On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put
there by the installer for the more common case where a machine doesn't
have a fixed LAN IP address. M
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 09:34:42PM +0200, coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me
wrote:
Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available
to others users" enabled for the "Connect Automatically" setting to be
respected, in case there is a bug, or close this issue as solved? I'
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:28:24PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send
something to coyote.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN address
when 127.0.1.1 is just as good. If the line is correct, it does
nothing; if it's incorrect, it can cause har
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:19:08PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
Off Topic I just did a 1 year diploma in advanced networking. I
couldn't even comprehend why the still had crossover cables in the
lab. Perhaps to accommodate pre-2000 CISCO switches?
cisco was one of the companies that was late to
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:38:29PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
... when a cable from the server is connected to the Ethernet port
of a client device, the Debian server will automatically recognize
the new physical connection and then automatically activate that
connection.
It sounds
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:59:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I think the idea is, software can always use 127.0.1.1 to find the
host's fully qualified domain name, without the need to know real IP
address. (And what to do with multihomed hosts?)
It literally doesn't matter. The host knows it
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 03:03:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:19:48 -0400>Michael Stone wrote:
If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again.
Thank you.
To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up. It
is necessary to touch
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 09:09:24AM +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
Mike Castle writes:
I believe /run/utmp is gone in trixie, after systemd was upgraded to
256.5-2.
If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or
lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login,
as I have for nigh on three decades, so that I land in my preferred,
consistent cwd, /root.
su -
do
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 11:35:08AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:36:46 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead
disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond.
Not quite. The electronics may resp
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:08:21PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Le 3/12/25 à 23:11, Michael Stone a écrit :
Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anything from them
So this means I can't rely on smartctl to list physical disks,
I guess I don't understand
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 04:41:06PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
I have 5 disks on my server,
2x1 terabyte disks + 3x450 Gb disks,
but smartctl and cciss_vol_status only show 3 disks.
My controller is sg0 as shown in the output of lssci
Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anyth
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
disabled entirely or replaced by some other scrip
On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:49:41AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
So. This time, while the backup was in process, I mounted /home
read-only to check something out. Apparently that's not good enough to
keep the filesystem intact, because at the end when I resumed, several
things in $HOME didn't work ri
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed.
What does
apt show -a linux-image-amd64 | grep -e Version -e Sources -e Depends
return on each system?
If you
apt update
on each system, are there any error messages?
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 04:51:47PM +0100, basti wrote:
virt-manger say Warning: KVM is not available.
try
dmesg | grep -i kvm
You may see a message about kvm failing to activate, which is often
caused by a bios setting disabling the virtualization extensions. If
there's nothing at all, che
On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 02:25:51PM -, Greg wrote:
On 2025-02-06, Charles Curley wrote:
I suspect we'll be living with mixed .list and .sources files as
suppliers upgrade what they ship.
I haven't been following the long thread about the modernization of apt
sources.
I'm running Bookworm
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:53:49AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:42:27 -0500
Michael Stone wrote:
>...except that, per the rest of the discussion in that bug, it almost
>certainly won't be able to predict which signer to apply for each
>sources.list entr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 10:22:17AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
I haven't seen this hit yet (though I probably will next time I
dist-upgrade against testing), but a comment in bug #1094263 leads me to
suspect that there is now supposed to be an 'apt modernize-sources'
sub-command, which looks like
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:09:37AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Is there anything that tells one how to make this conversion? Better
yet, a script or two to do it for us? There will be a lot of people
scrambling to convert at the last minute.
Yes, current version prompts on what to do.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Hans wrote:
Fourth: exfat (needed or big files) does not have a journal like ext3 or ext4,
so data may be going corrupt on the harddrive and could not be restored.
That's not what a journal is for, and if the copy completes and the disk
is unmounted th
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote:
You mean, linux-image-amd64 in bookworm-backports, which currently
draws in linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (= 6.12.9-1~bpo12+1), can be
expected to NOT draw in some 6.13 like 6.13~rc7+1~exp1 currently
already having appeared in the ex
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote:
Well, I thought that some easy receipt would pop up as an answer to my
question on how to achieve such automatic upgrades. As this did not
happen I conclude that the wished procedure is not so common and not
readily worked out by now
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 10:57:53PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Has the following been Fixed or back ported to 3.2.7?
Stop trolling. If you want to use arch, go use arch and be happy.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Hans wrote:
Now I heard of, that a NVME drive will only get to full speed, if UEFI is
activated in BIOS. Is this correct?
No, at least for linux; I can't speak to windows.
Another question, not really important: The device names, like "/dev/hdX", "/
d
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 05:53:18AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:26:17PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 06:13:44PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> I'm giving exfat a shot and so far I'm impressed with 160 MB/s average
> transfer r
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 06:13:44PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I'm giving exfat a shot and so far I'm impressed with 160 MB/s average
transfer rate (HDD -> NVMe).
