Re: Recommendations for data layout in case of multiple machines (Was: Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time)

2022-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 06:30:18PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > > It's a way of working that's served me well for about 25 years. It's > > hard to imagine going back to having data spread all over the place. > > What do you use as your file server? Is it running 24/7 or s

Recommendations for data layout in case of multiple machines (Was: Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time)

2022-06-10 Thread Linux-Fan
Andy Smith writes: Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 11:30:26AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > For Gene, he could conceivably just rename the RAID setup that he has > mounted > under /home to some new top level mountpoint. (Although he probably has > some > scripts or similar stuff that l

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-06-10 at 02:54, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:22:53 EDT David Wright wrote: >> >> On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 15:44:48 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: >>> Here is that partitioner menu snapshot, obtained by a network >>> ssh login, smunched to 81kb base-64'd. Showing that d-i d

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:22:53 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 15:44:48 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:04:15 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:46:12 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:22:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-06-09 02:59 (UTC-0400): > > > Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and make > > the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. > > This possibility became reality in antiq

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 15:44:48 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:04:15 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:46:12 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gen

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:04:15 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:46:12 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:03:52 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:31:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:34:28 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 08 Jun 2022 at 14:04:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:33:56 EDT rhkr

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:05:27 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 06:04:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:18:04 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 02:59:43AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 ED

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 11:30:26AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > For Gene, he could conceivably just rename the RAID setup that he has mounted > under /home to some new top level mountpoint. (Although he probably has some > scripts or similar stuff that looks for stuff in /home/ tha

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread rhkramer
I want to make a comment on this thread that is at least a little bit (maybe a lot) off point, it is more a suggestion on what might be a better way next time (although it could be done this time with a little work, I believe). Because I don't see a good place to put this comment in context, I'

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 06:04:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:18:04 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 02:59:43AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-040

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:46:12 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -040

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:31:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:34:28 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 08 Jun 2022 at 14:04:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:33:56 EDT rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Or exchange the memory card (if you

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:18:04 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 02:59:43AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 02:59:43AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 03:22:56 EDT Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-06-09 02:59 (UTC-0400): > > Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and > > make the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. > > This possibility became reality in antiquity.

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > Fourth: Use the text mode expert

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:34:28 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2022 at 14:04:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:33:56 EDT rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Or exchange the memory card (if you have an appropriate card reader > > > for (one of) your computer(s))

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2022-06-09 02:59 (UTC-0400): > Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and make > the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. This possibility became reality in antiquity. I never would have completed my first Debian installation attempt

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-0400), gene he

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Jun 2022 at 14:04:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:33:56 EDT rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Or exchange the memory card (if you have an appropriate card reader for > > (one of) your computer(s))? > > I do. but dragging the card out of the camera's, all of the

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Fourth: Use the text mode expert install. > > I have so far, but powered off to bail out when I couldn'

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > But I've put another drive in, that I want to

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-08 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:33:56 EDT rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, June 07, 2022 04:24:02 PM gene heskett wrote: > > The D-I needs to grow the capability to mount an otherwise unused > > drive, and store as png's, snapshots of the screen. That way no one > > can accuse me of copy/paste

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-08 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, June 07, 2022 04:24:02 PM gene heskett wrote: > The D-I needs to grow the capability to mount an otherwise unused drive, > and store as png's, snapshots of the screen. That way no one can accuse > me of copy/paste fibbing. I can also take screen shots but the list > server, even if I co

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2022-06-07 16:07 (UTC-0400): > The only way I know how to do that is take a screen shot with my camera. > But thats not possible when running the D-I cuz w/o gimp, its at least 5 > megs bigger than the server will accept. BTDT. You have lots of computers. Surely at lea

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 04:24:02PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi > > > system on too. > > > > > > >

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi > > system on too. > > > > > > Ideas as to how to proceed? > > Hi Gene, > > First: get yourself an is

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David Wright wrote: > > I was sitting here rereading the thread "had another crash, reboot > > usb > > failed, powerdown reboot usb failed" when this came in: > > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-04

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi system on > too. > > > Ideas as to how to proceed? > Hi Gene, First: get yourself an iso with all the firmware on to start with. Second: Disconnect all your FTDI an

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David Wright wrote: > I was sitting here rereading the thread "had another crash, reboot usb > failed, powerdown reboot usb failed" when this came in: > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > But I've put another drive in, that I want

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi system on > too. > > booted back to bullseye to id the drive, its this one: (from dmesg) > [ 18.508537] ata5.00: ATA-11: Samsung SSD 870 QVO 1TB, SVQ02B6Q, max > UDMA/133 > === > [ 18.508541] ata5.

