Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:52:48PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2023-06-08 19:08, Mike Castle wrote: > > > I couldn't afford a large enough harddrive for the second system, nor > > ethernet cards (and a local shop was going to charge me $50 to make a > > crossover cable if I went that route!). >

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Fri 09 Jun 2023 at 13:12:36 (+0100), James Addison wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 11:52:28 +0100, wrote: > > On Fri 09 Jun 2023 at 10:44:23 (+0100), James Addison wrote: > > > (in terms of practicalities: I realize that if there were no > > > initrd/initramfs, then the kernel would need to know o

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On 2023-06-08 19:08, Mike Castle wrote: I couldn't afford a large enough harddrive for the second system, nor ethernet cards (and a local shop was going to charge me $50 to make a crossover cable if I went that route!). swapping around the red and red-white with the green and green-white wire

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

> What you should consider is that this initramfs setup allows you to > pull the disk from your (possibly dead) computer and stuff it into > some other (with hopefully similar architecture) and you have at > least a fair chance that the thing will boot, because at initramfs > time some modules are

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 11:52:28 +0100, wrote: > On Fri 09 Jun 2023 at 10:44:23 (+0100), James Addison wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Naturally a block device isn't a game cartridge - t

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Fri 09 Jun 2023 at 10:44:23 (+0100), James Addison wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Naturally a block device isn't a game cartridge - the former could > > > contain many different operating sy

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > [...] > > > Naturally a block device isn't a game cartridge - the former could > > contain many different operating systems, with the potential for > > dynamic resizing. But it feels like we

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: [...] > Naturally a block device isn't a game cartridge - the former could > contain many different operating systems, with the potential for > dynamic resizing. But it feels like we haven't landed on the simplest > way to approximat

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On 2023-06-08, James Addison wrote: > Basically what I'm wondering about is whether there's some kind of > future utopia where operating system filesystem images -- and the > process of managing and booting from them -- could be made > significantly simpler. You can already do that. Compile a ker

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:13:30 +0200, Sven wrote: > On 2023-06-08 15:41 +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an > > initramfs? > > I did this in the distance past, some 15 years ago or so. Have long > abandoned that idea, though. > > > I

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > Merged-usr is officially mandated for bookworm, and upgrades to bookworm > will do the merge, if it hasn't already happened. End of an era. My first Linux system (predating the existence of Debian), mounted /usr over NFS over PLIP. I couldn

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 06:34:36PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > IIUC trixy will enforce merged-usr, it's optional until then. (bicbw, it > might be bookworm that will enforce it - all my systems are already > merged and I don't run testing) Merged-usr is officially mandated for bookworm, and upgrad

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, James Addison wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server systems, because I think that a large motivating factor to use initramfs -- across many distributions -

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On 2023-06-08, James Addison wrote: > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? > > I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server systems, > because I think that a large motivating factor to use initramfs -- > across many distributions -- was to

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On 2023-06-08 15:41 +0100, James Addison wrote: > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? I did this in the distance past, some 15 years ago or so. Have long abandoned that idea, though. > I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server system

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7:01 PM Gregory Seidman < gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:02:32PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? > > Yes, I use WSL2 on my work machine and ru

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/26/21 12:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: AIUI ... there is no such thing as installing another Linux distribution on top of WSL. Right and wrong -- you can install a WSL 2 version of Debian GNU/Linux into WSL 2 via the Microsoft Store: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:02:32PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? Yes, I use WSL2 on my work machine and run Debian in it. [...] > In particular, i would like to > (a) be able to remotely access the WSL debia

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

Dan Hitt writes: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for- linux) machine? Yes, limited experience with it here :) I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself.  So i would like to be able to ssh in, back

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/25/21 8:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. So i would like to be able to ssh in, back up files into it, and do ot

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:23:05PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL [...] > So maybe you can just ditch the Windows part, :-) Some aren't so lucky. Microsoft's latest trick is to outsource the compulsory part to employers (they've got the

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/26/2021 4:02 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I'm not able to directly answer your question but I wanted to point out that you could also look at Cygwin or Qemu. In the case of Qemu, Debian would be the host

