Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition

2018-09-04 Thread Albin
ied with the GPG keys. I also ran the tool inside the Debian installer for verifying the installation media. The image I use is the netinstaller for Stretch (version 9.5). Should I be able to install Debian Stretch without a separate /boot partition? Thanks in advance! Regards, Albin

Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition

2018-09-04 Thread Albin
tions (just try asking your search engine of choice for debian "grubd-install dummy"). E.g.: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865417 Thanks for the tip! I'll read trough them and see if there's a solution. I'll also test to change some settings in BIOS. Regards, Albin

Re: RANT: Virtual filesystems are getting out of control

2016-05-19 Thread Albin Otterhaell
J Mo: > -->df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > udev 16441312 0 16441312 0% /dev > tmpfs 3290364 96683280696 1% /run > /dev/sda2114287812 44945248 63514008 42% / > tmpfs

Libvirt in Stretch?

2017-01-04 Thread Albin Otterhäll
Hi! It seems that the package `libvirt-bin` has been deprecated in Stretch (it isn't available via the repositories). I can't find any documentation regarding virtualization using KVM in Stretch. What's the replacement for `libvirt-bin`? Thanks in advance! Regards, Albin Otterhäll

Re: Libvirt in Stretch?

2017-01-04 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 01/04/2017 09:05 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > See this post from November: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00518.html > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar > Burchardt"@43-1.org> wrote: > >> Albin Otterhä

Why isn't `dirmngr` installed by default in Stretch?

2017-01-27 Thread Albin Otterhäll
Hi! Why isn't the package `dirmngr` installed by default in Stretch? The package is required if you want to add external repositories' GPG keys. Regards, Albin

Where can I find the bugs for a package in stable?

2016-02-29 Thread Albin Otterhäll
Iceweasel has crashed two times in a day, and I would like to report it (or read the bug report if it's already reported). But I can only find the bug-list for Sid. Where to find the currently active bugs for stable?

Re: Where can I find the bugs for a package in stable?

2016-03-01 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/01/2016 08:52 AM, Shin Ice wrote: > Related to Iceweasel: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=Iceweasel I did find that page before I asked my question, but it's the buglist for unstable. But when I checked the URL i saw that you could change "unstable" to "

Re: Where can I find the bugs for a package in stable?

2016-03-01 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/01/2016 08:57 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Have a look at: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=iceweasel;dist=stable > > Now: how did I find out? Well, I first went to > > https://bugs.debian.org/ > > entered iceweasel and noticed the ";dist=unstable" at the end

Re: XFS on root

2016-03-01 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 02/27/2016 06:16 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > [---] use ext2 for /boot [---] Why use Ext2 and not Ext 3 or 4 for /boot?

Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
What is the current stability of Debian testing (Stretch)? I know it had quite a lot of stability issues some months ago, and wondering if they are resolved yet.

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 01:45 PM, Michael wrote: > Ive been using it for the last few months, and have had no major issues > that where not of my own causing.. :) Good! According to the Debian wiki it's recommended to do a "minimal" installation. I assume it's just debian with all the "extra" (Gnome and pri

Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
the kernel images on /boot. Canonical says that 100MiB is minimum for Ubuntu's EFI partition, and 200MiB is recommended. And on a related note: Does debian-installer support *iB units? Thanks in advance! Regards, Albin

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 02:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing > what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will > have a very bad time using Testing, because there will be a day where an > innocent "apt dist-upgrade" remov

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 07:42 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > There is no ratio. 500 MB is the generally recommended size for the EFI > system partition even though the Debian GRUB EFI bootloader needs much > less, and 250 MB for /boot is one of the questionable arbitrary choices > that the guided mode does for

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:05 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > [---] if you wanna use systemd-boot your kernel and initramfs [---] What does systemd-boot and initramfs do? And how much space does they take?

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:24 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > 20MB for storing both files for one kernel version So a EPA partition with 128MiB is more than enough?

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:37 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > ​I believe you mean ESP (EFI System Partition) Haha, you are correct. :) > [...] this limit will grow with time with initramfs and vmlinuz getting bigger [---] Doesn't old kernel images get removed after some time?

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:57 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > ​They are on a "default" use case, but if you're using systemd-boot you are > responsible for configuring a nice way to keep only the last kernel images > on the ESP (it's not hard to do)​ and automagically update it. > > If you're using the Debian's defa

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/03/2016 12:55 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Basically, there are lots of > reported (real and potential) issues with smaller sizes, so we've > picked a larger size by default for the guided partitioning. I wasn't aware of the potential problems. Funny that Ubuntu's documentation still recommen

How to clear notifications?

2016-03-03 Thread Albin Otterhäll
How can I clear the notifications in Gnome? I still want them, but be able to clear them. I've tried to restart gnome shell (Alt+F2, input "r", and press enter), but they are still there. The notifications comes from the clock app.

Re: How to clear notifications?

2016-03-03 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/03/2016 02:43 PM, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > How can I clear the notifications in Gnome? I still want them, but be > able to clear them. I've tried to restart gnome shell (Alt+F2, input > "r", and press enter), but they are still there. The notifications comes > from

Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Albin Otterhäll
(+1MiB to last block) 3. Encrypt the partition with LUKS. 4. Create physical volume, volume group and a logical volume spanning the whole partition. 4. Create EXT4 file system on logical volume. 6. Create file 'foo' and write to it with: # dd bs=4M if=/dev/urandom of=foo status=progress > 236059623424 bytes (236 GB, 220 GiB) copied, 13192.2 s, 17.9 MB/s > dd: error writing 'foo': No space left on device > 56284+0 records in > 56283+0 records out > 236072116224 bytes (236 GB, 220 GiB) copied, 13192.8 s, 17.9 MB/s Have you any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks in advance! Regards, Albin Otterhäll

Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Albin Otterhäll
e whole partition. 4. Create EXT4 file system on logical volume. 6. Create file 'foo' and write to it with: # dd bs=4M if=/dev/urandom of=foo status=progress > 236059623424 bytes (236 GB, 220 GiB) copied, 13192.2 s, 17.9 MB/s > dd: error writing 'foo': No space left on device > 56284+0 records in > 56283+0 records out > 236072116224 bytes (236 GB, 220 GiB) copied, 13192.8 s, 17.9 MB/s Have you any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks in advance! Regards, Albin Otterhäll

Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 05/11/2016 07:41 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:20:16PM +, Albin Otterhäll wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The problem is that the installer crash at th

Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

2016-05-14 Thread Albin Otterhäll
RAM? Note that the primary OS only should act as a hypervisor. I will primarily use a Debian VM (i.e. Debian VM on Debian), but I also want to be able to run a Windows 10 VM (Windows VM on Debian). It's not necessary for both VMs to run simultaneously. -- Regards, Albin

Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

2016-05-14 Thread Albin Otterhäll
Martin Read: > On 14/05/16 10:05, Albin Otterhäll wrote: >> I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop (with a >> Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using KVM on Debian as >> my hypervisor. >> >> But I can't find any

Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
"exists" after I've disconnected the computer. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! -- Best regards, Albin Otterhäll -- Bästa hälsningar, Albin Otterhäll

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 22:06 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-02-26, Albin Ludvig Otterhäll wrote: > > I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is > > connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop > > screen is b