Re: Unable to boot Debian live ISO on Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX (UEFI issues)

2025-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thanh Le Tran Ngoc wrote: > I tried many tools and ways to parse Debian 12 stable into bootable device Did you put a Debian Live ISO onto a USB stick ? If not USB stick: What else stores the live ISO ? Which ISO image did you download ? (Exact URL please.) > It only see boot devic

Re: Unable to boot Debian live ISO on Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX (UEFI issues)

2025-06-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.06.2025 20:39, Thanh Le Tran Ngoc wrote: Hi Debian team, I tried many tools and ways to parse Debian 12 stable into bootable device but motherboard cannot detect boot device. In other laptop like Dell, it can detect that boot without any issues. It only see boot device if I turn off

Unable to boot Debian live ISO on Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX (UEFI issues)

2025-06-01 Thread Thanh Le Tran Ngoc
Hi Debian team, I tried many tools and ways to parse Debian 12 stable into bootable device but motherboard cannot detect boot device. In other laptop like Dell, it can detect that boot without any issues. It only see boot device if I turn off secure boot, fast boot and turn on CSM support with

Re: Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-06-01 Thread Darac Marjal
e-art. Thanks I do not understand why a subscription to the announce list (https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/debian-announce) would not suffice. That's certainly something that could be asked during the installer. We already ask people if they'd like to join the Popularity Contes

Re: Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-05-31 Thread Bret Busby
On 1/6/25 03:50, John Scott wrote: Hi, I'm looking to help a couple people I know personally get up and running with Debian very soon, and I hope to help many more. Speaking from experience, my primary concern is that Debian on the desktop does not notify users at all when a new relea

Re: Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-05-31 Thread Dan Ritter
John Scott wrote: > I'm looking to help a couple people I know personally get up and running with > Debian very soon, and I hope to help many more. Speaking from experience, my > primary concern is that Debian on the desktop does not notify users at all > when a new release is

Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-05-31 Thread John Scott
Hi, I'm looking to help a couple people I know personally get up and running with Debian very soon, and I hope to help many more. Speaking from experience, my primary concern is that Debian on the desktop does not notify users at all when a new release is made or when the current relea

loss of debian access

2025-05-30 Thread Donald MacKinnon
Hello, I tried to send you an email. It looks as though have sent you a cancelled email not the one Ijust tried to send. I'll type the message I meant to end. Sorry if this has caused confusion. Please expect the correct email as soon as i get it retype dated 30May2025. Regards Donald MacKinn

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Xiyue Deng
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I >> > did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upg

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 05:52:40PM CEST, Timothy M Butterworth said: > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I > > > did a upgrade from

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I > > did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The > upgrade > > went through but after I

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I > did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The upgrade > went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries in KDE's > application launcher

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-27 Thread David
On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 23:37, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. > I did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The > upgrade went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries i

Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-27 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
Hello, Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The upgrade went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries in KDE's application launcher. I created a new account of the device a

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 5/26/25 13:02, David Wright wrote: On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: Now I connect a SATA to USB adapter cable to a 2.5" SATA SSD and install Debian onto the SSD: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb Can you boot it on both BIOS and EFI mac

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote: > > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I > > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I > > can use

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:11:50AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote: > > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I > > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I > > can use

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread riveravaldez
El lunes, 26 de mayo de 2025, Richard Owlett escribió: > On 5/26/25 3:32 AM, riveravaldez wrote: >> >> Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I >> need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I >> can use

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I can use in any desktop/laptop) with persistence and some way to upgrade it when next Stable gets published

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/26/25 3:32 AM, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I can use in any desktop/laptop) with persistence and some way to upgrade it when next Stable gets published

Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I can use in any desktop/laptop) with persistence and some way to upgrade it when next Stable gets published. Is there a standard procedure to achieve

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-25 Thread Csányi Pál
ons] source value 7 is obsolete and will be removed in a > > future release > > warning: [options] target value 7 is obsolete and will be removed in a > > future release > > warning: [options] To suppress warnings about obsolete options, use > > -Xlint:-options. > >

