Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread tomas
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:38:07PM +0200, hede wrote: > Am 29.09.2022 21:40, schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, David wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > The software I want to run is provided by Ubiquity as an NVR for their > > > cameras, I have versions for Debia

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread hede
Am 29.09.2022 21:40, schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, David wrote: [...] The software I want to run is provided by Ubiquity as an NVR for their cameras, I have versions for Debian 7, 8 & 9. I think the warnings from both Andys and hede are a bit too one-sid

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread tomas
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, David wrote: [...] > The software I want to run is provided by Ubiquity as an NVR for their > cameras, I have versions for Debian 7, 8 & 9. I think the warnings from both Andys and hede are a bit too one-sided, if well-meant. If you need to install an o

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread David
On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 14:52 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:09:13PM +0100, David wrote: > > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. > > > > Everything went well until I came to configure it, the local screen > > is > > blank, but if I SSH into the box it works. But I

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread hede
Am 29.09.2022 18:02, schrieb Andy Smith: Hello, On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:43:32PM +0100, David wrote: The reason for Debian 8 is the software I want to run on it. This is a really bad idea. The whole thing is lacking security fixes, so it will only continue to get worse. If there was no way

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:43:32PM +0100, David wrote: > The reason for Debian 8 is the software I want to run on it. This is a really bad idea. The whole thing is lacking security fixes, so it will only continue to get worse. If there was no way to make this software work on a non-obsole

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:09:13PM +0100, David wrote: > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. > > Everything went well until I came to configure it, the local screen is > blank, but if I SSH into the box it works. But I can only logon as a > user. > > I need to be able to logon as root to ma

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread David
On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 10:22 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-09-29 at 10:09, David wrote: > > > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. > > Why? The current release is Debian 11, and Debian 8 is old enough > that > I'd be surprised if it were getting any support at all. Is there some > spec

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-09-29 at 10:09, David wrote: > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. Why? The current release is Debian 11, and Debian 8 is old enough that I'd be surprised if it were getting any support at all. Is there some specific purpose for which you specifically need to install/run an outdated

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread Anssi Saari
David writes: > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. > > Everything went well until I came to configure it, the local screen is > blank, but if I SSH into the box it works. But I can only logon as a > user. > > I need to be able to logon as root to make changes. I've tried sudu, > but as the

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Sep 2022 at 15:09:13 (+0100), David wrote: > I have loaded Debian 8 on to a 64 bit pc. > > Everything went well until I came to configure it, the local screen is > blank, but if I SSH into the box it works. But I can only logon as a > user. > > I need to be able to logon as root to make

Re: Debian 8 system is not fully functional

2020-12-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 8:08 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:49:30PM +0800, zhang yang wrote: > > IP_ dynaddr > > To modify and save the prompt: "IP"_ dynaddr" E212: Can't open file for > > writing“. > > So I used Chmod 777 ip_ dynaddr authority, display error: Chmod: changing

Re: Debian 8 system is not fully functional

2020-12-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:49:30PM +0800, zhang yang wrote: > IP_ dynaddr > To modify and save the prompt: "IP"_ dynaddr" E212: Can't open file for > writing“. > So I used Chmod 777 ip_ dynaddr authority, display error: Chmod: changing > permissions of 'IP_ dynaddr': Operation not permitted. > I us

Re: Debian 8 system is not fully functional

2020-12-23 Thread zhang yang
When I turn it on https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/ip-sysctl.html I guess it's IP_ Dynaddr - Boolean. If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses. If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting occurs.Default

Re: Debian 8 system is not fully functional

2020-12-23 Thread Dan Ritter
zhang yang wrote: > When I write a raw socket to send packets in Linux C, it shows: > WARNNING:The current server does not support IP spoofing. > How to set up debian8 system to use this function 1. Read https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/ip-sysctl.html 2. Install a Debian 10 (sta

Re: Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life

2020-07-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I would like to say that Debian 8 was my bread and butter at work for most of its supported lifetime. And my main home platform as well, along with CentOS. I think that everyone involved deserves the highest praise. On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:17 PM Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > --

Re: Debian 8

2020-01-02 Thread basti
Hello, this should do the job. http://archive.debian.org/README On 02.01.20 17:53, Hector Leon wrote: > Good Morning; > >   > > Is there a way to get a copy of Debian 8? Thank you ! > >   > >   > > Very Respectfully; > >   > > Hector M Leon > >   >

Re: Debian 8

2020-01-02 Thread Michael Howard
On 02/01/2020 16:53, Hector Leon wrote: Good Morning; Is there a way to get a copy of Debian 8? Thank you ! Very Respectfully; Hector M Leon http://archive.debian.org/ ? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian 8