That's significantly faster than before.
Partially because I'm using "rsync -avh --no-perms --no-group
--no-owner ..." this time.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:30:17PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I need NTFS to connect it to a WS 2019 machine later.
Have you considered exfat? Support for that on linux is much better than ntfs.
At the very least I'd format the drive as anything other than ntfs and
retry as suggested elsewh
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 01:31:30PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
Debian doesn't, ifupdown does, which is perfectly believable since
ifupdown is quite an old package with not many people working on it. It
simply hasn't been updated to stop using brctl.
More importantly, who cares? It gets the job don
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 02:10:52PM +0100, cen wrote:
ab -n 1 -c 1 https://www.google.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1913912 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarki
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
I am unable to erase an unwanted RAID 1 array. Command cat /proc/mdstat
reported
md4 : active raid1 sdb7[0]
20970368 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
I understand that the array has to b
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 02:46:13AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
For example, my computers had 5.12 kB,
65.356 kB, 16.777216 MB, 67.108864 MB, 268.435456 MB, 1.073741824 GB,
and 8.589934592 GB of RAM. Perfectly correct, but I prefer to say
they had 5 kiB, 64 kiB, 16 MiB, 64 MiB, 256 MiB, 1 GiB, an
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory
modules: alignment requirements, maximum sizes of files and devices,
size of stripes, they are al
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:04:09PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> TB is about 10% larger. One of the worst crimes in computer history
> was ever talking about storage in powers of 2, I really wish it would
> just go away. It has properties that nobody wants and has been the
> sourc
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers
of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk out there
has flaws. To get around that, data is divided into sectors, and
checksums calculated. Do
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:05:11AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
TB is about 10% larger.
Hmm. Even talking about this is hard. The unit TiB is 1099511627776
bytes while the unit TB is 1 bytes. That is, when talking
about a drive, expressing it in TB is about a 10% larger number
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:44:00AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name
> only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable
> space.
18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:25:02AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:08:52AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process?
Look at pidstat in the sysstat package. I think you'll need multiple
tools to get everything y
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:08:52AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process?
Look at pidstat in the sysstat package. I think you'll need multiple
tools to get everything you're looking for, e.g., maybe lsof.
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 10:54:21AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
And of course people would pick up the phone while you were connected...
When I got a second phone for the modem I was truly living the dream. :D
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 09:59:20AM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
On Friday, 03-01-2025 at 09:46 fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
i managed a half dozen hp9000 servers with 200 2gb drives
lvm came in pretty handy :)
I have no good memories of hpux servers. :-D But yes, the linux LVM was
inspired
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 11:24:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
But… do we really car?
We kinda do when one person one person can generate 10% of list traffic
and drive another 20%, especially if the results of all that traffic is
basically nothing positive. (For year after year after year.)
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:29:08PM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
I once used/tested with RAID 6 and was amazed how long it took to rebuild a 3TB
swapped hard drive (about 8 hours, if I recall).
Spinning disks are slow; 8 hours for 3TB is about 100MB/s and 8h is
about how much time I'd expect i
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 10:04:51AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
I am unsure if grub images signed for Secure Boot include LVM drivers
or /boot should be outside of LVM as well.
grub should work fine these days without /boot being a separate
partition, unless you encrypt / (in which case you need
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:29:08PM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
LVM was introduced to allow extending storage by adding extra physical drives.
Storage space is allocated as virtualised storage, i.e. Logical Volumes.
Yes and no. LVM was introduced to allow flexibility in how you assign
space.
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:28:47PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
I have been running my own inbound and outbound mail servers for over
30 years using ISP connections. The only time I ran into trouble was
with gmail recently and only because of mismatched SPF records for a
domain I host.
You're
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 09:29:01AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Please don't feed the trolls.
It's a tough line to walk. On the one hand, yeah, we don't want to feed
the trolls. But if the trolls keep going anyway with no sign they will
stop, we run the risk of implicitly supporting unchallen
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 05:18:58PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Thank you for proving my point, I knew I would not be disappointed.
Your proof positive that my point is well established.
What point? The reactions you encounter are those that you've earned.
Some of the valuable content y
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 03:35:25PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
I was just attacked on this list for posting a systemd unit file that came from
Archlinux.
It was the first response in the thread.
Where were you?
I have been banned from the wiki and this list by cater and the debian elder
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Do you have a reference?
I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very interesting.