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
java > src/coffee/source/helloworld/R.java > warning: [options] source value 7 is obsolete and will be removed in a > future release > warning: [options] target value 7 is obsolete and will be removed in a > future release > warning: [options] To suppress warnings about obsolete optio

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-25 Thread Federico Kircheis
and I can't figure out how to get the dx command, because on my Debian Bookworm system there is no such command! Can this problem be solved so that I can access on my system only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian? dx is deprecated, you should use d8

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-25 Thread Csányi Pál
ease warning: [options] To suppress warnings about obsolete options, use -Xlint:-options. 3 warnings [ -e dex ] || mkdir dex /usr/lib/android-sdk/build-tools/debian/dx --dex --verbose --min-sdk-version=19 --output=dex/classes.dex src make: /usr/lib/android-sdk/build-tools/debian/dx: No such file or

Building an Android bundle (aab) with tools available in Debian

2025-05-23 Thread Federico Kircheis
Hello, I know there is already a similar thread, I did not want to hijack it, since the topic is slightly different. Debian currently provides all tools required for creating an apk (and I assume also an aar). Unfortunately it seems to be missing one tool for creating an aab: bundletool

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-22, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: >> On 2025-05-20, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk >> wrote: >> > >> > It seems you've encountered an obsolete wiki page (at the bottom it >> > says "AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps (las

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-22 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-20, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > > > It seems you've encountered an obsolete wiki page (at the bottom it > > says "AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps (last modified 2022-10-31 > > 14:03:10)" ). The subject is being

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-21, Csányi Pál wrote: > >> Please do update the wiki so that when I (and others) come to do the >> same (which I'm planning to do soon) we can benefit from your learning. "Update the wiki" can be interpreted in so many number of ways, particularly by the anal-retentive; FWIW I don't fi

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-20, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > It seems you've encountered an obsolete wiki page (at the bottom it > says "AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps (last modified 2022-10-31 > 14:03:10)" ). The subject is being discussed in another thread at the > mom

Re: problem with debian 12.11 and session control...

2025-05-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
f all these softwares reopening at > boot for good ? > > > Thanks by advance, > > Jeff > What Desktop Environment are you using? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀

problem with debian 12.11 and session control...

2025-05-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello folks ^^) I've a little problem that's bugging me : each time I reboot my machine I have all sort of stuff that open open (multiple Dolphin, firefox, etc...) but all this was closed thoroughly before reboot, and the '.config/session/' folder completely emptied. before, emptying this

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Csányi Pál
t írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., > K, 11:13): > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android > apps. > >>>> > >>>> I would follow the advice on these websites: > >>>> ht

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Alex King
i Pál wrote: Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 11:13): Hi, on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. I would follow the advice on these websites: https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools and https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps Followin

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Csányi Pál
ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 14:35): > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:01:34PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > > Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, > > 11:13): > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating s

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
ectly from > > https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools , and from there > > download a SDK. > > I have asked the help of an AI a month ago to let me compile a new > Android app on Debian with pure command line, these are the notes I > took: > > sud

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread debian-user
Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android > apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps > > F

Re: Installing android devenv in Debian 12

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:24:46PM +0300, Roland Mueller wrote: > At least for Ubuntu 22.04 android-sdk-platform-23 is in the list of > available packages. > > $ apt list android-sdk\* > ... > android-sdk-platform-23/jammy,jammy 6.0.1+r72-6 all > ... For Debian, it see

Re: Installing android devenv in Debian 12

2025-05-20 Thread Roland Mueller
At least for Ubuntu 22.04 android-sdk-platform-23 is in the list of available packages. $ apt list android-sdk\* ... android-sdk-platform-23/jammy,jammy 6.0.1+r72-6 all ... ti 20.5.2025 klo 13.16 Csányi Pál (csanyi...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:01:34PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 11:13): > > > > Hi, > > > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > > > I would follow the advice on thes

