Re: Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR

1999-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
5 (maybe even 6) disc set of Debian only; there's no need to pester them - they're on the job already. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three termi

Re: Re[2]: The vexed 2-CD problem...

1999-07-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
d working? Exactly what problems have you had? It works fine for me and lots of other people as far as I can tell, but admittedly I cheated in learning how it works - I helped write it... Please, if you have any problems let me know. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL P

Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
pping Official Debian CDs, then they are using >our CD images, so they should be just as reliable as anyone else. And >according to Kenneth, that is exactly what htey are doing. That is exactly what they are doing, yes. I helped them with the image stage... -- Steve McIntyre, Ca

Re: CD Image...

1999-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ary section 1, bootable where possible 2. Main binary section 2 (bootable on i386) Contrib (binary & source) 3. Main source section 1 Project 4. Main source section 2 The source CDs are the same for all architectures, meaning we have a total of 10 CD images for the 4 architectures.

Re: Help! Debian install

1999-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
[Removed Ian from cc:] On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Nick wrote: >On Fri 05 Mar, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Nick wrote: >> >> >> Hmmm. Actually, thinking again, I had a similar problem myself a while >> >> back when I first installed Debian, and I

Re: debian-cd for slink ?

1999-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ contains some information about slink_cd, my package to build CD images for slink. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/>My PC page "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky,

Re: debian-cd for slink ?

1999-03-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ralf Bergs writes: >On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:02:55 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>>I want to make Debian CDs, but I cannot find debian-cd package in slink >>>or potato. >[...] >>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ >> >>contains some in

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
US. Cheapbytes announced the nonfree section, but they do not >> ship nonUS. > >try www.linuxmall.com >www.linuxcentral.com Or check out the CD vendors page on www.debian.org... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.or

Re: Official CD question

1999-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
include contrib, but not non-free or non-US. If you want to make your own from a mirror you'll need slink_cd from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you

Re: Debian CDROMS

1999-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
ectures should work standalone too... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his foot up on the desk so he can get a better aim." [ seen in ucam.chat ] Finger for PGP key

Re: How do I make CD's?

1998-12-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
initial installation") Try reading the debian-cd list - that's where we are discussing exactly this issue at the moment. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his foot up on the desk so he can get a better aim." [ seen in ucam.chat ] Finger for PGP key

Re: debian-cd package broken? (hamm)

1998-12-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
abend of the make. > [snip] >/home/ftp/pub/debian/tmp/main/install/resc1440.bin (resc1440-fast.bin) >Unable to open disc image file >make: *** [binary-i386] Error 1 Hmmm. Check on where the output iso image should be going and make sure you have write permissions there. I'd guess yo

Re: nas-lib

1999-01-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
tp site. My local copy is currently: hammer:~/debian/nas$ md5sum nas-lib_1.2p5-7_i386.deb d3d548d5a4da01ddb4f9278ee6cef5d1 nas-lib_1.2p5-7_i386.deb hammer:~/debian/nas$ ls -al nas-lib_1.2p5-7_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 steveusers 54818 Aug 28 00:15 nas-lib_1.2p5-7_i386.deb -- Steve McI

Re: Alsa on 2.2?

1999-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
o problems here, just compiled out of the box and worked for me last night... Which version(s) are you using? -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/>My PC page "Can't keep m

Re: alsa in slink setup

1999-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
So, whenever I try to run > >modprobe snd-audiodrive1688 > > I ( obviously, since there are no dependencies in > /lib/modules/2.0.36/modules.dep ) get an error. > > How can I fix that? Is there some command that I > neglected? Run "depmod&q

Re: CD image: *.raw --> *.cif?

1999-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
y Adaptec (and apparently Adobe); in fact, it's a wrapper format that can contain proper ISO images. Try some better (i.e. more compatible) software... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/>My PC page "Can

Re: maintainer of CD images

1999-04-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
mages, so I can remind him to update >the image. There are only very minor changes that have been made from 2.1r0 to 2.1r2; there are bigger changes planned for 2.1r3 and there will be updated CD images to go with that... -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.c

Re: Q: multi-cd method.