All of this advice is overly simplistic. The right answer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Roger Price wrote:
To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and
built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command
dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync
The "1" in "/dev/s
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 11:39:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
This ceaseless saga has been dragging on for over five years:
And as long as people keep playing along this mailing list will continue
to be a one man comedy hour.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 09:02:45PM +0100, Hans wrote:
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 questions appeared:
1. Is this is normal standard behaviour and can this be
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 07:32:04PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
Well, this has certainly become quite the Gene thread hasn't it?
Hey, at least nobody is wasting any time on clean installs.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:51:01AM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
Michael Stone writes:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)?
It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x d
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 11:26:51PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
I switched this NVME drive to 4k mode. However I considered your
message as statement that internally drives still use higher erase
block size
The erase block is going to be many megabytes, it has nothing to do with
the logical bloc
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:51:20PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
Michael, thank you for the long message. Actually I wonder what is
"idle" that allows drive to perform self-maintenance. I expect that
the device should not be in some deep power saving state (I am yet to
discover available tunables t
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Should have been more clear. The drive should be idle for a longer
time. This is assured by not mounting any partition of the SSD.
I was able to "repair" unreadable sectors on a built-in SSD of an
HP-Probook laptop. As far as I r
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:03:52PM +, 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 front of the drive after
the EFI partiton.
I don't understand this step--why are you moving windows? L
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 04:06:17PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
To find out if the motherboard imposed any limitations, I checked the
manual. I found these tables, which I can't see the implications of:
M2D_32G M.2 connector
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 04:16:53PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
At least one does. I provided URL to the one I use, for some definition of
"automated", upthread @2024-12-05 12:24 (UTC-0500) in reply to your post 102
minutes earlier. :)
Automated means something along the lines of "make this mbr di
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:24:05PM +0100, Hans wrote:
What can I do? I would like to keep the existing partitions. However, I could
shrink them. At the moment, my drive looks at this:
primary partition Windows-boot ntfs
primary partition Windows ntfs
primary partition /boot /dev/sda3 ext4
exte
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 05:22:50PM +, Chris Green wrote:
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.
The M.2 dr
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 02:15:13PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
I have more than 40 PCs with well in excess of a dozen installed distros, each
on
a partition,
You have a unique set of requirements. Probably that has little
relevance to basically anyone else.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 12:24:36PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Clearly, because it's a seriously inept volume LABEL selection. Among the
following are some better, yet easy enough to remember and type, examples:
# egrep -i 'deb11|deb 11|seye|bull|debian11|debian 11' *L*txt | grep ├─ | wc -l
26
# eg
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)?
It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x drives (but
I'm sure there may be some cheaper drives with fewer). On the
motherboard side it'
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:26:18PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 05/12/2024 16:19, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect
sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted.
Therefore, enter the BIOS of the computer and let it running for c
On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 03:41:43PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote:
I would recommend changing from UUID to labels. Doing so, all you need
to worry is that the new partitions have the same labels as the old
ones.
https://wiki.debian.org/fstab#Labels
I personally prefer UUIDs because the odds of an
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:42:08AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
Is it different when you boot from an nvme drive? I have what I was told
was one and it appears as /dev/sdb or /dev/sda depending how the OS feels
that day. I didn't buy it new, it was given to me, so I may have been
misinformed. It'
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 07:32:03AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
While I am saying that my results with earlier Samsung have been less
than glorious. triple layer nand's turning into half capacity for
instance.
There's simply no real value in looking at historic bad models as a
guide to future p
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:53:54AM +, Daniel Harris wrote:
So its not actually a crash. On the 2 occasions it has happened, I have been
away from my computer for a while, and when I return and move the mouse, I can
see messages scrolling on a black screen (no X running). I can move to a new
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 05:11:47PM +, Daniel Harris wrote:
Thanks for all your replies.
As far as I can tell there are no errors reported using fsck or smartctl or
nvme
and the firmware is the correct and newest version so no problems there.
The following are the messages that appear but on
On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 01:41:18PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
You very likely would need to add drivers to your initrds first, else have to
rescue boot to rebuild after:
This is probably the result of setting MODULES=dep in
/etc/initramfs.conf. When changing hardware I'd recommend changing that
On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 04:27:37PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
The system I am running this on right now has only NVME only.
Note absence of nvme kernel modules and it boots just fine.
grep RETT /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
It has a stock kernel as I have n
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 04:35:13PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
My understanding is that a Linux file system is a hierachical
structure starting with the root directory (/) which organises the
directories and files. The files are stored on various devices which
have identities such as /dev/sdxn,
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 11:45:53AM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
So, why keep them separate?
Is this about some old Unix tradition?
an optimization somewhere somehow?
