Re: Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

Hi, David Christensen quoted Max Nikulin: > > UEFI almost certainly can boot from mbr (DOS) partition, otherwise it > > will be impossible to boot from USB pen drive. ... Yes it can boot from a partition marked in a MBR/DOS partition table which if formatted as FAT filesystem. But a USB stick cou

Re: Installing old Debian releases

Hi, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote: > For comparison, some research and portability tests I'd like > to install old releases of Debian, i.e. versions 8, 9, 10. > Are there archives and old repositories to install from? Old installation and Live ISOs are at https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/a

Re: libsmbios/smbios-utils removed from Debian?

Hi, Václav Ovsík wrote: > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1626825/removed-243-2-from-unstable/ > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libsmbios > [...] > I am surprised the smbios-utils is removed from unstable. https://tracker.debian.org/news/1626825/removed-243-2-from-unstable/ links to the discuss

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

Hi, Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > gpg: Firma valida da "Debian CD signing key " Jay ! \o/ > gpg: ATTENZIONE: questa chiave non è certificata con una firma fidata! > gpg:          Non ci sono indicazioni che la firma appartenga al proprietario. Regrettably gpg still assumes a web of trust to

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

Hi, Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > So now the authenticity check is complete and the authenticity is completely > sure? Yes. Until a quantum computer cracks the riddle how to generate an own key with the same fingerprint. (There are other risks, too, which are not prevented by signature with unc

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

Hi, i realize that i posted the content of the wrong SHA512SUMS file. The one i posted was from debian 12.7.0. Nevertheless the SHA512 sums which i posted earlier are of the files from 12.10.0 which i downloaded yesterday. Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > The content of these links, seen now, is

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

Hi, Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > 3D0BA303805111F651A88D96FC64867FFC678E43F3756F5F91B24A810D91015E459... > C:\Users\CP\Documents\Linux\Debian12.10.0\VersioneHTTP\SHA512SUMS.txt I get 36bf1f16bc4b9795122b7b3542a32f34c3be0ef294ff3a8bf43232df6554b69b569fe15d93c79ee48a47902e1a6ad87ca9966988cd4b

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

Hi, (Please Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org with your replies. I sent my mail with Cc; to you, because the X-Spam-Status: header of your list mail did not indicate that you are subscribed to the list.) Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > So... first step: > PS C:\Users\CP> gpg --keyserver hkps://ke

Re: valgrind (ioctl 0x5395 - CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN)

Hi, Tim Woodall wrote: > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h > [...] > ==4710== Warning: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x5395 with no size/direction > hints. ioctl CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN is something which software would call to determine the readable size of a storag

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

Hi, Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > Autenticity control (gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS.txt): > [...] > gpg:                utilizzando la chiave RSA > DF9B9C49EAA9298432589D76DA87E80D6294BE9B > gpg: Firma BAD da "Debian CD signing key " I assume that "Firma BAD" means bad signature. I

Re: xorriso dry-run.

Hi, > A xorriso dry-run analogous to rsync -n? You could use command -rollback_end to refrain from writing: xorriso ...the.desired.commands... -rollback_end This will perform the commands but then just end the program run instead of writing the result and thus reading all the content of the f

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > As somebody testing images when point releases are made, I > would suggest against using larger images than the DLBD - there is the > likelihood of bit errors to ruin your image when writing many GB There is a file md5sum.txt in the ISOs to check the transport integ

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hi, BALDO wrote: > We work with BD images, but is it > possible to merge these images and put them on an external m.2? Aha. Once in a year this question pops up. Three years ago i invested some shell programming effort and tested it with amd64 ISOs. See: https://wiki.debian.org/MergeDebianIsos

Re: libsmbios/smbios-utils removed from Debian?