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-07 Thread David Wright
I was sitting here rereading the thread "had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed" when this came in: On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi system on > too. > > booted back to bullsey

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: > - Mail original - > De: "Rodolfo Medina" > Envoyé: Samedi 20 Avril 2019 09:33:17 > Objet: Trying to install Audiveris > >> I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already >> installed it...? Please help. > > I've got a worki

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > didier gaumet writes: > >> Le 14/06/2019 à 20:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> [...] >>> Could not determine java version from '11.0.4'. >> [...] >> >> I would say you are probably (assuming you are still running Debian >> Unstable), you need to install openjdk-11-jdk and

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
didier gaumet writes: > Le 14/06/2019 à 20:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > [...] >> Could not determine java version from '11.0.4'. > [...] > > I would say you are probably (assuming you are still running Debian > Unstable), you need to install openjdk-11-jdk and to verify > tesseract-ocr and (tes

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/06/2019 à 20:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : [...] > Could not determine java version from '11.0.4'. [...] >From their website, I quote: "You also need a suitable Java SE Development Kit for a 64-bit environment (a 32-bit environment would not work, because of the deep learning library) Note:

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
didier gaumet writes: > Le 20/04/2019 à 09:33, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > >> I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already >> installed it...? Please help. > > What kind of difficulties? I'm following the steps described at: https://github.com/Audiveris/audiveri

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/4/19 3:43 am, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: I've got a working package of 5.1.0 in a testing phase. You can find the package (32 and/or 64 bits) here : https://download.tuxfamily.org/librazik/decepas/pool/main/a/audiveris/ I'm very interested about feedback if you test it. Thanks for

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already installed it...? Please help. >>> >>> I've got a working package of 5.1.0 in a testing phase. >>> >>> You can find the package (32 and/or 64 bits) here : >>> https://download.tu

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-23 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
>>> I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already >>> installed it...? Please help. >> >> I've got a working package of 5.1.0 in a testing phase. >> >> You can find the package (32 and/or 64 bits) here : >> https://download.tuxfamily.org/librazik/decepas/pool/main/a/a

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: > - Mail original - > De: "Rodolfo Medina" > Envoyé: Samedi 20 Avril 2019 09:33:17 > Objet: Trying to install Audiveris > >> I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already >> installed it...? Please help. > > I've got a worki

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-22 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
- Mail original - De: "Rodolfo Medina" Envoyé: Samedi 20 Avril 2019 09:33:17 Objet: Trying to install Audiveris > I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already > installed it...? Please help. I've got a working package of 5.1.0 in a testing phase. You c

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-04-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/04/2019 à 09:33, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris... Anyone has already > installed it...? Please help. What kind of difficulties? I do not use Audiveris myself, but there are instructions for building it from source on their wiki and into t

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Feb 2019 at 04:42:02 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/31/19, David Wright wrote: > >> If for whatever reason you disown that computer, you would just > >> delete that partition. Your own data you will keep on a USB pen or > >> microdrive. > > > > Something like that. I'd run badb

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-02-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/31/19, David Wright wrote: >> If for whatever reason you disown that computer, you would just >> delete that partition. Your own data you will keep on a USB pen or >> microdrive. > > Something like that. I'd run badblocks over the unencrypted partitions. >  Why? Do you mean the low level fo

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 00:30:40 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > use case: > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition Yes, the largest partition (/

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 23:36:27 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/29/19, David Wright wrote: > > However, the second method uses manual partitioning of the disks with > > gdisk, so I don't see why sda should not contain a(nother) FAT > > partition which is ignored. > > I don't see why eithe

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread David Christensen
On 1/30/19 11:05 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 19:51:06 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 30/01/2019 à 16:01, Brian a écrit : On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with no other drives connected (

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread David Christensen
On 1/30/19 11:03 AM, Thomas D Dial wrote: On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 06:42 -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you want a portable Debian installation, install Debian on a USB flash drive. To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with no other drives connected (so that GRUB does

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 06:42 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > use case: > > > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > > > 1) resize the larger, Windows pr

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 19:51:06 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/01/2019 à 16:01, Brian a écrit : > > On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with > > > no other drives connected (so that GRUB do