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Thu, Mar 25 2021 at 08:02:32 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? > I use WSL (not the newer WSL2) on a work computer. > I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to > also use it my

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/25/21 8:23 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I don't, sorry. I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. But I do have experience with using Debian f

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

> Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I don't, sorry. > I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to > also use it myself. But I do have experience with using Debian for "the family computer". So maybe you

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:20:52 +1100 "Sam Varghese" wrote: > I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running > Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a > year and cannot find anything on this subject. > > I am running the testing stream and am l

Re: sig separator (was Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system)

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:14:18 + Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hello Jonathan, >Yes. I felt trying to encode the \n inside the quote marks (or putting a >literal \n in the quote marks) would harm comprehension, and hoped that Probably true. Still, there's at least one person on the list that appea

Re: sig separator (was Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system)

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:49:16AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:54:25 + ("-- " with the trailing space) That's not quite enough to make it entirely valid; The 'dash, dash, space' must be all that's on that line. Put anything after the space, and most MUAs won't recogni

Re: sig separator (was Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system)

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:54:25 + Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hello Jonathan, >("-- " with the trailing space) That's not quite enough to make it entirely valid; The 'dash, dash, space' must be all that's on that line. Put anything after the space, and most MUAs won't recognise it as valid. --

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Hello, On 22/02/2019 14:39, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:12 pm, Andrea Borgia wrote: >> Hi, Sam. >> >> Unless you go for the "G" variant of Ryzen (with embedded GPU(, you should >> be good to go with no special care if you use the current "testing". >> If you decide to use "G"

sig separator (was Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system)

Dear Sam Not addressing your question, but just to point out On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 07:20:52AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: -- (Sam Varghese) Your sig separator here ("--") does not match the common convention for sig separators ("-- " with the trailing space), and so it is not recogni

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:12 pm, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hi, Sam. > > Unless you go for the "G" variant of Ryzen (with embedded GPU(, you should > be good to go with no special care if you use the current "testing". > If you decide to use "G" as I did, you should probably opt for this > kernel: >

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Hi, Sam. Unless you go for the "G" variant of Ryzen (with embedded GPU(, you should be good to go with no special care if you use the current "testing". If you decide to use "G" as I did, you should probably opt for this kernel: https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries Regards, Andre

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

On 22/02/2019 03:50, Étienne Mollier wrote: Sam Varghese wrote: I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my concern. Good Day, You were probably referring to CPU idle states bugs appearing under certain circumstances. I have been confronted to an AMD Ryzen machin

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Sam Varghese composed on 2019-02-22 07:20 (UTC+1100): > I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running > Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a > year and cannot find anything on this subject. (IMO, as one who has not purchased any new AMD p

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 07:20:52AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a year and cannot find anything on this subject. I am running the testing stream and am lookin

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Sam Varghese wrote: > I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my > concern. Good Day, You were probably referring to CPU idle states bugs appearing under certain circumstances. I have been confronted to an AMD Ryzen machine a few months ago, on which processor C-sta

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

On Fri, February 22, 2019 8:11 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my >> concern. > > I haven't seen any while running Stretch or later. >> I presume that the built-in graphics system can be disabled from the >> BIOS

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:46 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > > What are you concerned about? > > Thanks for your response, Dan. > > I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my > concern. I haven't seen any while running Stretch or later. > I pre

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:46 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running >> Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a >> year and cannot find anything on this subject. >> >> I am running the t

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Sam Varghese wrote: > I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running > Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a > year and cannot find anything on this subject. > > I am running the testing stream and am looking to upgrade a 10-year-old PC > w

Re: Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?

On 24/05/15 00:47, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > On my old laptop I chose Openobex as window manager because Gnome is too heavy > for it. I get though: > > $ free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 213207 5

Re: Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?

