Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-27 Thread peter
From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:31:25 +0200 > Where did you find that path? From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:49:02 +0200 > Or did you mean https://packages.debian.org/buster/net/ > (the trailing '/' matters)? Sorry to say, I haven't been able to substantiate my origi

Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 nov 20, 07:10:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > On Mi, 04 nov 20, 21:45:16, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > According to packages.debian.org/buster/all/net, iw is not > > available in the suite. > > From: Andrei POPESCU > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:31:25 +0200 > > Where did you find that path?

Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-15 Thread peter
On Mi, 04 nov 20, 21:45:16, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > According to packages.debian.org/buster/all/net, iw is not > available in the suite. From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:31:25 +0200 > Where did you find that path? > > Or did you mean https://packages.debian.org/buster/net/ > (th

Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-05 Thread peter
Andrei wrote: Where did you find that path? When the system is working again I might be able to answer. ... P.

Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 nov 20, 21:45:16, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > According to packages.debian.org/buster/all/net, iw is not > available in the suite. Where did you find that path? Or did you mean https://packages.debian.org/buster/net/ (the trailing '/' matters)? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.de

Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-05 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 21:45 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: [...] > https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi instructs "For basic command > line usage: > 1. iw ... > 2. wireless-tools ... > > According to packages.debian.org/buster/all/net, iw is not > available in the suite. That website appears a little br

Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-04 Thread peter
Hello again, Apologies for not setting the references field while composing a reply with the roundcube mailer. Reco replied, sha1sum ... sha256sum ... Appears the only difficulty was a 9 deb file in the 10 system. Retrieved and installed the right firmware-ath9k-htc from debian.org. https://

Re: Establishing WiFi on a freshly installed base system.

2020-11-04 Thread Reco
On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:22:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:28:21PM -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > dpkg -i firm* > > gives only this. > > dpkg-deb: error: 'firmware-ath9k-htc-1.4.0-97-g75b3e59+dfsg-3_all.deb' is > > not a debian format archive > > dpkg: error processing

Re: Establishing WiFi on a freshly installed base system.

2020-11-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:28:21PM -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > dpkg -i firm* > gives only this. > dpkg-deb: error: 'firmware-ath9k-htc-1.4.0-97-g75b3e59+dfsg-3_all.deb' is not > a debian format archive > dpkg: error processing archive ... > > The adapter worked until the previo

Establishing WiFi on a freshly installed base system.

2020-11-04 Thread peter
An elementary Buster was installed on a SATA drive. The target machine boots from that. The current objective is to establish a 'net connection using a TP-Link TL-WN722N USB adapter. firmware-ath9k-htc-1.4.0-97-g75b3e59+dfsg-3_all.deb was retrieved from http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/pool/main/o

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread John L. Ries
6 21:36:45 From: Kynn Jones To: Debian User Subject: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home? My system is badly damaged, and it looks like the only way to fix it is to do a full re-install. I figure I will have to back everything up to an external drive, re

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Kynn Jones: > > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. If there is anything on your hard disk worth keeping that you haven't backed up at least weekly then you should start worrying about that now. Ha

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread tomas
and reformatting the hard disk. > > Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a > > live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouched? (I > > should mention that the hard disk in question is just one big > > partition, including /h

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 22/02/16 20:10, Dalios wrote: First of all you would have to move your /home to a new partition (to the same disk or another) and you would need to start from a Live CD/USB in order to do this step. Or move /home from a terminal as root. But if you have to create a new partition you might

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread arian
Just to make sure, your filesystem is OK, right? > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. > Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a > live CD, an

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread Dalios
; > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. > Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a > live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouche

Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-21 Thread Kynn Jones
would not require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouched? (I should mention that the hard disk in question is just one big partition, including /home

Re: Debian base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Herb Miller Jr. wrote: > Where can I find a snapshot of the Debian base system to facilitate > deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Normally you would make your own using debootstrap or cdebootstrap. $ sudo apt-get install debootstrap $ sudo debootstrap sque

Re: Debian base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-11 18:35 +0200, Herb Miller Jr. wrote: > Where can I find a snapshot of the Debian base system to facilitate > deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Yes. Do you want to have a current snapshot (i.e. what's in the base system today) or a specifi

Re: Debian base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article you write: >Where can I find a snapshot of the Debian base system to facilitate >deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? We don't do things that way any more. Debootstrap is the tool you want to use - it will create the contents of the chr

