the downloaded CD images from an /iso-cd subfolder of [1]) to make a bootable USB stick onto a 1 GB, 2 GB or larger capacity stick. Several related questions really, all related to Section 4.3 of t

Reducing size of /lib following an 'apt-get upgrade'?

2012-03-26 Thread GoOSSBears
Have Debian Wheezy installed and recently performed an 'apt-get upgrade' to kernel 3.2.0 (3.2.0-2-686-pae in full). The system is a single-boot/Debian-only x86 machine with an intentionally-limited 400MB root partition (/), besides larger and separate partitions of /var, /usr, /home, /opt, /tmp

Re: Squeeze Release ?

2010-12-02 Thread GoOSSBears
* Subject: Re: Squeeze Release ? * From: Ken Heard * Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:36:37 -0500 Brent Clark wrote: > Does anyone know if Squeeze is going be Frozen in December or > know of anything for that matter. No announcement of a freeze yet, but read the following: -