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Nicolas George
a SDK. I have asked the help of an AI a month ago to let me compile a new Android app on Debian with pure command line, these are the notes I took: sudo apt-get install google-android-cmdline-tools-19.0-installer google-android-emulator-installer sdkmanager "platforms;android-34" "buil

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 20/05/2025 09:01, Csányi Pál wrote: Well, then, what is the solution to this problem? It is important that I follow the goal stated on the above website: "building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian." You're really making

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Csányi Pál
Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 11:13): > > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/And

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Csányi Pál
Brieuc Desoutter ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 12:02): > > Hum how about installing Jetbrains Android studio (via the jetbrains toolbox > https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/) > > It will take care of downloading all the necessary tools, frameworks and > emulator for you… But I want to

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 01:02:35PM +0300, Brieuc Desoutter wrote: > Hum how about installing Jetbrains Android studio (via the jetbrains > toolbox > https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/) It has a funny license, though. Source is free, binaries aren't. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: P

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Brieuc Desoutter
Hum how about installing Jetbrains Android studio (via the jetbrains toolbox https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/) It will take care of downloading all the necessary tools, frameworks and emulator for you… On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 12:30 Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12

Android development tools on Debian [was: empty subject]

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:08:28AM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/Androi

Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread Csányi Pál
Hi, on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. I would follow the advice on these websites: https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools and https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps Following the latter web page, the following command cannot be executed on

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael Paoli
about with partitions. I've been using LVM since 1995 ... in fact before I was using it on Linux and Debian, so it's very stable, works very well, and has been around a very long time. Easier to set that up initially, rather than after-the-fact, but one can also change later. E.g. y

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-19 Thread Lee
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > > On May 19, 2025, Lee wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > >

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 19, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > >

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-19 Thread Lee
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > > > Since I know almost no shell scripting,

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread David Christensen
On 5/18/25 09:47, Default User wrote: Hi, OP again. 1) Regarding: "Its unclear to me from OP's message whether OP actually wants to solve the partition sizing issue or is just complaining about it and THEN asking for unrelated Debian 13 upgrade tips." I originally posted ask

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM Default User wrote: > Hi. > > I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64. > Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current > (2023) low-end Dell laptop. > Intel Core i3 processor. > 8Gb ram. > UEFI booting. > Internal nvme SS

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > > Since I know almost no shell scripting, the rsync usb drive A > > > to usb drive B copy is done with a simpl

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-18 Thread Lee
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > Since I know almost no shell scripting, the rsync usb drive A > > to usb drive B copy is done with a simple bash script consisting > > only of the rsync backup command, wi

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-18 Thread Default User
Thanks, Andy! I'll give it a try.

Debian 13 Trixie RC1 bug

2025-05-18 Thread Al Rice
The Windows Button on Panel no longer honors the "Show Windows From All Monitors" when it is checked OFF for at least the evolution email package.

Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Since I know almost no shell scripting, the rsync usb drive A  > to usb drive B copy is done with a simple bash script consisting > only of the rsync backup command, with options and parameters, but > without any code to verify t

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread Default User
Hi, OP again. 1) Regarding: "Its unclear to me from OP's message whether OP actually wants to solve the partition sizing issue or is just complaining about it and THEN asking for unrelated Debian 13 upgrade tips." I originally posted asking for general advice about upgradi

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:26:21PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-17, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > I found it easiest to just run the installer and say - use LVM, all files > > in one partition. > > Is there no rapidity cost on lower-end machines? > IME, there is not a cost that can be dete

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-17, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > I found it easiest to just run the installer and say - use LVM, all files > in one partition. Is there no rapidity cost on lower-end machines? > that give you a boot partition and everything else in one partition. > > It Just Works (for high values of

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 03:16:53PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 06:56:11PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > Concerning the points raised: > > I still did not see any statement of which concrete problems or issues > you did actually want to tackle. For example it is a w

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 06:56:11PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Concerning the points raised: I still did not see any statement of which concrete problems or issues you did actually want to tackle. For example it is a waste of time people giving advice about the upgrade route if you have deci