2020-01-02 Thread basti
Hello, this should do the job. http://archive.debian.org/README On 02.01.20 17:53, Hector Leon wrote: > Good Morning; > >   > > Is there a way to get a copy of Debian 8? Thank you ! > >   > >   > > Very Respectfully; > >   > > Hector M Leon > >   >

Re: Debian 8

2020-01-02 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Hector Leon, 02.01.20, 17:53 CET: > Is there a way to get a copy of Debian 8? Thank you ! http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/ -- Regards mks

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 08:59:16AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:14:22PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > Not sure if on topic, but I what is needed to guess, it should run the > > scripts in order of their rcX/Snn number? I though the difficulty > > would be to use a

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-25 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:14:22PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: [...] > Not sure if on topic, but I what is needed to guess, it should run the > scripts in order of their rcX/Snn number? I though the difficulty > would be to use a suited nn number (and in fact, if my init.d script > would get st

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-25 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks for your reply. On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 5:45 AM Peter Wiersig wrote: > Steffen Dettmer writes: > > So you propose not to use init.d scripts. I usually prefer a simple shell > > script that is easy to test, systemd is just way to complex. > > Like Greg says, systemd units are reall

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-25 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:32 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:26:57PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:27 PM Greg Wooledge > wrote: > > > This is not correct. Debian's systemd will use init.d scripts in > > > compatibility mode. > > > > Ahh, this s

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Peter Wiersig
Steffen Dettmer writes: > So you propose not to use init.d scripts. I usually prefer a simple shell > script that is easy to test, systemd is just way to complex. But probably > for Debian you are right, if I understood correctly, newer versions do not > even support init.d / LSB anymore, so using

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:26:57PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:27 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > This is not correct. Debian's systemd will use init.d scripts in > > compatibility mode. > > Ahh, this sounds good! But how to do that correctly? wooledg:~$ systemctl stat

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks for your reply. On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:27 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > But probably > > for Debian you are right, if I understood correctly, newer versions do > not > > even support init.d / LSB anymore, so using systemd units seems to be > > required there. > > This is not correct

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:20:10PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > So you propose not to use init.d scripts. I usually prefer a simple shell > script that is easy to test, systemd is just way to complex. An init.d script is approximately 5 to 10 times as complicated as a systemd unit. Rough estim

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks for your reply. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM Peter Wiersig wrote: > 5.) > Instead of init.d scripts create systemd units. > https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Creating_or_altering_services https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ So you propose not to use init.d scripts. I

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thank you for your reply. On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 3:34 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Steffen Dettmer (2019-10-18 15:17:10) > > in short: how to use "init.d" scripts on Debian? > > In short: > > service $SERVICE stop > Thanks for the tip. man insserv does not tell about service, an

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-20 Thread Peter Wiersig
5.) Instead of init.d scripts create systemd units. https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Creating_or_altering_services https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ About your gitlab-runner.service failure: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Failed_units HINT: Extensive debugging information about sys

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steffen Dettmer (2019-10-18 15:17:10) > in short: how to use "init.d" scripts on Debian? In short: service $SERVICE stop service $SERVICE start service $SERVICE reload service $SERVICE force-reload service $SERVICE restart > in detail: > > On one server a init.d script with LS

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Latif, On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:02:05AM +0530, Latif Shaikh wrote: > By mirroring via internet, its install properly, I want to install > debian OS by mounting dvd of debian 8.7 on pxe-server means install mirror > by local pxe server. That would have been very useful information to have put

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-15 Thread Latif Shaikh
Thanks to all your support, By mirroring via internet, its install properly, I want to install debian OS by mounting dvd of debian 8.7 on pxe-server means install mirror by local pxe server. On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 1:26 AM deloptes wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hi Latif, > > > > On Thu, Nov

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-15 Thread deloptes
Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Latif, > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:40:14PM +0530, Latif Shaikh wrote: >> Does anyone have proper steps/documents/links for install Debian 8.7 >> Jessie via pxe-server? >> >> I have tried this link but not luck. >> https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall > > It works for

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Latif, On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:40:14PM +0530, Latif Shaikh wrote: > Does anyone have proper steps/documents/links for install Debian 8.7 > Jessie via pxe-server? > > I have tried this link but not luck. https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall It works for me. Where do you get stuck with it?

