More effective searching (was: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?)

2025-06-30 Thread Jan Claeys
On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity > rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly > Boolean search? TIA "You" "can" "try" "putting" "double" "quotes" "around" "every" "word" AND "word

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 25, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: > > > Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: > > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 7:53 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 06:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd al

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so > > I can listen to a local stati

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd al

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 24, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > [https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 approaches my goal] > > > > That adafruit one is OK. I'm not a big fan of the MCX connector, since > > you're a bit tied to that

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread 🦓
Op di 24 jun 2025 om 04:05 schreef 🦓 : > arent sum chip antennae good enough to decode fm radio? didya ask > r...@gnu.org? (i was talking software radio hacking your libre foss bluetooth driver without any usb dongles (since wifi antennae have been observing colleagues thru te

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 06:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 > so I > can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record >

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debi

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I > can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread John Dow
> On 23 Jun 2025, at 13:10, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. >> I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so >> I can listen to a local stat

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so > I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record > as MP3 for listenin

Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as MP3 for listening at a more convenient time. My web search turned

Re: how to install debian to external USB ssd harddisk

2025-06-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/06/2025 01:09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not cooperate with my UEFI firmware. I think, installer assumes default use case with loaders for all OSes installed to the same EFI System Partition. Create another EFI System

Re: how to install debian to external USB ssd harddisk

2025-06-04 Thread David Christensen
On 6/4/25 11:09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: Dear advanced users and developers, Debian is making so big joy to Me that I want to install it to my USB external SSD harddisk. Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not cooperate with my UEFI firmware. So Grub is being

how to install debian to external USB ssd harddisk

2025-06-04 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Dear advanced users and developers, Debian is making so big joy to Me that I want to install it to my USB external SSD harddisk. Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not cooperate with my UEFI firmware. So Grub is being always installed automatically to my ATA

Re: Realtek Wireless USB Network Card and DKMS

2025-04-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Schumacher wrote: > Hello > I recently bought a BrosTrend 650Mbps Linux Compatible Wiki Adapter > (https://www.brostrend.com/products/ac5l) lsusb shows it to be a: > 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC > They seemed rather linux- and especially Debian-friendly and even have >

Re: Realtek Wireless USB Network Card and DKMS

2025-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
you gave indicates that the device has been supported since kernel 6.2 and on Debian 11. https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:0bda-c811 You may need a backported kernel. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Realtek Wireless USB Network Card and DKMS

2025-04-15 Thread Hans
Hi Stefan, I treid another way: First downloaded only the package from your source. > 2025-04-15 13:52:39 URL:https://linux.brostrend.com/rtl8821cu-dkms.deb > [4035666/4035666] -> "rtl8821cu-dkms.deb" [1] Then just installed it using dpkg -i rtl8821cu-dkms.deb This built automatically the

Realtek Wireless USB Network Card and DKMS

2025-04-15 Thread Stefan Schumacher
Hello I recently bought a BrosTrend 650Mbps Linux Compatible Wiki Adapter (https://www.brostrend.com/products/ac5l) lsusb shows it to be a: 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC They seemed rather linux- and especially Debian-friendly and even have a web page just for Linux: https://li

Re: [slowly OT, was: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?]

2025-03-16 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-16, wrote: > >> > Not yet, I'm in the UK and the boat is in France, I'll be back there >> > in a couple weeks. :-) >> That's the dream, man, to leisurely navigate those French canals in the >> spring or summer. Good sailing to you. > I used to cycle them, also a dream. And waved to t

[slowly OT, was: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?]