Because gnu policy is command behavior to not be dependent on the name
of the binary. Historically gnu utilities were often co
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:18:19AM +0200, Steve Keller wrote:
Is there a config option in libc, the host name resolver or somewhere
else to show hostnames in my own domain without the full domain name?
no
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
Michael Stone writes:
[1] insofar as you want to use dd at all ...
dd does conveniently provide progress and stats whereas cp does not.
stats which are misleading without the proper arguments, so it's a bit
of a wash. Th
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:15:50AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Actually, dd doesn't "do" file system cache (unless you are dd'ing
to a file, of course).
Incorrect; linux block device accesses cache unless specifically asked
not to. This is very easy to demonstrate: run something like "dd
i
On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 10:59:58AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
2. Using dd(1) with sync(1):
3. Using dd(1) without explicit synchronization:
These two tests are identical, as dd has exited (and all the performance
information has been printed) before sync runs. The flag you want[1] is
con
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 08:33:55PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
tomas@caliban:~$ time sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M ; time sync
dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device
15268+0 records in
15267+0 records out
16008609792 bytes (16 GB, 15 GiB) copied, 3614.25 s, 4.4 MB/
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 08:30:03PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 01:49:03PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 01:11:24PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> I have always treated the *nix equivalent to "eject", for the purpose of
> a USB flash
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 01:11:24PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
I have always treated the *nix equivalent to "eject", for the purpose of
a USB flash drive, as being 'umount /path/to/mount/location' - which, if
I'm not mistaken, does include an implicit sync operation.
Yes. Windows actually does h
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Hans wrote:
So your command line would read …
# … …
Cheers,
David.
I believe, instead of using dd for copying to the usb-stick, one might want to
use dcfldd for it.
dcfldd is en enhanced version of dd with hashsum check during copy. It was
created
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 09:58:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 09:59:47PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 14:09:45 (-0400), Lee wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 1:31 AM John Conover wrote:
> > >
> > > What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do
> > >
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 01:31:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
I plug in a USB stick (which will get completely overwritten),
check from the logs what its device name is (/dev/sdX),
then, as root, execute:
# dd bs=1M if=debian…amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX
# sync
and wait for the prompt af
ly to 8085. I've owned a variety of machines - early a PET and
a Kim. Still have a Kaypro 10 in a back room - haven't booted in
decades.
Thank you for the history lesson? I don't see how it impacts how you
should interact with people who tried to help you on a public forum.
On 08/
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 09:10:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 08/27/2024 08:14 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors support
current Debian release.
I have three machines whose processors are 64 bit capable.
Processors id
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
Except the original plan did not hold water, even at the time.
yes, that's why Reiser continued to add non-traditional filesystem
features right up to the end. and the more it diverged from a
traditional filesystem, the less like
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:46:45PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Off-topic really, but could you explain (or point to an explanation)
how applications could be redesigned for this 'new paradigm'. I ask
because I used reiserfs because of (a) journalling and (b) handling
many small files
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 10:37:12AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Yes, that was its main strength.
ReiserFS's main strength was that it reimagined how filesystems should
be used. It's main drawback was that applications would need to be
redesigned in order to take advantage of the new paradigm,
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:16:14PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
Reading the link that Walton sent, the only case where RTC clock in UTC is
recommended is in the linux/windows dual-boot case. There's no statement that
RTC should be set to UTC besides that. And they say right there why it isn't
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number
generator. Shred seems to have such.
You're better off with /dev/urandom, it's much easier to understand what
it's trying to do, vs the rather baroque logic in s
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 07:20:14PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I have 2 bare metal Debian 12.4 servers with fairly new Intel CPUs and plenty
of memory.
On both, dmesg continuously reports:
(...)
[Mon Jan 29 12:13:00 2024] cli64[1666090]: segfault at 0 ip 0040dd3b sp
7ffc2bfba630 er
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 01:50:38PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 07:25:13 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote:
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:32:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote:
> > The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt.
> >
> > Tried
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:31:05AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
This is one of those "the boat has already left the dock" situations.
If this were going to happen, it would have to have happened in the
early 1990s. There is no feasible way to make it happen now.
It's also a pointless endeavor,
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:44:35PM +, phoebus phoebus wrote:
A filter in between that in response to escape-code-1 starts sending data to
the serial port instead of the terminal application and switches back to the
terminal application on receiving of escape-code-2.
Development of a tra
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 03:25:51PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
manufacturers in different memory banks, but since it's always
possible to power down, replace or just remove memory, and power
up again,
Hmm... "always"? What about long running computations like that
simulation (or LLM training)
On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 06:37:08AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Doing so is called a defensive response, something to be expected in response to
(needless) offensive behavior. Browsers have default fonts selectable by users
for
good reason. Websites shouldn't be assuming user settings are wrong.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:49:02AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
To some extent, it will make it easier for packaging.
No, not at all--new packages have not had to worry about putting things
anywhere but /usr for a long time. Only old packages (for which the work
you described had been done years
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