Hi, Václav Ovsík wrote: > I hope some alternative for friendly displaying the information will > appear soon. Well, firstly this would need one of more developers for the upstream project, who would just need to be sufficiently skilled programmers. Secondly this project would need to find a Debia

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

Hi, Lee wrote: > Am I doing something wrong or is idle-python3.11 really missing from > the repository? The whole python3.11 is out of work. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python3.11 says: "package is gone" and "There are 5 open security issues in sid." "There are 2 open security issues

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

Hi, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I have a 16TB drive that is working properly. I reformatted the drive to the > ext4 file system with default settings and it works great. Try to reformat > the drive especially if the current format is FAT. Several of the shown inquiry methods did not refer to f

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

Hi, Alex King wrote: > I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on > it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. > root@fj2:/home/installer# smartctl -i /dev/sdb > [...] > User Capacity:    8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB] > Sector Size

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

Hi, correction of the usual copy+paste error: I wrote: > 8001563222016 / 512 / 4294967296 = 7.277379356324673 The result stems from a different calculation with 2 exp 31. With 2 exp 32 it is 3.638689678162337 . Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

Hi, Miriami wrote: > About the projects I've found - I searched with > three terms on GitHub - 'sqlite', 'fs' and > 'fuse'. It is surprisingly large number of > projects come up with the same idea of using > SQLite as a backing file system storage. I remeber that filesystems in general have been

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

Hi, Miriami wrote: > > I would like the fuse filesystem to automatically grow as new files > > are added in, just like how a SQLite database would grow as new > > records being inserted. Tim Woodall wrote: > The nearest I can think of is growisofs. That's mainly a burn program for optical media

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

Hi, Dan Purgert wrote: > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > about the lack of media. Not 100% sure if it's a generic problem, or > just my crappy USB CD drive :) It's a Linux kernel prob

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

Hi, William Torrez Corea wrote: > eject: device name is `/dev/sr0' > ... > eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded > > I can't eject the optical drive That was with: eject -v /dev/sr0 ? What do you get from this program run xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -eject all > i try mount the device: > sudo

Re: ISO 9660 (version Joliet Extension)

Hi, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > I am using the following image: > > MS DOS 6.22 Bootable iso > > https://archive.org/details/ms-dos-6.22_dvd Charles Curley quoted from there: > "If you need to burn it to a portable storage device, like USBs or >dvd disks, unfortunately it will not work.

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

Hi, i wrote: > > Nearly half a life ago, my own endeavor with ISO 9660 and optical media > > began with creating a tool which does this splitting automatically: > > > >   http://scdbackup.webframe.org/main_eng.html > >   http://scdbackup.webframe.org/examples.html Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > Th

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

Hi, Bob McGowan wrote: > The -options_from_file is > exactly what I was needing and works perfectly. Congrats. I'm glad that UDF was not a hard requirement. > Just one last question. How do you pronounce "xorriso"? :) Rarely. :)) Normally i only write about it. But i think of it with german p

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

Hi, Bob McGowan wrote: > One question, what I would like to see is a duplicated directory/file > hierachy on the destination. I have lists of file names in groups just > short of 25G, but I can't find an easy way to send the file names to > any of the programs and have them maintain the hierarch

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

Hi, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > just use xfburn (GUI). Xfburn does indeed Blu-ray by help of libburn. But it does no UDF, because it uses libisofs for filesystem production. Insofar the result is supposed to be similar to the results of the xorriso runs which i proposed, but without MD5 checksums i

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

Hi, Bob McGowan wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to use my BD disc writer to create > backups of files. I do this by Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 on BD-R and BD-RE media, following this example from the man page of xorriso: xorriso \ -abort_on FATAL \ -for_backup -disk_dev_i

Re: keyboard repeat

Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: > > I handle this kind of thing with the kbdrate program, which > > is in the Debian package named 'kbd'. Sid: /usr/sbin/kbdrate https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/kbd/filelist Bookworm: /sbin/kbdrate https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/kbd/filelist Th

Re: Mass storage sizes

Hi, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > It takes 8 bits to make one byte, should we change that to 10 too  We once had the other way round. Four bits making one decimal digit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal The elders even had opinions whether Gray was to prefer over plain bi

Re: Mass storage sizes

Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > > into "computer units" is ~16.37 * 1024^4 bytes. Dan Purgert wrote: > I thought the variance from TB -> TiB was 10%; or have > I gotten it backwards? Merchants insist on decimal only because the

Re: debian kernel compiler

Hi, > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 20:12:09 +0100, Istvan Toth wrote: > > I am attaching the nvidia make.log.I made the fah79 image deb package > > myself. It also included - linux-headers-6.1.119-fah79_6.1.119-1_amd64.deb Greg Wooledge wrote: > The log is quite large. I'm surprised the mailing list