2025-03-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 01:33:08PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: [...] > > Not yet, I'm in the UK and the boat is in France, I'll be back there > > in a couple weeks. :-) > > That's the dream, man, to leisurely navigate those French canals in the > spring or summer. Goo

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-16 Thread Greg
t day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it has a >> > USB-A plug to go straight into my laptop and it has the second lens on >> > the side which seemed to me a good idea when poking around under the >> > engine on the boat. >> >> And did you fi

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-15 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: > > > > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras > > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon > > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Thu Mar 13 16:49:25 2025 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > On 3/13/25 12:15 PM, David Wright wrote: > >> OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the >> context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > Why would anybody find a colonoscopy scary? > > Just geek o

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-15 Thread debian-user
Chris Green wrote: > I don't want to look at the outside of the hull, I want to look > inside right down in the bilges under the engine. This is quite > inaccessible and one of the cameras that are advertised mostly as > 'endoscopes' would make looking around down there more possible. > > As I

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-15 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: > > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it has a > USB-A plug to go straight

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-15 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600 > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB e

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 14 March 2025 08:28:30 am debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > > I don't want to look at the outside of the hull, I want to look > > inside right down in the bilges under the engine. This is quite > > inaccessible and one of the cameras that are advertised mostly

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, Chris Green wrote: > > As I said before the only reason I used the word endoscope was that > it's the best way to actually get hits on the type of device I'm > after. Another search term that can work is 'inspection camera'. The only other term I've managed to discover would be "b

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: >> On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: >> > >> > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the >> > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". >> >> I've never come across one for the general pub

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, Chris Green wrote: > Greg wrote: >> On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: >> > >> > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the >> > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". >> >> I've never come across one for the general public, but then it

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 3/13/25 12:15 PM, David Wright wrote: OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". Why would anybody find a colonoscopy scary? Just geek out and enjoy the guided tour! -- JHHL

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would > never have occurred to me to search

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would > never have occurred to me to sear

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would never have occurred to me to search for an endoscope to inspec

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 13 Mar 2025 at 15:46:17 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. Most of the webcams I see are too bulky, probably because of their mountings and microphone spacing. > The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Joe wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600 > Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras > > > so I can poke around

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. I've recently > > The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary). When searching for one to buy it's necessary as otherwise you get loads of ordinary webcams which aren't what I want. --

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. I've recently The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones shouldwork OK?

2025-03-13 Thread gene heskett
On 3/12/25 22:43, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + Chris Green wrote: I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal boat. A little bit of research suggests that most will

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-12 14:26, Chris Green wrote: I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal boat. A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they claim to work with a 'PC

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + Chris Green wrote: > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so > I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal > boat. > > A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so > I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal > boat. > > A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they > claim to work with a 'P

Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-12 Thread Chris Green
I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal boat. A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they claim to work with a 'PC' as that implies they use UVC to communic

Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/12/2024 04:56, Roger Price wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead of USB3 or vice versa)? Try full power cycle, not just reboot. All the 10 USB ports on my T5820 are specified as USB 3.1 Gen 1.  I always

Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surplus. I rebuilt the USB stick using just /dev/sdj . On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Am I right that you have inte

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Roger Price wrote: To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The &quo

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Roger Price wrote: > To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and > built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command > dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surpl

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2024 15:45, Roger Price wrote: So I re-inserted the USB installation stick to redo the installation. This took me to the GRUB command line. Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB stick? Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Roger Price
The "linux" command still produces the "file not found" error message. It looks like GRUB is found and started. But then somethig goes wrong. To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i proposed for booting from the now reluctant USB stick: > > grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet > > grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz > > grub> boot Roger Price wrote: > I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux'

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Does the USB stick yield the proper checksum when inspected on a running GNU/Linux system ? Will check. grub> cat (hd0,msdos2)/efi/debian/grub.cfg set prefix-($root)/boot/grub I see "=" instead of "-" in this file when t

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:45:59 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: > But I did create a > small FAT32 partition to be mounted on /boot/efi if one day I needed > it. Which option in the installer's partitioner did you use, one of the FAT options, or the EFI one? The latter will create a partition with

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:50:02 + Joe wrote: > So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found. > I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory > did not contain a Microsoft directory containing bootmgfw.efi. > Previously, it had been happy to boot f

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/24 10:50, Joe wrote: I would add that many modern computers are almost hardwired for Windows. ... So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found. I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory did not contain a Microsoft directory containing