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/01/2019 à 13:45, Albretch Mueller a écrit : I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two partitions to install Debian encrypted, how

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/01/2019 à 16:01, Brian a écrit : On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with no other drives connected (so that GRUB does not create boot menu entries for other operating systems). (...) Wouldn't remo

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > use case: > > > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > > > 1) resize the larger, Window

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread David Christensen
On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: use case: Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition 2) install Linux encrypted in the created space, with

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 07:45:40AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two partitions to install Debian

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
use case: Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition 2) install Linux encrypted in the created space, with 3) what you need to start it up (the /root partiti

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/29/19, David Wright wrote: > However, the second method uses manual partitioning of the disks with > gdisk, so I don't see why sda should not contain a(nother) FAT > partition which is ignored. I don't see why either. Also, given the fact that so many, entirely fine computers (with 4+ Gibs

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 18:15:23 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-st

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-stretch.html > > https://gist.github.com/ppmathis/ccfbfce86484dc61834c1f1756

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 07:45:40AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a > fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests > which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two > partitions to install

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that >>> machine... and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the >>> machine is there permanently unused, waiting and hoping for next Debian >>> releases to work in the next - not too far - future

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > The symptoms described in this thread appear to happen already when GRUB > > is still in control and offers its boot menu. Or did i get this wrong ? Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I enter `Boot Manager', and there are two possible options: > Windows Boot Manager > EFI USB Device (Gene

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-11 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-11, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > So, as far as I understand, Debian live isos will also probably fail and all I > can do is waiting for Knoppix 8 iso image to be downloadable... Haven't been following the play by play, but maybe something here could be applicable to your case: https://gi

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I downloaded Knoppix and burned it onto DVD support, but unfortunately >> it seems no possible to boot the machine from DVD: no such >> option in start up boot menu. > > If it's Knoppix 7, then it will only boot via BIOS or EFI Legacy BI

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dejan Jocic wrote: > Knoppix can be used from USB too, with added bonus of heaving persistent > storage on it. Knoppix 7 can be installed onto USB stick like on a hard disk. But first you need to boot it from DVD. This booting and installation can possibly be done on some other computer. ht

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I downloaded Knoppix and burned it onto DVD support, but unfortunately > it seems no possible to boot the machine from DVD: no such > option in start up boot menu. If it's Knoppix 7, then it will only boot via BIOS or EFI Legacy BIOS Emulation. Knoppix 8 has boot entri

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet (was: Choose between amd64 and i386)

2017-06-11 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 11-06-17, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Felix Miata writes: > > > Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-10 1+:50 (UTC+0100): > > . > >> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that > >> machine... > >> and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the machine is there > >>

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

2017-06-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Felix Miata writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-10 1+:50 (UTC+0100): >> . >>> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that >>> machine... and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the >>> machine is there permanently unused, w

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-09-25 Thread albcares
2015-06-10 21:32 GMT+02:00 Siard : > David Guyot: > > Joel R. Frank: > > > Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some > > > help please? New to Debian. > > > > Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availab

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread Siard
David Guyot: > Joel R. Frank: > > Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some > > help please? New to Debian. > > Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability I successfully tried Wine to install the l

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread Jape Person
On 06/10/2015 10:43 AM, David Guyot wrote: Hello. Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some help please? New to Debian. Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability Regards. Yes, although Adobe

Re: Trying to install Adobe AIR

2015-06-10 Thread David Guyot
Hello. > Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I have some help > please? New to Debian. Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by Adobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability Regards. -- David Guyot Administrateur système, réseau et télécom / Sysad

Re: Trying to install nvidia-settings

2015-03-02 Thread James Allsopp
Ah, yes that's worked perfectly. Thanks James On 27 February 2015 at 16:46, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:34:03 + > James Allsopp wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to > use. > > I don't want to break anything or leave t

Re: Trying to install nvidia-settings

2015-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:34:03 + James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to use. > I don't want to break anything or leave the system in a bit of a mess. > Here's what happens, > james@Hawaiian:~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settin

Re: Trying to install a package on a Lenny system : what url do I need on my sources.list ?

2012-10-05 Thread Bernard
Brian wrote: On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 19:23:52 +0200, Bernard wrote: I still have an old Lenny system on which I wish to install the 'testdisk' package. 'apt-get install' says that it cannot get the necessary files. I know that Lenny is no longer maintained, but I suppose that there is a repo

Re: Trying to install a package on a Lenny system : what url do I need on my sources.list ?