Re: debian kernel compiler

Hi, Istvan Toth wrote: > when installing > the image the build module does not run during the short-term (30-40 minute) > compiler runtime (I attach it). > [...] > ~/kernel$ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-6.1.119-fah79_6.1.119-1_amd64.deb I might have misunderstood your problem description. I thought t

Re: debian kernel compiler

Hi, Istvan Toth wrote: > Most > times, about 100 times so far, the compiler ran at 40 minutes, but then it > does not compile the nvidia-current 183.216.01 or the 535.183.01 module. > Because of this, there will be no /boot/initrd.img file, the boot will not > start. This would match a prematurel

Re: dvd+rw burner

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > It's an older disk, 2.4 speed. I know these only from hearsay. My DVD+RW are all 4x. Oldest from 2006. Some of them are still in regular use here. > dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=2295104 | \ >xorriso -as cdrecord -v -nopad dev=/dev/sr1 -eject - > ... > Writing to '

Re: dvd+rw burner

Hi, Gene heskett wrote: > on that same staples dvd+rw disk: > xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev="$drive" fs=16m -eject "$image" 2>&1 | tee -i > /tmp/xorriso.log > apparently xorriso, which I had to install, completed normally but did take > a long time closing, I'll send the log by PM Summarizing the

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

Hi, 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/sdj1" is surplus. Normally, the ISO image has to be copied

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

Hi, i proposed for booting from the now reluctant USB stick: > > grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet > > grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz > > grub> boot Roger Price wrote: > I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux' not found Hm. The internet shows such star

Re: dvd+rw burner

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, I wrote: > > Sounds like > >https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263 > > Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath > > a text field which tells the medium type (in

Re: dvd+rw burner

Hi, Hans wrote: > As far as I know, brasero and k3b relyon the same libs. Brasero depends on https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbrasero-media3-1 which does ISO 9660 production by libisofs and burning by libburn. Xfburn uses the same libraries for the same purposes. It recommends https://packa

Re: dvd+rw burner

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? I use my own program xorriso, mostly in scripts as the list of arguments can become lengthy. If you describe what you want to do then i could describe what i would do. > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, So

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

Hi, Roger Price wrote: > Device hd0: Filesystem type ISO9660 - Label 'Debian 12.7.0 amd64 n' > [...] > So it looks as if hd0 is the installation USB stick. Indeed (unless you have a hard disk with an ISO 9660 filesystem around the disk's partitions). > I don't understand why the USB stick no

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Have you ever seen a cardox compressor? No. I never compressed helium to ~500 bar pressure. Did you have a chance to check the temperature at the pressured outlet ? > This one had intercoolers bigger > than the cylinders. Fitst cylinder was around a cubic foot per str

Re: Boot from USB?

Hi, 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. > [...] > 1. Is this is normal standard behaviour and can this be confirmed? This depends on the settings of your computers firmware (Le

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > Merry Christmas everyone! We've obviously all been bad children. Yay ! Lumps of coal for everyone ! Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Our std night shift procedure was to pump the big tank down to under 2 or 3 > psi, which put the bottles up around 7400 to 7800 psi at midnight. The > morning shift at 8AM had 5200 psi to play with till the truck got there.  > Around a 2500 diff.  Where did the rest of it

Re: Jigdo images of Debian 3.1_r8

Hi, > Everything is fine EXCEPT three files in debian-31r8-source-2.iso: > pool/main/z/zope-quotafolder/zope-quotafolder_0.1.1.orig.tar.gz > pool/main/s/sysvbanner/sysvbanner_1.0.orig.tar.gz > pool/main/c/cl-md5/cl-md5_1.8.5.orig.tar.gz "zope-quotafolder_0.1.1" is a known offender in the archives

Re: disk image

Hi, 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. This is a wide topic.

Re: Contributing back: Using grub2 to boot CD-ROM images

Hi, > I've developed a script and suitable grub stanzas to let the user > install several CD-ROM images on a hard drive, and boot from the > CD-ROMs without extracting the kernel or initrd. > ... > I think this might make a useful how-to, possibly for the Debian wiki. > Any thoughts on where to co

Re: How do I submit a game to a distribution?