Debian base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Herb Miller Jr.
Where can I find a snapshot of the Debian base system to facilitate deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Thank you, Herb

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 14 dec 10, 06:51:53, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > The question is certainly in the installer, I checked the translation > > files (.po), but it is probably shown only on expert installs. > > Ok, I tried several installations, but the question about utc settings is

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Hello, shawn wilson wrote: > Gero wrote: > > What I need most, is conversion between dec/hex/oct/binary - and that > > conversion is very handy with KCalc. > > ... you mean like bc's hex(), oct(), dec(), bin() functions? I'm sorry. As I'm used to use vim and terminals - I have to confess, that

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I would even settle for a Linux version if properly packaged for Debian. > ... Given the reasonable one-time > licence fee I would even consider buying it! Agree! If I remember well, tc is able to have several directory shortcuts in one panel too. So yes - would b

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Andrei Popescu wrote: > The question is certainly in the installer, I checked the translation > files (.po), but it is probably shown only on expert installs. Ok, I tried several installations, but the question about utc settings is not there. Not on normal installation, neither on expert

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Hello, John Hasler wrote: > Geronimo writes: > > No, I refer to the kde settings dialog, where all desktop-settings can > > be changed. The same configuration page is accessible from the clock > > in the destop-bar. > > These are per-user settings, then? No - not at all. To change time-settin

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 13:20:41, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Are you sure it isn't just setting the user's TZ variable? IMHO the > > correct default for that should be null so that system time gets used. > > Andrei Popescu writes: > > I don't agree. The default should be the default time zone f

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Are you sure it isn't just setting the user's TZ variable? IMHO the > correct default for that should be null so that system time gets used. Andrei Popescu writes: > I don't agree. The default should be the default time zone for the > system (which is usually based on the country/area

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Geronimo writes: > ...where after a gnome installation utc is set to true and after a kde > installation utc is set to false. IMHO neither package should touch /etc/default/rcS. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 11:35:41, John Hasler wrote: > Geronimo writes: > > No, I refer to the kde settings dialog, where all desktop-settings can > > be changed. The same configuration page is accessible from the clock > > in the destop-bar. > > These are per-user settings, then? Such a thing certainl

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Geronimo writes: > No, I refer to the kde settings dialog, where all desktop-settings can > be changed. The same configuration page is accessible from the clock > in the destop-bar. These are per-user settings, then? Such a thing certainly should not be touching the system configuration. Are you

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 18:14:48, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 13. 12. 2010 17:56:30 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): > >Every time I experimented with two-pane file managers I kept > >coming back > >to Tux Commander (package tuxcmd). While it does have it's quirks > >it is > >closest to the habits I acquired on

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread shawn wilson
> @Carl Johnson: >> I agree, but you might want to look into qalculate as a substitute. > > Ok, that's a really big calculator. But its no substitute for me. > What I need most, is conversion between dec/hex/oct/binary - and that > conversion is very handy with KCalc. > ... you mean like bc's hex()

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2010, 17:56:30 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > Every time I experimented with two-pane file managers I kept coming ... Two-panel ;> I usually have about 20 panels (10 each side) and the most attractive feature: every action works without touching the mouse - I'm very keyboard

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 12. 2010 17:56:30 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): Every time I experimented with two-pane file managers I kept coming back to Tux Commander (package tuxcmd). While it does have it's quirks it is closest to the habits I acquired on Windows using Windows/Total Commander. Oh, the woes o

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Geronimo writes: > Hi, > >> While I'm not familiar with Kalk > Sorry, was my typo - I meant KCalc > > The gnome calculator is years away to be that usable. I agree, but you might want to look into qalculate as a substitute. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 17:51:17 Andrei Popescu wrote: > Do you mean the mini-config done by KDE3 at first start? ... Or do you mean > the old base-config program, back when the installation was done in two > steps (sarge was the last release to use this IIRC)? No, I refer to the kde settings dia

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:47:31, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 13. 12. 2010 16:34:58 je Geronimo napisal(a): > > >But i.e. I can't live without krusader, which is heavily bound to kde > >internals. Or look at Kalk - there's no serious alternative on > >gnome systems. > > While I'm not familiar with Kalk, I w

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 17:17:51, Geronimo wrote: > On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 16:51:02 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:13:47, Geronimo wrote: > > > > AFAIK this is only done when Windows is detected on that machine. > > > > > > Ok, that sounds reasonable. > > > > > > But then I miss an op

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 16:51:02 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:13:47, Geronimo wrote: > > > AFAIK this is only done when Windows is detected on that machine. > > > > Ok, that sounds reasonable. > > > > But then I miss an option, where I can overwrite that. > > For the installer?