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Default User writes: > 1) sudo df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 8.7G 13G 41% / > /dev/nvme0n1p5 1.8G 140K 1.7G 1% /tmp Why not enable tmp.mount (tmpfs)? In most use cases, /tmp is not really utilized much – pointless to waste 2 GB of valua

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-16, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> /var can grow significantly over time due to logs, databases, and other >> persistent services, so I can understand why someone might put it on its >> own partition. > > When we're talking about

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread David Christensen
"root and home" solution would be ~12 GB and ~53 GB (respectively). I should have asked previously -- what is filling up /var? Have you fixed it? The following commands can remove obsolete Debian packages: # apt-get autoremove # apt-get autoclean 2) I could re-partition with C

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
xuser writes: > No virtualization?, my 15 year old dell e6500 has it. As I recall, Intel has played with virtualization support a lot. Disable virtualization on some low end CPUs just to piss people off. Or really, to "differentiate the different product lines" or some such marketing bullshit.

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:56:11 -0400 Default User wrote: > Fun fact: I use rsync to do backups to and external usb hard drive. If > the external drive is not connected, rsync will, without any notice, > proceed to create a backup directory under /media, with the name of > the unconnected backup dri

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Default User
/nvme0n1p1 511M 61M 451M 12% /boot/efi (df does not show nvme0n1p4, which is the swap partition, 1Gb.) /var, now at at 34% used, was just trimmed down from about 67%, several days ago. 2) I could re-partition with Clonezilla and/or use rsync/Gparted from a Debian Live usb stick. But I

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Andy Smith
ion sizing issue or is just complaining about it and THEN asking for unrelated Debian 13 upgrade tips. Trying to solve the partition size problem during an upgrade (not a reinstall) seems like hard work. If you really had to, I'd try that before or after upgrade. As regards the upgrade itself I

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Fri, 16 May 2025 11:50:41 +0100 Richmond wrote: > > Recently I created a virtual machine with qemu and virt-manager, and > unknown to me by default it creates the virtual disk in /var. As this > was not on its own partion but in the same as / it happily filled the > root partition and I got in

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread xuser
No virtualization?, my 15 year old dell e6500 has it. On Thu, 15 May 2025, Default User wrote: Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 17:30:51 -0400 From: Default User To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Preparing for Debian 13 Resent-Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 21:31:19 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Richmond
Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > It's a bit late at this point, but why did you split your installation > into different partitions, fixed partitions no less, on a laptop with a > single disk? That's the sort of thing you do with a server where you > have RAID, LVM, and possibly other advanced storag

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Joe
On Fri, 16 May 2025 09:34:30 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:30:51PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.  > > Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current  >

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:30:51PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Hi. > > I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.  > Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current  > (2023) low-end Dell laptop.  > Intel Core i3 processor.  > 8Gb ram. > UEFI booting. > Int

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Default User writes: > Since Debian 13 should soon be released, what should I be doing  > ahead of time to prepare for the upgrade? For me, upgrading is  > always a major hassle, so I try to make it as easy as possible. The release page is here: https://www.debian.org/release

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-15 Thread David Christensen
On 5/15/25 14:30, Default User wrote: Hi. I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64. Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current (2023) low-end Dell laptop. Intel Core i3 processor. 8Gb ram. UEFI booting. Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for mass storage. Partitions: nvme0n1 259:0

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:30:51PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Hi. > > I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.  > Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current  > (2023) low-end Dell laptop.  > Intel Core i3 processor.  > 8Gb ram. > UEFI booting. > Int

Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-15 Thread Default User
Hi. I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.  Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current  (2023) low-end Dell laptop.  Intel Core i3 processor.  8Gb ram. UEFI booting. Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for mass storage. Partitions: nvme0n1 259:00 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-15 Thread Steinar Bang
>>>>> Tim Woodall : >> What is Potato? Is that about 3.0, or 3.1? > Yes. It's 2.2 from 2000. Wow! Talk about blast from the past! Potato was my first debian version. I created a netboot floppy for potato and used it to install debian on several computers, downlo