Hi, Steven Peckham wrote: > I wrote an Adventure game [...] I expect to [...] give it a GPL3 > license. This will make it legally suitable for Debian GNU/Linux distro. > I would like to figure that out, and if so, offer it to one or more > distribution(s). Debian has a procedure for this: Requ

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

Hi, Chris Green wrote: > > (proc) (memdisk) (lvm/q957--vg-swap_1) (lvm/q957--vg-root) (hd0) > > (hd0,apple2) (hd0,apple1) (hd0,msdos2) (hd1) (hd1,gpt1) (hd2) > > (hd2,msdos5) (hd2,msdos1) David Wright wrote: > So hd0 is the USB stick. Looks like that. Apple Partition Map is not much in use on a

Re: X server blocked by SecureBoot

Hi, Christian wrote: > So far I couldn't see anything in my > cmdline which is kernel_lockdown related. If this means that you already looked into /proc/cmdline then i am out of ideas why the kernel log reported > > [   47.042454] Lockdown: Xorg: raw io port access is restricted; see man > >

Re: X server blocked by SecureBoot

Hi, Christian wrote: > [   47.042454] Lockdown: Xorg: raw io port access is restricted; see man > kernel_lockdown.7 > I think it's still SecureBoot, but what is it this time? Can anyone help At least the above log snippet seems to be related to SecureBoot. In https://manpages.debian.org/bookwo

Re: Reg. Debian OS hardware certification for Servers.

Hi, > Please support us and guide and share the process to enroll in the hardware > certification program. Well, we are the user community, not the officials. So inofficially: There seems to be no official certification process but only plans to establish some https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

Hi, Max Mikulin wrote: > Oct 09 09:02:25 hp kernel: usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using > xhci_hcd > Oct 09 09:02:25 hp kernel: usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=8564, > idProduct=1000, bcdDevice=11.00 > ... > Oct 09 09:02:25 hp kernel: scsi host4: usb-storage 3-3:1.0 > Oct 0

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic_from_China_IPs

Hi, can we please have a call to order ? David wrote: > In fact, the only thing you have shown here is the effect American > control over German media has managed to turn Germany into the shithole > it currently finds itself in. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Just booting grub from internal drive in the case of a USB3 port does not > cause switch from Transcend to SMI for Linux kernel. Can you provoke the transition while this Linux kernel is running ? If so: what does the kernel log say about that point in time ? > I am cur

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Usually the device as recognized as (ignore discrepancy in bus and port > numbers, they are from notes taken at different moments on 2 laptops) > ... > |__ Port 2: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M > ID 8564:1000 Transcend Information,

Re: Request for Clarification on Debian Installation Modes

Hi, deb...@nexgntech.com wrote: > I encountered four different modes of installation for Debian, and I would > appreciate it if someone could explain the differences between these modes > in detail. Specifically, I would like to understand what each mode includes > initially and what additional pa

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

Hi, John Cassidy wrote: > > > Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line > > > 148. i wrote: > > system('systemctl', '--quiet', @instance_args, $action, @start_units) == > > 0 or die("Could not execute systemctl: $!"); > > https://sources.debian.org/src/init-system-helpe

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

Hi, John Cassidy wrote: > > Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 148. Greg Wooledge wrote: > That's a very strange and specific error message. Is your systemctl > command missing, or has incorrect permissions or something? I rather guess that it is due to the perl t

Re: need jigdo help

Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Run jigdo-lite in a terminal as root Why as root ? I never had to be root when i used it. (Actually Gene Heskett was not too wrong when using jigdo-file, because jigdo-lite itself uses jigdo-file at multiple occasions. https://sources.debian.org/src/jigdo/0.8.2-

Re: need jigdo help

Hi, I always used jigdo-lite (and described it at: https://wiki.debian.org/JigdoOnLive#Download_one_or_more_Jigdo_ISOs ) jigdo-lite is the official advise by Debian: https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#how Gene Heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/linuxcnc_trixie_install$ jigdo-file mi > --templa

Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot

Hi, Felix Miata wrote: > Which distros ship rEFInd? It's not among packages monitored by distrowatch. It seems that Debian does since a while: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/refind The tracker page points by its "homepage" link to https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ which shows the name "rEFIn

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, i wrote: > > I let xorriso-dd-target use > >bs=1M oflag=dsync Max Nikulin wrote: > May too small bs value cause write multiplication if internal flash erasure > block size is much larger? [...] My concern is wearing, Is there evidence that sync size a smaller than such an internal size i