Hi. On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:47:27 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > On my old laptop I chose Openobex as window manager because Gnome is too heavy > for it. I get though: > > $ free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 213

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 22:51:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 20:47:47, Brian wrote: > > > > Would you please explain the boot "recovery" option. > > Boot the Debian installer in recovery mode, e.g. to rescue a broken > system. Amazing what one forgets. The mini.iso downloads

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Mi, 22 oct 14, 20:47:47, Brian wrote: > > Would you please explain the boot "recovery" option. Boot the Debian installer in recovery mode, e.g. to rescue a broken system. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 22:16:16 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:55:03, Brian wrote: > > > > This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will > > still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same > > reason: the netinst image does not cont

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:55:03, Brian wrote: > > This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will > still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same > reason: the netinst image does not contain loop.ko. It should work with the mini.iso (the netboot image), bec

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 09:56:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will > > still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same > > reason: the netinst im

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 15:47:57 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-10-22, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > > Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image > > Booting the debian installer from the hard disk: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en That is quite a nift

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" { > > > loopback loop > > > (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On 2014-10-22, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image > > Booting the debian installer from the hard disk: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" { > > loopback loop (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso > > linux (loop)/install.386/vmlinuz > > in

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > > > image or CD-1 to complete s

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > > image or CD-1 to complete successfully. > > If you say so :-) I do say so. > I find it hard t

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > > > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or > > > is > > > it man

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is > > it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? > > Here

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is > it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image men

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 23:14:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: > > > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or > > is it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media > > booted? For example, severa

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: > It appears to me that it should be possible to run the Debian Installer > just as a program and a set of package files rather than as a bootable > image containing both. So, given a bootable image in .ISO or .img format, > how can the image be transf

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hi Andrei, On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: Hi guys, I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). I would like to install a De

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > > > I would like to instal

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hi Andrei, > On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > > I would like to install a Debian Testing on it and some useful services > > (webserver, wiki, xm

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi guys, > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > I would like to install a Debian Testing on it and some useful services > (webserver, wiki, xmpp server, mail server, ...). [snip] You may want to ask on debian-arm instead

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

Take a look at Voyage Linux which is based on Debian Live and is intended for low power/space systems. It runs in read-only mode with certain dynamic folders running in RAM disks, but can be switched to read-write mode to make system changes: http://linux.voyage.hk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

Did you take a look at this? http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debirf I have used it couple of times and I have been able to boot from RAM. The package is not in current stable version though but you can easily backport it.

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:43:25PM +0300, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings all- > > I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone > can shed some light. ;-) > > > I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communications > (think VoIP and RS232 seria

Re: Running Debian Stable

Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OOo 3.0 to a Debian stable installation? By adding the unstable Debian repository? Pu

Re: Running Debian Stable

Mark Allums wrote: > Yes, OO.o is in experimental. Just add any repository mirror that has > experimental, and apt will do the work. And it is ready for production, > IMO. > I'm using OO 3 from experimental in Lenny with no problems. But since the original poster is running stable, it will

Re: Running Debian Stable

Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I

Re: Running Debian Stable

On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OO

Re: Running Debian Stable

On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OOo 3.0 to a Debian stable installation? By adding the u

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> I agree with you, but I can tell you why that is so. Most companies >> don't trust things that come for volunteer organizations. The attitude >> of many people i

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I agree with you, but I can tell you why that is so. Most companies > don't trust things that come for volunteer organizations. The attitude > of many people is "it's worth what you pay for it", which means that > free software has no

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > There isn't any thing I've installed I haven't been able to get working > with a "current" Debian kernel. Of course, I use Sid for everything, > everything I personally manage and have responsibility for and close > prox

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 22:16 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > > no chance :( > > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using >

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > no chance :( > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH fro

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:14:01PM +0100, Marcin wrote: > Friday 16 of March 2007 11:28:28 Daniel Wyeth napisa??(a): > > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > > Thanks everyone for these hints > > After I read your posts and did some googling this pop in my mind: > 1) inst

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > no chance :( > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH fro

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

Friday 16 of March 2007 11:28:28 Daniel Wyeth napisał(a): > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: Thanks everyone for these hints After I read your posts and did some googling this pop in my mind: 1) install RHEL - as small as possible 2) install ALL needed modules - e.g. fo

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

I have done this for a couple of years on two separate laptops, mixing RedHat and Mandriva. Even recently I sucessfully tried a kernel from RIP (mini-distribution) on a Debian. However, lately there has not been much of a need. More likely than not it will not work due to the mix of libraries

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH from my > server to EMC so natural failover which comes with EMC can't be > achieved. EMC AX 150 has 2 FC co

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > no chance :( > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH fro

Re: Running debian on athlon X2?

