Le 29/10/2019 à 20:37, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
the file system you use matters, some file systems only use uefi and
will give you no legacy support.
Utter nonsense.
Joe wrote:
> That's OK, so will I when an OS version of Access exists. I'm not
> holding my breath.
The business enforces is, we can not do anything against. I don't mind using
the crap if they pay the license and they pay me for using it.
I used to have one linux pc before, but now I have to us
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:10:04 -0700
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 10/29/19 12:07 PM, Joe wrote:
>
> > No, it doesn't do legacy. There is no 'legacy' on any BIOS screen.
> > It's an Aspire ES1-132. But Stretch installed in EFI easily and
> > even gave me a dual-boot with Win10, which didn't interest m
On 10/29/19 12:07 PM, Joe wrote:
No, it doesn't do legacy. There is no 'legacy' on any BIOS screen. It's
an Aspire ES1-132. But Stretch installed in EFI easily and even gave me
a dual-boot with Win10, which didn't interest me at the time, but does
now. I'm doing a bit of Access work for the firs
On 10/29/19 12:22 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
HP UEFI firmwares were among the most broken ones, ignoring EFI boot
entries created for GRUB.
I swear those new hp's are broken by design just like our main
stream(cough) linux. But if you find the right system, using the right
kernel you can get
On 10/29/19 9:23 AM, deloptes wrote:
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch
screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model
right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to
go to bios at boot,
Le 29/10/2019 à 17:23, deloptes a écrit :
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
I personally do not see a reason why I should mess up with the bios to
switch back and fort to legacy and not legacy
Because some (many ?) UEFI firmwares are defective and having them boot
a GNU/Linux system in EFI mode can be a r
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:45:56 -0700
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 10/29/19 1:56 AM, Joe wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700
> > Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote:
> Peter Ehlert wrote:
>
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch
> screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model
> right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to
> go to bios at boot, to boot device where I find wha
On 10/29/19 1:56 AM, Joe wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote:
Peter Ehlert wrote:
I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub
properly installed... not able to boot.
I to
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> >
> > On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote:
> >> Peter Ehlert wrote:
> >>> I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub
> >>> properly installed... not able to boot.
> >>> I too
On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote:
Peter Ehlert wrote:
I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly
installed... not able to boot.
I too would like such a tool
hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent
releas
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Background: One of my "volunteer activities" is to "Rehabilitate" really
> old Hardware, to keep it off our Landfills, and to have it available to
> people with Extremely Low finances. I was part of an organization in
> Seattle, doing this, but I am not finding others, at
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Here I am. And yes, I have run installs on USB Drives, on one system, and
> then tried to boot it on another. Things that go wrong include different
> naming conventions for Ethernet, sound woes, and even (at least once) only
> getting into Text Mode, due to wildly differ
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 4:52 PM Brian wrote:
The OP will be along in a while to give his assessment of the suggested
> techniques and how they fit his aspirations.
>
Here I am. And yes, I have run installs on USB Drives, on one system, and
then tried to boot it on another. Things that go wro
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 7:01 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/27/2019 04:27 AM, deloptes wrote:
> > Tom Browder wrote:
> >
> >> That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details!
> >
> > well, it is not a rocket science as shown above - I'll post here this
> > evening or tomorrow. I need
I've been swamped for a few days: Sorry it took me a while to get back to
this Thread.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 1:32 PM Brian wrote:
> On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 12:33:52 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but
> > I'
Brian wrote:
>> Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me.
>
> Time (and the fun in taking on a task) is what keeps Debian alive.
>
I would write a wiki on debian only if it is approved by the community. I
think it is fair, so if we agree, but also someone else can do t
On Sun 27 Oct 2019 at 21:22:41 +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>
> > Why "someone"? Why not you?
>
> Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me.
Time (and the fun in taking on a task) is what keeps Debian alive.
> >> This is a step by step how to to install debian
Brian wrote:
> Why "someone"? Why not you?
>
Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> This is a step by step how to to install debian on a USB stick and
>> make this stick bootable. The stick in the example is found under
>> /dev/sdb. Change to
On 10/27/2019 03:12 PM, Brian wrote:
""
*!*
On Sun 27 Oct 2019 at 19:41:12 +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Peter Ehlert wrote:
>
> > I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly
> > installed... not able to boot.
> > I too would like such a tool
>
> Let me know how it works - perhaps someone could put it on the Debian Wik
Peter Ehlert wrote:
> I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly
> installed... not able to boot.
> I too would like such a tool
Let me know how it works - perhaps someone could put it on the Debian Wiki
after refinement.
regards
This is a step by step how to to instal
On 10/27/2019 09:31 AM, deloptes wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI?
I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy
BIOS.
[snip]
Regarding older hardware, it might be that the kernel does not support this
or that. You know Debian does not
On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote:
Peter Ehlert wrote:
I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly
installed... not able to boot.
I too would like such a tool
hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent
release so i'm actually one stable back now :) )
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI?
> I don't have a clear idea of what Kenneth described in his original post.
> HOWEVER, having such a system might be worthwhile to explore some of my
> ideas. I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy
> BIOS.
On 10/27/2019 04:27 AM, deloptes wrote:
Tom Browder wrote:
That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details!
well, it is not a rocket science as shown above - I'll post here this
evening or tomorrow. I need to redo this on the debian system and see if
there are some differences
W
Tom Browder wrote:
> That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details!
well, it is not a rocket science as shown above - I'll post here this
evening or tomorrow. I need to redo this on the debian system and see if
there are some differences
Peter Ehlert wrote:
> I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly
> installed... not able to boot.
> I too would like such a tool
hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent
release so i'm actually one stable back now :) ). no issues
at all booting from it
Brian wrote:
...
> Would you please explain what you mean by "...leaving any Local Hard
> Drives alone."?
i would assume that booting from a USB device which
only mounts that device and none of the hard drives
unless they are specified in the fstab of the USB system's
/etc
other standard temp
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:52 deloptes wrote:
> deloptes wrote:
>
...
>
> Rebooted and voila it works.
> >
> > regards
>
> Perhaps I should write a howto as I see +1 interested
That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details!
Best regards,
-Tom
deloptes wrote:
> Just did this yesterday on a RHEL server - it actually doesn't matter what
> linux is there. It all works the same way.
>
> I used EFI so I setup GPT and created the 3 partitions marking the first
> (EFI) as bootable.
> Format all as required and mount for example
> mount /dev/
On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 12:33:52 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but
> I'm hoping for more.
>
> I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, preferably
> using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot fro
I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly
installed... not able to boot.
I too would like such a tool
On 10/26/19 9:33 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
Hello,
What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive),
but I'm hoping for more.
I'd like to format
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> What is different this time, is that I'd like to be able to Boot this from
> different Systems, probing their Network, Sound, Video, Keyboard and Mouse
> systems on Bootup, but leaving any Local Hard Drives alone. Existing
> systems do this, for example, Knoppix, but it's
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:33:52 -0400
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive),
> but I'm hoping for more.
>
> I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions,
> preferably using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot from
Hello,
What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but
I'm hoping for more.
I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, preferably
using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot from older systems). The
Partitions are Root, Swap and Home. So far, so good
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