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-15 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:11 AM Latif Shaikh wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have proper steps/documents/links for install Debian 8.7 > Jessie via pxe-server? > > I have tried this link but not luck. > https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall > > Please help for same. > Not a specific answer to y

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-15 Thread Martin
G'day. If this is not a one trick pony and you want to do it the right¹ way, use FAI: -> https://fai-project.org/ 1) Like in think first, let the computer do the work. Am 15.11.18 um 14:10 schrieb Latif Shaikh: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have proper steps/documents/links for install Debian 8.7

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/12/2017 à 23:46, Dan Norton a écrit : On 12/29/2017 08:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: The details for other detected OSes are provided by os-prober. The entry title for the main OS is derived from the GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR variable in /etc/default/grub. You can tweak it to fit your needs. If

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/29/2017 08:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/12/2017 à 20:07, Dan Norton a écrit : Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24 Device Start    End    Sectors   Size Type /dev/sda1   2048 411647 409600   200M BIOS boot (...) Is the

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/12/2017 à 20:07, Dan Norton a écrit : Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24 Device Start    End    Sectors   Size Type /dev/sda1   2048 411647 409600   200M BIOS boot (...) Is there a problem here? Yes. /dev/sda1 has the type

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-28 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/28/2017 04:48 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 24/12/2017 à 05:36, Felix Miata a écrit : Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500): The menu inside the box is: Debian GNU/Linux Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root) Advanced opt

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/12/2017 à 05:36, Felix Miata a écrit : Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500): The menu inside the box is: Debian GNU/Linux Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root) Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/ma

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-27 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-27 18:59 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Is there more than one directory in /boot/efi/EFI/? If not, it's likely time >> for >> you to explore using /etc/default/grub's GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= option. I need to >> (only one Debian, but 3 openSUSEs installed), but hav

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-27 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-27 18:59 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Based on what I see and what you say, it seems you are modifying the timeout >> for >> Stretch (/etc/default/grub on vol2), but actually booting Stretch from >> Jessie's >> grub.cfg (/etc/default/grub on vol1), which re

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-27 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/23/2017 11:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: The menu inside the box is: Debian GNU/Linux Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root) Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux 8 (j

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-23 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: > The menu inside the box is: > Debian GNU/Linux > Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux > Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root) > Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-23 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/23/2017 04:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 15:12 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: [...] It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to make a selection from i

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-23 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 15:12 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> [...] >> It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems >> efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to >> make >> a selection from its own boot device selection

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-23 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/21/2017 05:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: [...] It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to make a selection from its own boot device selection menu, which requires an F12 keystroke here to

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-21 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 16:53 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500): >>> There are still mysteries I have not solved. For some reason, GRUB has >>> decided that after POST, you only need 3 seconds to choose which >>> installation to boot

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-21 Thread Joe
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:53:19 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > [1] "Insanity is doing the same thing over & over again and expecting > a different result." - Einstein > Probably the single most stupid thing he ever said, given that he also said 'God does not play dice', showing that he knew what dice

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-21 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/21/2017 02:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500): 2. You will make extra work for yourself by having a common swap partition for all installations. With the common swap, each new installation gave rise to these messages:   a. "gave up waiting for s

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-21 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500): > 2. You will make extra work for yourself by having a common swap > partition for all installations. With the common swap, each new > installation gave rise to these messages: >   a. "gave up waiting for suspend/resume device" >   b. "a st

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-21 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/21/2017 04:36 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500): Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500): dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 *

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-12-21 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500): > Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500): >> dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda >> Command (m for help): p >> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 04:29 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 03:57 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filena

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:06:53 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > > > > [1] http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/grub-reinstall.htm > > Well that won't fly. Booted Debian-Live 8.8.0 amd64 Standard and > reached Step 8 in section 1.1 of [1] which called for "grub-install > --root-directory=/x $drive" but gr

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 03:57 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. ERROR

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 03:37 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): > >> After POST, the following appears: > >> [...] > >> PXE-E53: No boot filename received > >> PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > >> ERROR:No boot

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. It tries to PXE boot because it fin

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500): > Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500): >> dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda >> Command (m for help): p >> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500): > dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda > Command (m for help): p > Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:19:13 + Joe wrote: Wrong button. Let's try again: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500 > Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > After POST, the following appears: > > > > [...] > > PXE-E53: No boot filename received > > PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > > ERROR:No boot disk has be

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): > After POST, the following appears: > [...] > PXE-E53: No boot filename received > PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. It tries to PXE boot because it finds no bootable storage device: there i

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/16/2017 03:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC): > > > >> I see the date of the page is 2015, > > IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing > > broken links. > >> Multiple OSes w

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/16/2017 03:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC): I see the date of the page is 2015, IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing broken links. Multiple OSes will still use one overall bootloader, which may or may not redirect to other boot

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 03:59 AM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:15:22 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of directories. Please say more about how to mou

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:38:59PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or "Guided -*" ? Manual. Guided -* is very likely to result in you clobbering the existing partiti

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:15:22 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 > > Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > >> Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of > >> directories. Please say more about how to mount the other >