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This is exactly why I'm always trying to "sell" the "oflag=sync" option of > dd. You are going to write each block exactly once, then plop the medium > out. So whithout, it'll take you 10 sec, with it'll take you as much. But > it's more transparent with, because with

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Franco Martelli wrote: > I was testing the procedure in a virtual machine, the first "gpg --keyserver > keyring.debian.org ..." command fails because I hadn't imported the public > keys. Hm. I expected that --keyserver keyring.debian.org would avoid the need for importing keys to the local

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

bin/sh # -# check_debian_iso, copyright 2011 Thomas Schmitt +# check_debian_iso, copyright 2011,2024 Thomas Schmitt # License: GPLv2 or later # Tested on: Little-endian GNU/Linux with bash #Little-endian FreeBSD-8 with sh and "md5 -q" @@ -145,12 +145,12 @@ fi # The two

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Do you mean something like > ? > * Item > {{{ > code > }}} I tried "*" for bullet list. But it works only for a single line, not for a multi-line text paragraph as on https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify I wr

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, due to popular resistence i created a new wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/VerifyISOImage with the content which i would propose to https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify Regrettably i was unable to mimick the bullet list paragraphs of the FAQ, so that i had to change the text for a more

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Franco Martelli wrote: > What you wrote in that section it's so searched/wanted by newcomers that > it's a pity that it's published as a section into "XorrisoDdTarget". Actually it is not the first time that i felt the urge to describe the SHA and PGP verification: https://wiki.debian.org/

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Hans wrote: > What I meant is more a desciption, > why xorriso-dd-target is better than dd or dcfldd. xorriso-dd-target is effectively a frontend to lsblk, umount, and dd. Insofar i deem dd to be sufficient but not necessarily superior to other programs which can copy data to a USB stick or m

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Hans wrote: > Maybe you might want to add a suggestion for readers, which might be the > best way, to get an ISO to an usb-stick? That's the actual topic of that wiki page. Just scroll up and read it from start. > The debian manual suggests using the "dd" command and claims, not to use > Ru

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, i added a new section https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget#How_to_verify_the_result instead of a mere link because i deem the Debian instructions too scattered for being suitable for already puzzled and stressed users. I would appreciate checkreading of this new section by interested bys

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, i wrote about https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CreateUSBMedia : > - It does not mention that superuser powers are needed for copying > to /dev/sdX and that a wrong substitute for X can spoil a big > spinning disk if present. I did not pay enough attention to the preamble, which war

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, i wrote: > >https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget Max Nikulin wrote: > Is there a reason why the page is not cross-linked with > ? After skimming over that page, i see problems: - It links to https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-i

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Lee wrote: > Oops.. I wrote to the stick using the Cygwin cp on an MS-Windows > machine, so I'm guessing the damage was done even before ejecting the > stick. MS-Windows can eject a stick ? xorriso silently fails to do so: xorriso -outdev stdio:/dev/sdc -eject out (Sorry i could not refr

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Thomas, are you intentionally linking raw man page instead of a > formatted > one [[DebianMan:xorriso-dd-target|xorriso-dd-target(1)]]? Once it was intentional, when the package was only in Debian Testing and no Debian online man page existed. Now i changed it to your lin

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, Lee wrote: > [...] I'd spin my wheels trying to > figure out what's wrong and not too much later say f*kkit and boot off > my just written USB drive. > [...] > $ check_debian_iso SHA512SUMS debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdb > ... > 661651456 bytes (662 MB, 631 MiB) copied, 7.11874 s, 92

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, David Wright wrote: > > The disadvantage of this method is how to check the USB has a good copy. Gene Heskett wrote: > Why should that be difficult? Just do a sha### sum on the device itself. The difficulty is that media often are willing to hand out more bytes than were written when copying

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

Hi, John Conover wrote: > What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do with an .iso? > Can it be coverted to a USB. How? I had some difficulties to parse these questions. Since others read them as question how to make a bootable USB stick from a netinst ISO image, i add my two cents: https://

Rufus, was: [HP][Debian Strixie] Unable to install Debian with GUI interface

Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I have used Rufus previously and note Pete Batard's take on this. > Nonetheless, DD mode is *exactly* what you need to make Rufus write > the Debian iso well as far as I understand it. The Debian CD FAQ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb could need a tangibl

