Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-24 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:02:56PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2015 19:03:04 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: snip... > > > > > > Or maybe I just remind you of your Freshman English teacher. ;-) (I'm >

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 23 November 2015 19:03:04 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtz

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-23 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lis

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 November 2015 19:00:19 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think I knew what you meant Lisi, but on this side of the small > > pond we spell it teensy, meaning a very small quantity of something. > > Like a pinch of salt in a r

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think I knew what you meant Lisi, but on this side of the small pond we > spell it teensy, meaning a very small quantity of something. Like a > pinch of salt in a recipe. Thats normally less than a dash unless you > shake the

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 November 2015 16:38:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Rei

Correction Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 22 November 2015 21:38:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I'm > probably old more than enough. "I'm probably more than old enough." Sorry - moved some words and misread the result. :-( Lisi

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtz

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > It looks like it is. What functional disadvantage is it to a user of > sysvinit or systemd? The login terminal becomes inaccessible, messages from X are hidden, and one of the terminals is used up. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ros

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > So the operations are simply setting up an e

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the > > > rescue, not overwriting the existin

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
The Debian live CD isn't much as a rescue CD; it lacks parted and lvm, for example. At least the text only image I used did. Of course, you can install those packages after startup. I wasn't logged in, and it took some searching to find out the right id. For the record it's user, with password

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
Yes; I ended up with the Debian Installer. I think I've found the right place now. Of course, there's Knoppix, but the smaller image is a bit dated. Thanks everyone for your help. Ross On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrot

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the > > rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to change my > > expectation if that's the case

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the > rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to change my > expectation if that's the case.Maybe by the end of it there is a more > complete system, e

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 November 2015 20:10:38 Ross Boylan wrote: > In the meantime I've downloaded the first CD of the Debian live CD's. ?? Lisi

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Nov 2015 at 12:10:38 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the > rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to change my > expectation if that's the case.Maybe by the end of it there is a more > complete system, e.g.

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ross Boylan a écrit : > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the > rescue, not overwriting the existing system? Even in installer mode, nothing is written on the disks until you validate the changes in partman, the partitioning tool.

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Ross Boylan
So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to change my expectation if that's the case.Maybe by the end of it there is a more complete system, e.g., with bash. In the meantime I've downloaded the first CD of the

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:52:45PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: [...] > It appears that vgimportclone is defined as a bash script (1st line > contains #!/bin/bash) but bash is not included in the Debian installer. > I don't know if this script reall

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Nov 2015 at 11:18:41 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > After booting the Debian 8.2 netinst iso I noticed a couple of oddities. > > First, I selected advanced and rescue, but this seemed to end up walking me > through the installer. I was expecting to be dropped into a shell. At the > scree

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ross Boylan a écrit : > After booting the Debian 8.2 netinst iso I noticed a couple of oddities. > > First, I selected advanced and rescue, but this seemed to end up walking me > through the installer. Indeed, the first steps are identical to an installation. > I was expecting to be dropped into

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Edwards
On 21/11/15 08:18, Ross Boylan wrote: After booting the Debian 8.2 netinst iso I noticed a couple of oddities. First, I selected advanced and rescue, but this seemed to end up walking me through the installer. I was expecting to be dropped into a shell. At the screen that asked for system name