On 13/03/06, Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at getting a new rig, and I've decided that what I *really* want > is one of those new Athlon64 X2's (cue Homer S. gargling noise). > > Since I've been a happy Debian user for over 5 years now, I'd like to stick > with what I know

Re: Running debian on athlon X2?

> I'm looking at getting a new rig, and I've decided that what I *really* want > is one of those new Athlon64 X2's (cue Homer S. gargling noise). > > Since I've been a happy Debian user for over 5 years now, I'd like to stick > with what I know. But from looking at the web site, I haven't found a

Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:36:03 -0500, [KS] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > J Merritt wrote: > > I recently installed Debian on an old Dell Latitude XPi. Because of > > limitations of the system, I had to forego booting from CD and ..if it cannot be set to boot off the cd from a bios settin

Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

> > Anyway, every time I boot up from GRUB, it goes straight to the login prompt, and once you login, you're left at the command line. I am used to the autoboot sequence where it goes directly to the GUI login screen and you just load KDE or Gnome or whatever environment you want. In this case, I a

Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

J Merritt wrote: > I recently installed Debian on an old Dell Latitude XPi. Because of > limitations of the system, I had to forego booting from CD and instead create > boot and driver diskettes on floppy and load a netstat CD to get the base > install done. I installed a minimal set of packages

Re: running Debian on a nokia cell phone?

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rainer Bendig aka Ny wrote: > is there any documentation how to run a minimal Debian on a Nokia > 6600? And yes i know that this is a silly idea :-) And I know it that > i'll maybe loose the possibility to make calls with the cell phone ^^. i think everybody has a few cell p

Re: running debian on graphics cards

Andrea Vettorello wrote: I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? If you look on google you should find a project to do math on your GPU, IIRC was someting like "GPGPU"... Thanks Andrea, that was a good link. the site is

Re: running debian on graphics cards

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:00 +, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered > whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? > > There, that's a wacky question for today! I don't even know whether the > question makes sense. >

Re: running debian on graphics cards

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:09 +, Dave Howorth wrote: > I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered > whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? > > There, that's a wacky question for today! I don't even know whether the > question makes sense. GPUs and the circuit

Re: Running Debian

On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Neil Walker wrote: > Have a look at SVGATextMode it's very good. > I got mine of a InfoMagic CD but its on Sunsite, > gives you whatever size screen you want for dselect, > I usually use 116x36. Its a Debian package too.. :) Doesn't look very good with my video card and mo

Re: Running Debian

Daniel Stringfield writes: > On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xse

Re: Running Debian

Fabien Ninoles writes: > Agree with the principle of a bare-bone select for installation and a > more pleasant for a complete installation and see no trouble to have the > two (or three) in a distribution. But I have to disagree to the principe > to replace the info with colors. Used them to enhanc

Re: Running Debian

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agree with the principle of a bare-bone select for installation and a more > pleasant for a complete installation and see no trouble to have the two > (or three) in a distribution. But I have to disagree to the pr

Re: Running Debian

On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect > > > > Kind of like make

Re: Running Debian

On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect > > > > Kind of like mak

Re: Running Debian

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect > Kind of like make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig I agree that

Re: Running Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) said: > I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge > graphical thing that won't run on a terminal and depends on a lot of > other stuff. Keep it simple. having recently used `make xconfig' to make a new kernel, i think a simple, easy-to-u

Re: Running Debian

On 3 Nov 1996, Tom Fawcett wrote: > As someone who has thought about rewriting dselect into a huge graphical > thing that won't run on a terminal -- why? > > Package management is a hairy task involving a lot of information, and > doing it on a 24x80 screen is almost painful. I appreciate the n

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