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-11, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:44:09 PM -03 Thomas Dineen wrote: > [snip] >> >> This thread is a waist of time! >> > Thank you very much! I added this to my collection of sayings. It's a pretty hip saying. > Cheers > Eike KY4PZ / ZP5CGE > > >

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:48:55AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: For a futile attempt at correcting topic drift, I commented about laptops and their displays. So how many laptops do you have with a 16:10 aspect display and from which decade are they from? I know of exactly one model from this decade

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 06:29:58AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:55:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: This is simple: if you have a 7 year old machine, find someone throwing out a 4 year old machine, take it, and throw out the 7 year old machine instead. Refusing to ta

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-12, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/11/25 12:55, Michael Stone wrote: >> The issue isn't finding the availability of potentially >> useful machines that get trashed, the issue is that there isn't an >> efficient market for getting those machines to people who can use them. > > > In ye

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
; The issue isn't finding the availability of potentially useful machines > that get > > trashed, the issue is that there isn't an efficient market for getting > those > > machines to people who can use them. > I purchase refurbished equipment regularly. I use https:/

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > On 5/11/25 08:46, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >> It does seem like the slightly longer 16:10 screens are making a >> comeback, at least in the Thinkpad T16. > > Two of my monitors have that aspect ratio. Well, why not, let's ramble on about loosely related

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:55:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [...] > > The embedded cost in older machines has amortised over a longer > > period. > > What are you even talking about? Longer life: you divvy up the manufacturing (and shipping, and...) over a longer time. > > I don't follow yo

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread David Christensen
On 5/11/25 12:55, Michael Stone wrote: The issue isn't finding the availability of potentially useful machines that get trashed, the issue is that there isn't an efficient market for getting those machines to people who can use them. In years past, I bought used computers and components via c

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Thomas Dineen
Get a life! On 5/11/2025 12:37 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:44:09 PM -03 Thomas Dineen wrote: [snip] This thread is a waist of time! Thank you very much! I added this to my collection of sayings. Cheers Eike KY4PZ / ZP5CGE

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 04:37:08PM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:44:09 PM -03 Thomas Dineen wrote: > > This thread is a waist of time! > > > Thank you very much! I added this to my collection of sayings. Some people just like to explore the pant leg less travelled

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 05:58:43PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:02:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 10:55:07PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Clearly, there's a limit beyond which it doesn't make any sense any > more, but it usually makes sens

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:44:09 PM -03 Thomas Dineen wrote: [snip] > > This thread is a waist of time! > Thank you very much! I added this to my collection of sayings. Cheers Eike KY4PZ / ZP5CGE

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Felix Miata
in the end I just keep >>>>> using the T61. Next in thread, above is all Greg quoted. >> Some attribution is missing here. Who wrote about the X1 above? > Looks like Stephan Monnier. That's the problem apparently caused by absent attribution. Monnier wrote: <https:/

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Eben King
On 5/11/25 12:05, Felix Miata wrote: Eben King composed on 2025-05-11 10:02 (UTC-0400): On 5/11/25 Anssi Saari wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer batter

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Felix Miata
Eben King composed on 2025-05-11 10:02 (UTC-0400): > On 5/11/25 Anssi Saari wrote: >> Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my >>> old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer >>> battery life, much lighter, much s

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Eben King
On 5/11/25 08:46, Anssi Saari wrote: Stefan Monnier writes: FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer battery life, much lighter, much smaller pixels), it wasn't terribly faster, and it suffe

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-10, Thomas Dineen wrote: > In love with old hardware? > > Have you getting a rescue cat or dog? Get a life!!! I had two rescue cats, but when they died it hurt so much I don't want to go through that again.

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my > old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer > battery life, much lighter, much smaller pixels), it wasn't terribly > faster, and it suffered from a shorter screen, so in th

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-10, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> installing any even remotely current release of Debian (or any other >> kind of *nix) on hardware over a decade old probably doesn't have much >> practical benefit, and is more of an exercise in seeing >> what's possi

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