2012-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://archive.debian.org/ may be helpful. That's where I found the intfiction-installer package and installed it on wheezy and got it working. hth. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Trying to install a package on a Lenny system : what url do I need on my sources.list ?

2012-10-03 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 19:23:52 +0200, Bernard wrote: > I still have an old Lenny system on which I wish to install the > 'testdisk' package. > > 'apt-get install' says that it cannot get the necessary files. > > I know that Lenny is no longer maintained, but I suppose that there > is a repositor

Re: trying to install libxml2-dev package and getting this error ??? help??

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 06:54, Joey L wrote: >(28 No space left on device) df -h to check that Maybe:- #apt-get clean first to make a little space, then:- df -h to see how much you've got free, then:- #apt-get -f install !do not agree to proceed! check the amount of space required - if it is less tha

Re: trying to install libxml2-dev package and getting this error ??? help??

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 02:54 PM, Joey L wrote: ate information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libxml2-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 774kB of archives. After this operation, 2724kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http:

Re: Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-31 Thread godo
'iptables -L' will list all rules so maybe somebody from the list will notice something. Tux:/home/lisi# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTP

Re: Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-30 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 30 May 2010 05:27:40 godo wrote: > Hi, Hi, Goran, and many thanks for your reply. > > But Firehol is complaining when I boot up that some > > config file or other that it uses is not yet configured. I don't have > > time to read the message properly as it flashes past, but it is marked

Re: Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-29 Thread godo
Hi, But Firehol is complaining when I boot up that some config file or other that it uses is not yet configured. I don't have time to read the message properly as it flashes past, but it is marked as an error during the booting process. Can you maybe find that message in /var/log/syslog or so

Re: Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-27 Thread deloptes
Lisi wrote: > worse. :-( And I still need to learn about firewalls. > > I would value, and be very grateful for, any advice on the best procedure > to follow - or what FM to read - _before_ I manage to kybosh my entire > system, rather than after. > > Thanks, > Lisi google earth required GL an

Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-27 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 01:44:44 godo wrote: > > It is, at least in part, due to a problem on my box. I had been > > installing Fedora on another box and when it finished I tried Google maps > > - and bingo! So it is neither me nor my router, but my box. I clearly > > have to solve this, but not t

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:44:44 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > Thanks for the suggestion, Brad. I like Google maps even better You're welcome, Stephen. Glad the idea proved useful to you. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread godo
It is, at least in part, due to a problem on my box. I had been installing Fedora on another box and when it finished I tried Google maps - and bingo! So it is neither me nor my router, but my box. I clearly have to solve this, but not tonight. Oh - and your URL opened perfectly on my box, St

PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 17:59:46 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 24 May 2010 17:31:50 Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > > How I fared: > > > > > > I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not > > > show me pictures of A. > > > > > > Ma

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 19:31:27 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > (...) > > > I downloaded, then: > > > > l...@tux:~$ cd /home/lisi/Peter/Google_Earth/ > > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ chmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin > > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ su > > No

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: (...) > I downloaded, then: > > l...@tux:~$ cd /home/lisi/Peter/Google_Earth/ > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ chmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ su No need to "su", just install with your common user. Greetings, --

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 17:31:50 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > How I fared: > > > > I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not show > > me pictures of A. > > > > Mapquest zoomed in on it beautifully, but had no pictures. T

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > How I fared: > > I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not show me > pictures of A. > > Mapquest zoomed in on it beautifully, but had no pictures. Two > different "maps", and I could turn the labels off under th

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 16:11:43 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:35 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny ... > > Lisi, > > This is not really an answer to your question, but rather > an alternative, especially since you are short of time.

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:19:32 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > Lisi wrote: >> I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny in order to be >> able to show a *** insurance inspector what the junction, >> where my husband ... > > Why not just use Google Maps? Even if the agent is els

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100 Lisi wrote: Hello Lisi, > I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny in order to be > able to show a *** insurance inspector what the junction, > where my husband Why not just use Google Maps? Even if the agent is elsewhere, you can give him

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 16:11:43 Stephen Powell wrote: > Both Yahoo and Mapquest have aerial photos available, down > to fairly decent resolution in most areas. Thanks, Stephen. Shall try both immediately. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:35 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny ... Lisi, This is not really an answer to your question, but rather an alternative, especially since you are short of time. Both Yahoo and Mapquest have aerial photos available, down to

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