On Thu 20 Jun 2019 at 20:01:39 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 18/06/2019 à 18:15, David Wright a écrit :
> >
> > It's long been a disappointment that there's no
> > GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_LABEL=true parameter in /etc/default/grub.
>
> What for ? grub-mkconfig does not use LABELs by defaut, so t
Le 18/06/2019 à 18:15, David Wright a écrit :
It's long been a disappointment that there's no
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_LABEL=true parameter in /etc/default/grub.
What for ? grub-mkconfig does not use LABELs by defaut, so there is no
need to disable them. I wish there was a way to tell grub-mkconfig
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 22:50:28 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-16 14:17 (UTC-0500):
> > David Wright wrote:
>
> >> or, even easier,
>
> >>Use a LABEL to indicate the swap partition in all your own
> ...> I can't parse that.
>
> I recommend learning to use L
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 9:06 PM David Wright
wrote:
> On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > > It's rather easy to work around this problem in one of two ways (at
> least):
> >
> > Ways on order of {# users}**N { N < world_population} ;/
>
> Eh?
>
He's claiming that
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:57 PM Linux-Fan wrote:
>
> Just a few benefits of VMs I can think of here:
> .
> * Historically, VMs were sometimes emulated and thus slower than operating
>a system "bare-metal". On my systems, installations in VMs are often
>faster than installations on th
David Wright writes:
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> > > My solution is install Grub
Le 17/06/2019 à 04:50, Felix Miata a écrit :
I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively
easier for humans to work with than UUIDs. You get to assign them in accordance
with how your brain functions, e.g.:
#
LABEL=m12P01esp
Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-16 14:17 (UTC-0500):
> David Wright wrote:
>> or, even easier,
>>Use a LABEL to indicate the swap partition in all your own
...> I can't parse that.
I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively
easier for humans to work
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the
> > >
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 2:17 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I'm not experimenting with the installation process, but with what I
> want the result to be.
>
Those are 2 sides of the same coin.
> >Does top show much use of swap anyway?)
>
> Not a parameter of my experiment's protocol.
> As I d
On 6/16/2019 9:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote:
>> On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the
association between a dir
On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the
association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical
partition it is on.
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the
> > association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical
> > partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also iden
On 06/15/2019 09:22 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian
in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half
dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot.
For my pur
Le 15/06/2019 à 21:10, Felix Miata a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2019-06-15 16:22 (UTC+0200):
in legacy mode
Oops, I meant in EFI mode.
the installer does not allow to select a location and name...
...It would be nice if the installer
could offer to define a custom identifier for th
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2019-06-15 16:22 (UTC+0200):
> in legacy mode
> the installer does not allow to select a location and name...
> ...It would be nice if the installer
> could offer to define a custom identifier for the boot loader.
Unless something has changed lately, a bootloader "l
Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in
order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half
dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot.
For my purposes, the Debian installer has two annoyances:
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.
The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
TIA
The filename I had forg
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