Re: [HP][Debian Strixie] Unable to install Debian with GUI interface

Hi, Charles Curley wrote: > I understand that rufus is a CD/DVD burner program for Windows. No it is an image copier for hard-disk-like devices, typically USB sticks. https://rufus.ie/en/ It usually unpacks the ISO to a FAT fileystem and installs or modifies the boot loader of the stick so tha

Re: Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source

Hi, i wrote: > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/11.10.0/amd64/jigdo-16G/ > Whatever, there is no counterpart for this image in > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/11.10.0/source/ > This shortcomming might be worth complaining at the debian-cd mailing > list It

Re: Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source

Hi, John Conover wrote: > Is Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source available? I am not aware that there was a 32 GB ISO of Debian 11 for amd64. Maybe you mean the 16 GB ISO ? https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/11.10.0/amd64/jigdo-16G/ Whatever, there is no counterpart for thi

Re: need help killing screen blanker

Hi, gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, > screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in If everything else fails: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platf

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: > (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb proposes https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ Another possibility is a tool named Rufus. I would use its "dd" mode rather than the other mode which unpack

Re: reporting an issue in debian based OS

Hi, i am Cc-ing you, because you seem not to be subscribed to debian-user. Maybe replies by others show up as "Follow-Ups" of your message at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/08/msg00708.html b.mc6 wrote: > There seems to be some issues with the 'ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2' and > some

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

Hi, i wrote: > Is your machine really so old that it won't run a 64-bit Debian ? > In your situation i would just try one from: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/ I gave the wrong link. Sorry. (The above is for BitTorrent download). Correct for direct download

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

Hi, James Freer wrote: > > For a live DVD install as i want to check the hardware is okay i tried > > using debian-12.5-i386-DVD-1.iso. This i presume would just spin up > > but it has asked for partitioning etc > Seems odd to ask for partitioning on a liveDVD. debian-12.5-i386-DVD-1.iso. is an

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

Hi, i think i found documentation about effective storage of very small files in ext4: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#Inline_Data https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197633/how-to-use-the-new-ext4-inline-data-feature-storing-data-directly-in-the-inode https://m

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

Hi, Wesley wrote: > In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small > files). Yes, that was its main strength. Possibly ext4 can economize on very small files, too. man 1 chattr mentions: "A file with the 'N' attribute set indicates that the file has data stored

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

Hi, Karen Lewellen wrote: > As a side note..I got the message, assuming you mean the one indicating it > was from new service with account statement or some such. Yes. The message which was bounced by GMX is in the list archive as https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/08/msg00366.html Ob

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

Hi, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > You don't need to run a mailserver to do something similar. I simply > told my ISP (Zen) not to filter spam out of my mail. Normally GMX puts spam into a separate box where i can unjail it if i deem it not guilty. (Happens often enough.) > * they do actua

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

Hi, i wrote: > > debian-user is the only mailing list where i ever > > witnessed that a troll exploited the unscubscription habits to > > throw out multiple users. Andy Smith wrote: > I was here when those events occurred and that is not what happened. > [...] > It was just a bug in Debian's list

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > What you have interpreted as "a threat" was simply a procedural > warning that if your address continues to be undeliverable then you > will be automatically unsubscribed. It is a threat, because debian-user is the only mailing list where i ever witnessed that a troll expl

Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

Hi, i just received a message from the list server that my mail provider GMX has rejected a spam message which the Debian list allowed to pass by a tiny not-spam margin. From this quite unsuspicious situation the automat of Debian Listmaster Team derived the threat to unsubscribe me. I see the po

Re: Can a standard USB have sub directives?

Hi, John Conover wrote: > > I was doing some stress testing, and some sub directives had very long > > write latency's. (All less than 4GB.) Charles Curley wrote: > I doubt the problem is subdirectories. More likely something totally > extraneous to your tests was causing problems. I would elimin

Re: Increasing "time" command precision

Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > * TIMEFORMAT=... time foo will invoke /usr/bin/time, but > > >TIMEFORMAT=... eval time foo will use the builtin. I wrote: > > I wonder about the formal reason for this. > There are some mysteries in bash that I'm content simply to write off as > "here b

Re: Increasing "time" command precision

Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > * TIMEFORMAT=... time foo will invoke /usr/bin/time, but >TIMEFORMAT=... eval time foo will use the builtin. I wonder about the formal reason for this. Is it because "time" is not listed in the man page under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS but mentioned as "reserve

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