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Joe
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:39:22 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote: > > I have a Dell T5820 workstation.  I had already installed Debian 12 > > in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a > > USB memory stick.  I left

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote: I have a Dell T5820 workstation.  I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick.  I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation.  All went well - a very smooth

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Ahem, well, it is of course no SSD, just a harddrive with SATA port. > And I got this one from a heritage. Oohhh. big disappointment! Stefan

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Hans
Ahem, well, it is of course no SSD, just a harddrive with SATA port. And I got this one from a heritage. Hans Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2024, 16:10:02 CET schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5" SSD. > > Really? A 3½" SSD? Where did you find such a bea

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5" SSD. Really? A 3½" SSD? Where did you find such a beast? I'm curious to know the make/model. Also curious what made you choose to buy such a thing instead of the more common 2½" SSDs. Stefan

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Hans
single 3,5" SSD. Have a nice week. Best Hans Am Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2024, 21:14:42 CET schrieb David Christensen: > On 12/15/24 07:30, Hans wrote: > > I had this one until about 14 days ago, when my Lenovo T520 dies, which > > was > > the only one with eSATA con

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Roger Price wrote: > Device hd0: Filesystem type ISO9660 - Label 'Debian 12.7.0 amd64 n' > [...] > So it looks as if hd0 is the installation USB stick. Indeed (unless you have a hard disk with an ISO 9660 filesystem around the disk's partitions). > I don't

Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Roger Price
I have a Dell T5820 workstation. I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick. I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation. All went well - a very smooth install. A few weeks later the

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-15 Thread David Christensen
On 12/15/24 07:30, Hans wrote: I had this one until about 14 days ago, when my Lenovo T520 dies, which was the only one with eSATA connector. That sounds like a "USB/eSATA combo" port. My Dell Latitude E6520 has one. I use this cable to connect a 2.5" SATA drive: https://w

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-14 Thread David Christensen
On 12/14/24 12:02, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I was unaware, that a native installed linux is capable from booting at the USB-port! I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native means, the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from it. This was nice! Thus some

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native means, > the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from it. > [...] > 1. Is this is normal standard behaviour and can this be confirmed? This depends on the settings of your comput

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-14 Thread eben
On 12/14/24 15:02, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was unaware, that a native installed linux is capable from booting at > the USB-port! > > I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native > means, the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot fro

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 09:02:45PM +0100, Hans wrote: I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native means, the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from it. This was nice! Thus some questions appeared: 1. Is this is normal standard behaviour and can this be

Boot from USB?

2024-12-14 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I was unaware, that a native installed linux is capable from booting at the USB-port! I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native means, the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from it. This was nice! Thus some questions appeared: 1. Is

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-07 Thread Chris Green
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 17:17:44 (+), Chris Green wrote: > > I have found how to get it to install, I removed the other (SATA SSD) > > disk drive. It now boots successfully, phew! > > Good. > > > I've no idea why that second drive breaks things. I installed it when > >

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 17:17:44 (+), Chris Green wrote: > I have found how to get it to install, I removed the other (SATA SSD) > disk drive. It now boots successfully, phew! Good. > I've no idea why that second drive breaks things. I installed it when > I was still running xubuntu 24.04 and

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
an Acer laptop like it -- the only way to update the BIOS/UEFI is through Windows. My workaround is a SSD with a USB interface loaded with Windows. It is essentially the Windows2Go drive. It was created using Rufus and Windows 10. I boot the laptop to the thumb drive, install the BIOS/UEFI update

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
I have found how to get it to install, I removed the other (SATA SSD) disk drive. It now boots successfully, phew! I've no idea why that second drive breaks things. I installed it when I was still running xubuntu 24.04 and that OS could see the drive OK. I actually copied the whole of my old (xu

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
I have found how to get it to install, I removed the other (SATA SSD) disk drive. It now boots successfully, phew! I've no idea why that second drive breaks things. I installed it when I was still running xubuntu 24.04 and that OS could see the drive OK. I actually copied the whole of my old (xu