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Hi, > While I'm not familiar with Kalk Sorry, was my typo - I meant KCalc The gnome calculator is years away to be that usable. > I've since settled for gnome-commander because it's a > native Gnome app. I tried that commander, but it's an eternity away from krusader. So I have to live with sm

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:13:47, Geronimo wrote: > > AFAIK this is only done when Windows is detected on that machine. > > Ok, that sounds reasonable. > > But then I miss an option, where I can overwrite that. For the installer? > I always install my machines using UTC - and I was quite off socks

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 12. 2010 16:34:58 je Geronimo napisal(a): But i.e. I can't live without krusader, which is heavily bound to kde internals. Or look at Kalk - there's no serious alternative on gnome systems. While I'm not familiar with Kalk, I was a *huge* fan of Krusader too, at the time. I've sin

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 16:18:08 Klistvud wrote: > On the other hand, I'm thankful to KDE 4, because it prompted me to > (re)discover and adopt Gnome. ROFL Yes, in this sense I say thank you too :) I'm now using gnome for about half a year and it is quite attractive. Lean, reasonable menues and

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 12. 2010 07:27:07 je Geronimo napisal(a): The point is - I was a very emotional fan of kde in days before kde 4 - but now I hate kde. I can certainly relate to that, as can many other former KDE users. On the other hand, I'm thankful to KDE 4, because it prompted me to (re)dis

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 16:00:20 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 13 dec 10, 15:00:16, Geronimo wrote: > > The key is /etc/default/rcS - where after a gnome installation utc is set > > to true and after a kde installation utc is set to false. > > > > May be this is an issue for the installer-crew.

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 15:00:16, Geronimo wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 09:26:50 shawn wilson wrote: > > ... easiest thing (since it's 03:23 here and i know off hand where to look) > > is to 'cat /etc/timezone' > > that file isn't the key and was the same on both systems. > Then I looked

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Geronimo
Hi, On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 09:26:50 shawn wilson wrote: > ... easiest thing (since it's 03:23 here and i know off hand where to look) > is to 'cat /etc/timezone' that file isn't the key and was the same on both systems. Then I looked at /etc/adjtime and that told me the difference. The key is

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Doug
On 12/13/2010 03:26 AM, shawn wilson wrote: Additionally: I need some time to enter BIOS and reorder boot sequence of harddrives - so I suspect, that it's not a question of time skew but may be wrong handling of hwclock - as the kde-system comes up with a wrong time (wrong by one hour - not a few

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread shawn wilson
> Additionally: I need some time to enter BIOS and reorder boot sequence of > harddrives - so I suspect, that it's not a question of time skew but may be > wrong handling of hwclock - as the kde-system comes up with a wrong time > (wrong by one hour - not a few seconds). > > Is it possible, that kd

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-12 Thread Geronimo
Hello, On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:58:56, shawn wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Geronimo wrote: > first, some side comments that aren't going to answer your questions: > why not use a vm? I already use virtualbox for testing. Few days after squeeze freeze I had a crash of my s

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-12 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > I have two separate installations of debian squeeze, each on a different > harddisk. More by accident, than by intention it happens, that each > installation has its own grub entry in the mbr of its harddisk. > Both systems use ext3 an

weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-12 Thread Geronimo
Hello, I have two separate installations of debian squeeze, each on a different harddisk. More by accident, than by intention it happens, that each installation has its own grub entry in the mbr of its harddisk. Both systems use ext3 and grub2 and hwclock runs at UTC. 1. On both installtions i

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-23 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 03:29:05 Ron Johnson wrote: > Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a ".txt" so > that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file, instead of > base64 encoded application/octet-stream. > > (Iceweasel/Thunderbird seems to "peek" into it, probably

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: >> Attached for you convenience! >> sourced from: Debian Lenny > > Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a ".txt" so > that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file,

RE: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:05 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: > > Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > > > > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --pu

Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > > print $1}' < debian-

RE: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > > print $1}' < debian-5.04-base-selections | sort) <(dpkg > > >

Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > print $1}' < debian-5.04-base-selections | sort) <(dpkg --get-selections | > > > awk '{if ($2=="install") print $1}' |

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,19.Mar.10, 17:28:20, Greg Madden wrote: > I was refering to what Debian calls a 'base' intall and 'standard'. When you > install Debian (net install) the base system is installed, then a reboot is > done > to install any 'tasksel' (gnome t

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-20 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010/3/20 Stefan Monnier > > I suppose I can classify this as an experiment case, whereas I will > > likely later on try out various (which may include Apache, Samba, > > whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan > > to keep better track of what I have installed so tha

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I suppose I can classify this as an experiment case, whereas I will > likely later on try out various (which may include Apache, Samba, > whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan > to keep better track of what I have installed so that the packages can > be purged easi

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:06:02 -0500 wrote: > On 2010-03-19 21:26, Mike Viau wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 wrote: > [snip] > >> > >> I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time: > >> COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \ > >> cut -c4-44 > installed.packages.`date +"%Y%M

RE: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
to purge or remove all the packages that were > > > > installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal > > > > system installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a > > > > Debian system to a base system" but it seems like the topic

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-19 21:26, Mike Viau wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 wrote: [snip] I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time: COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \ cut -c4-44 > installed.packages.`date +"%Y%M%d-%H%m"` Since that's obviously a pain to write, put it in an a

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Bird
system after the initial (bare bone) minimal > > > system installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a > > > Debian system to a base system" but it seems like the topic of interest > > > was to reduce the memory consumption of the installed system, whi

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:28:20 -0900 wrote: > > On Friday 19 March 2010 03:52:44 pm Mike Viau wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:44 -0300 wrote: > > >Ok the bigger problem you should have is "what is a base system" > > > > I agree, what a base system

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 19 March 2010 03:52:44 pm Mike Viau wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:44 -0300 wrote: > >Ok the bigger problem you should have is "what is a base system" > > I agree, what a base system means can be different among users. I was refering to what Debian

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 wrote: > > >> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:54 -0900 wrote: > >> > >> Would be nice to have a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used > >> aptitude > >> (dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not that > >> many > >> package

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a Debian system > > to a base system" but it seems like the topic of interest was to reduce the > > memory consumption of the installed system, which is not my consern. > > > > In essence I would like to revert my syste

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:54 -0900 wrote: Would be nice to have a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used aptitude (dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not that many packages, no X. Yes I agree it would be a very handy feature. What is the debian-user mail

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
> On Friday 19 March 2010 01:09:20 pm Mike Viau wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:40 +0100 > > > From: iod...@runbox.no > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system > > > > >

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:44 -0300 wrote: >Ok the bigger problem you should have is "what is a base system" I agree, what a base system means can be different among users. >You could run in another box a installation and get a list of the basic system >packages, but what

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Ok the bigger problem you should have is "what is a base system" You could run in another box a installation and get a list of the basic system packages, but what do you want the box for? give us a user case and we would try to sort this mess out for you. Definitely purging X is a mu

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 19 March 2010 01:09:20 pm Mike Viau wrote: > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:40 +0100 > > From: iod...@runbox.no > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system > > > > Mike Viau wrote: > > >

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote: > I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were > installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal system > installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a Debian system > to a ba

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-19 15:21, Mike Viau wrote: [snip] I was hoping to find a solution for a currently running Debian system rather then to create a bare bone baseline or image... I did that once, for a little Debian-based router. Got it down to 250MB, even including Python and ssh. But that was m

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:40 +0100 > From: iod...@runbox.no > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system > > Mike Viau wrote: > > In essence I would like to revert my system back to a freshly > > install

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Odd
Mike Viau wrote: In essence I would like to revert my system back to a freshly installed state, without reinstalling. Ultimatly is this possible? -snip- I was hoping to find a solution for a currently running Debian system rather then to create a bare bone baseline or image... Wouldn't the ea

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:02:30 -0500 > From: rac...@makeworld.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello Debian users, > > > &

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Chris
Mike Viau wrote: Hello Debian users, I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were installed on a Debian system _after_ the initial (bare bone) minimal system installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a Debian system to a base system" bu

How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
Hello Debian users, I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal system installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a Debian system to a base system" but it seems like th