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 29 November 2017 at 03:15, Dan Norton wrote: > > On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 > Dan Norton wrote: > > > > Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of > directories. Please say more about how to mount the other > installation a

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-28 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of directories. Please say more about how to mount the other installation and share data. How to mount things in another volume group? Good

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-16 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/16/2017 02:27 PM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:34:52 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500): How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the siblings? During installation, for par

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-16 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/16/2017 02:06 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-16 13:34 (UTC-0500): A better description of what I want is "multiboot", instead of "dual boot" in this thread. I can see having up to 4 systems installed, all Debians, on one disk drive. There is an item in [1] which I

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC): > I see the date of the page is 2015, IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing broken links. > Multiple OSes will still use one overall bootloader, which may or may > not redirect to other bootloaders. It is common, therefore, to use

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:34:52 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500): > > > >> How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the > >> siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-16 13:34 (UTC-0500): > A better description of what I want is "multiboot", instead of "dual > boot" in this thread. I can see having up to 4 systems installed, all > Debians, on one disk drive. There is an item in [1] which I see that reads: >   6. Disable LVM su

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-16 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500): How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or "Guided -*" ? I don't think I've ever used Debian's, or an

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 09:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500): How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or "Guided -*" ? I don't think I've ever used Debian's, or an

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 21:38 (UTC-0500): > How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the > siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or > "Guided -*" ? I don't think I've ever used Debian's, or any Debian derivative's, "guided". I can't

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 07:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 18:04 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: There's no need for separate home file systems to keep one installation from causing corruption to another's user settings. Simply do not reuse UIDs[1]. On your first, your Jessi

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 18:04 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> There's no need for separate home file systems to keep one installation from >> causing corruption to another's user settings. Simply do not reuse UIDs[1]. >> On your first, your Jessie probably has a user dan with UID 1

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/17 15:27, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 02:14 PM, David Christensen wrote: [...] Disk space is far cheaper than data loss.  Don't make the mistake of trying to save money through partition, LVM, file system, etc., gymnastics rather than simply buying another drive and doing it the

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 02:14 PM, David Christensen wrote: [...] Disk space is far cheaper than data loss. Don't make the mistake of trying to save money through partition, LVM, file system, etc., gymnastics rather than simply buying another drive and doing it the KISS way. Well I'm much in favor

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 02:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 10:26 (UTC-0500): David Christensen wrote: Dan Norton wrote: My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. Now

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Jochen Spieker
Dan Norton: > On 11/13/2017 03:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Dan Norton: >> >>> LVM reports as follows: >>> >>> dan@debian:/$ sudo vgdisplay -C >>>VG #PV #LV #SN AttrVSize VFree >>>debian-vg 1 5 0wz--n- 976.56g 938.20g >> >> You can vgreduce debian-vg ea

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 02:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 10:26 (UTC-0500): David Christensen wrote: Dan Norton wrote: My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. Now

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/17 07:26, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 01:10 AM, David Christensen wrote: 1.  Image, backup, and/or archive everything.  You will especially want to get a copy of the /etc tree onto a USB flash drive so you can see LVM, fstab, etc., configuration settings for mounting the Debian

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-13 10:26 (UTC-0500): > David Christensen wrote: >> Dan Norton wrote: >>> My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I >>> have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during >>> that year. Now I want to leave 8 in place an

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Joe
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of > directories. Please say more about how to mount the other > installation and share data. How to mount things in another volume > group? > Good advice so far, but to add a

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 11:07 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:01:27AM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of directories. Please say more about how to mount the other installation and share data. How to mount things in another v

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:01:27AM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of > directories. Please say more about how to mount the other installation and > share data. How to mount things in another volume group? > That would be as simple as cre

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 06:56 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:27:36PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. Now I want to leave 8 in place and

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 03:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Dan Norton: henny|i My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the sam

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/13/2017 01:10 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/12/17 19:27, Dan Norton wrote: My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install f

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:27:36PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have > used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. > Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the > same d

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread Jochen Spieker
Dan Norton: henny|i > My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have > used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. > Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the > same disk and switch back and forth at boot ti

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-12 Thread David Christensen
On 11/12/17 19:27, Dan Norton wrote: My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the same disk and switch back and for

Re: Debian 8 on HP ProLiant freezes: task * blocked for more than 120 seconds

2017-07-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:30:39PM +0200, rpr // wrote: > Hi! > > Recently I have installed Debian 8 (jessie) on a HP ProLiant DL360 G4 > server (2 x Xeon 3 GHz; RAM 3 GiB ECC DDR 333 MHz; HP Smart Array 6i; > RAID1 72 GB with 2 x 72 GB SCSI Ultra 320 HDD). For some reasons > upgrade to Debian 9 i

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