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chris Green wrote: > > (proc) (memdisk) (lvm/q957--vg-swap_1) (lvm/q957--vg-root) (hd0) > > (hd0,apple2) (hd0,apple1) (hd0,msdos2) (hd1) (hd1,gpt1) (hd2) > > (hd2,msdos5) (hd2,msdos1) David Wright wrote: > So hd0 is the USB stick. Looks like that. Apple Partition Map

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Felix Miata
PCs no longer "require" Windows to upgrade a BIOS. Instead, most offer an assortment of possible methods, one of which is booting into BIOS setup utility that will find a new BIOS on a FAT formatted USB stick. Some are reputedly capable of getting the new BIOS directly off the internet.

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 11:19:50AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > If I boot from the USB stick (isohybrid image) in Legacy mode then it > > all **appears** to work, installation completes, but then the system > > won't boot. > > What kind of boot loader did you i

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread David Wright
ntinues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > > > > today. > > > > > > > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian > > > > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB >

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If I boot from the USB stick (isohybrid image) in Legacy mode then it > all **appears** to work, installation completes, but then the system > won't boot. What kind of boot loader did you install? `grub-efi`, `grub-pc`, something else? Does your Debian install's boot fail

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread David Wright
> today. > > > > > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian > > > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB > > > stick in UEFI mode it just takes me to the grub prompt. > > > > It may help

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 09:09:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 12:36:18 (+), Chris Green wrote: > > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > > today. > > > > I can't get the USB Installation stic

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 12:36:18 (+), Chris Green wrote: > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > today. > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boo

(SOLVED) Re: USB device not mounting

2024-11-04 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/3/24 15:13: I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) I am an idiot (although somewhat in my defence, there is no mention

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:53:02AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I suspect that this is why, when I boot from the USB stick in BIOS > > compatibility mode the resulting installation doesn't work. > > Last time I did an install on a UEFI machine (most of my machines ar

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:31:41AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 12:36 (UTC): > > > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > > today. > > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I suspect that this is why, when I boot from the USB stick in BIOS > compatibility mode the resulting installation doesn't work. Last time I did an install on a UEFI machine (most of my machines are too old, and of the two that aren't, one is running Coreboot 🙂), I found

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 12:36 (UTC): > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > today. > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB &

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 12:36 (UTC): > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > today. > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB &

Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Chris Green
This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier today. I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB stick in UEFI mode it just takes me to the grub prompt. I suspect that th

Re: USB device not mounting

2024-11-03 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Sunday, 3 November 2024 19:13:52 -03 D. R. Evans wrote: > I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I > can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. > (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) > > Once plugged in, lsusb

USB device not mounting

2024-11-03 Thread D. R. Evans
I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) Once plugged in, lsusb shows it: [ZB:~] lsusb ... Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0483:a1de

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

2024-10-31 Thread tomas
#x27;m missing is the automatic > > > mounting. > > > > > > ... and that's just in settings. While I'm here what's the difference > > > between:- > > > > > > Mount removable drives when hot-plugged > > > and:- > > >

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

2024-10-31 Thread Chris Green
ust in settings. While I'm here what's the difference > > between:- > > > > Mount removable drives when hot-plugged > > and:- > > Mount removable media when inserted > > A USB stick is a removable drive. A DVD is removable media. > So I gues

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

2024-10-31 Thread Dan Ritter
erence > between:- > > Mount removable drives when hot-plugged > and:- > Mount removable media when inserted A USB stick is a removable drive. A DVD is removable media. -dsr-

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

2024-10-31 Thread Chris Green
> > I get the usual messages at the Kobo end and fdisk shows me /dev/sdc > > but no file system appears. In dmesg I see:- > > > > [210397.607735] /dev/scd: Can't open blockdev > > [210446.971129] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 5 > > [210

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

2024-10-30 Thread Dan Ritter
nd and fdisk shows me /dev/sdc > but no file system appears. In dmesg I see:- > > [210397.607735] /dev/scd: Can't open blockdev > [210446.971129] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 5 > [210447.028493] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronizing SCSI cache > [210447.0

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