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-30 Thread Geek87
don't want this to > update just like that. Everything depends on it. > > If it's your local desktop, it doens't really matter. But then you don't > have to automate it because you can do it at logon or whatever. > > Koen Linders > > Thank you fo

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-28 Thread koen.news
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:53 +0100, Geek87 wrote: > Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty? > > Thanks in advance. > > Geek87 I don't think it's a good idea. Because if in your example sendmail is replaced with postfix. Config files will not be magically filled it for the

Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-28 Thread Geek87
Hi all! I'm new on the list so I hope my question is not stupid and I'm asking it in the good list. I have Sid installed on my computer and I would like to know how to keep my base system (~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard) always clean and up to date automatically: if package A is

Re: SOLVED, Re: amd64 install hangs installing base system

2009-06-05 Thread gcrimp
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:48:30AM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Thing is, I ran memtest86+ last night but it the computer froze midway >> through test #3 of the first pass. I assumed it was because I was running >> a 32 bit version of memtest on a 64 bit architecture, b

Re: SOLVED, Re: amd64 install hangs installing base system

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Witbrodt
gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Thing is, I ran memtest86+ last night but it the computer froze midway through test #3 of the first pass. I assumed it was because I was running a 32 bit version of memtest on a 64 bit architecture, but lacking anything better to try, I ran it again. Sure enough, there w

SOLVED, Re: amd64 install hangs installing base system

2009-06-04 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:11:22AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:16 AM, wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install 5.0.1, amd64 to an MSI motherboard with and Athlon 64 > > processor. I get as far as installing the base system, then

Re: amd64 install hangs installing base system

2009-06-04 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:16 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 5.0.1, amd64 to an MSI motherboard with and Athlon 64 > processor. I get as far as installing the base system, then at 27%, > "extracting login" the system hangs. Any thoughts? > > Th

amd64 install hangs installing base system

2009-06-04 Thread gcrimp
Hi, I'm trying to install 5.0.1, amd64 to an MSI motherboard with and Athlon 64 processor. I get as far as installing the base system, then at 27%, "extracting login" the system hangs. Any thoughts? The iso image passed and md5 check sum, and I tried burning it three times, so

Re: debian base system install

2007-09-02 Thread Rolando Pereira
John Pycroft wrote: i am a new user and i'm trying to install your current version of debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 os on my GigaByte P4 desktop PC. every time i run the base system installer, it spends a long time on initamfs-tools or something like that, after it sits on that one file for a

debian base system install

2007-09-01 Thread John Pycroft
i am a new user and i'm trying to install your current version of debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 os on my GigaByte P4 desktop PC. every time i run the base system installer, it spends a long time on initamfs-tools or something like that, after it sits on that one file for around 20mins, the inst

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 02:37:42PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:28:36AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > > > Do you have any idea if this is a bug, or just a problem I encountered > > on my particular installation? (I got it working with your help by the > > way.)

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:28:36AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > On 4/21/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Just a quick note, top-posting is generally frowned upon here (I purged > >the rest of the topic from this message because it was becoming a > >complicated mess, too much f

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Redefined Horizons
On 4/21/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a quick note, top-posting is generally frowned upon here (I purged the rest of the topic from this message because it was becoming a complicated mess, too much for me to fix). > Scott Huey wrote: > Michael, > > How do I restart the insta

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
Just a quick note, top-posting is generally frowned upon here (I purged the rest of the topic from this message because it was becoming a complicated mess, too much for me to fix). > Scott Huey wrote: > Michael, > > How do I restart the installation after I've made the changes you > indicated? >

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
rd drive, when the installation crashes. > > > > > > The error message I get is: > > > > > > Base System Installation Error The debootstra program exited with > > > an error (return value 1) > > > > > > Failed to install the base system The base sys

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Redefined Horizons
;m not hooked to the internet just yet.) I > > was running Debian Etch on the computer before. > > > > I get through the first portion of the installation, including the > > partitioning of the hard drive, when the installation crashes. > > > > The error message I ge

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Redefined Horizons
ioning of the hard drive, when the installation crashes. > > The error message I get is: > > Base System Installation Error > The debootstra program exited with an error (return value 1) > > Failed to install the base system > The base system installatio into /target/ failed. &

Re: Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
through the first portion of the installation, including the > partitioning of the hard drive, when the installation crashes. > > The error message I get is: > > Base System Installation Error > The debootstra program exited with an error (return value 1) > > Failed to inst

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