1999-05-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
M drive. There should be a file called README.multicd on each of your CDs which says this... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of th

Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
ver need it. The non-US and non-free sections are not available on official Debian CDs due to their licensing problems, but you may be able to find people who will sell you CD containing them. and "local" is a space left for any _local_ Debian packages that a user may have downloaded/built the

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
ut to fix my link; I only just got listed a week ago and I've been at Comdex so I've not had a chance to put a web page up yet. If people email me about Debian CDs I am producing them. Please don't pull the link just yet... -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Quake maps

1998-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
ry running it under strace and see where it looks for them... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his foot up on the desk so he can get a better aim." [ seen in ucam.chat ] Finger for PGP key

Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard

1998-05-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
#x27;t work when I switch to >another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... I think your problem here is that the kernel keeps state for each VC independently, including the state of the keyboard LEDs. You may be able to get round this by running a script as root t

Re: rebuilt kernel with sbpcd

1997-03-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
with a Panasonic CR-562B. Yes, you should be looking for the proprietary interface CD-ROM section: "CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)" -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~

RC5 challenge up again

1997-04-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
A new home, with a sensible proxying setup: http://bovine.st.hmc.edu/ -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/>My PC page "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +--

Re: mac software

1997-05-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Executor. The (Japanese) home page appears to be http://www.alpha-city.co.jp/hideaki/Executor/ HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Unix world's best mod player http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/mikmod/>MikMod "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky

Re: 3.1_r0a

2005-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
d "3.1_r0a". Just for curiosity, what >does that "a" mean? It's the second build of the CDs, needed to fix a bug in the first build. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg8.html for more information. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Debian Sarge DVD Download Limit?

2005-06-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
le support at either end. Even if the tools at your end are 64-bit capable, the apache on ftp.ie.debian.org may not be. I'd recommend trying jigdo/bittorrent instead if you can. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no sensat

syslogd woes

1996-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
... Any ideas, anyone? -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky," [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..." Churchill Collegehttp://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~93sam/>my home page Cambridge, U

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
ler caused major filesystem corruption *to the other drive on the interface* when I tried to get it to work. At least I can still use it by moving it on to another controller the BIOS doesn't know about and rely on Linux to auto-detect it. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary "Can't keep

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Actually why is the maintainer so silent? > >Is dselect still maintained? AFAIK Ian is currently busy finishing his PhD thesis, but has promised he'll do some work on dselect soon. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK

Re: Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound card, How to make work with debian ?

1997-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
istribution is isapnptools, which >will allow you to configure your Plug'n'Pray device. I'm going to try and package the Ultralib for Debian sometime soon - I'm just waiting for the next stable release. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bash Function File

1997-01-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
bject to the -norc and -rcfile options): if ~/.bashrc exists, source it. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] CUWoCS Honorary Vice-Chair-Thing Cthulhu - Why vote for the Lesser Evil? "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky,

Re: XFree86 3.2A?

1997-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
n the release notes to install the entire new release. The new S3 server also fixes a S3-968 bug that showed up in xfig where text display became corrupt. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also available from [

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
. Something like the internal commandfor xcdroast perhaps, >since it has worked in the same case? dd is your friend: dd if= of=filename.iso -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also available from [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Can't keep my eyes from the circling s

Re: Porting YTalk to Windows

2000-04-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
any efforts to port it to windows, but I must admit that I haven't really looked. My first (obvious) suggestion would be to talk to the upstream maintainer, Roger Espel Llima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He's definitely approachable... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [

Re: ...diald.fifo -- can I use this...?

2000-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ve a logging program here that basically does: rm -f /tmp/diald.log mkfifo -m 600 /tmp/diald.log cat /var/run/diald/diald.fifo -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his foot up on the desk so he can get a better aim." [ seen in ucam.chat ] Finger for PGP key

Re: ProFTPd + mod_LDAP + OpenLDAP

2002-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ome help from the developers) to work out. Now it all works fine for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They say that you play Cambridge twice - once on the way up and once on the way down. It's nice to be back..." --- Armstrong & Miller

Re: 3.0r1 vs 3.0r2

2004-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
r r1 CDs with r2 versions or (easier) get hold of an r2 update CD. The update CDs contain just the changes needed to get to r2 from a previous version of woody. HTH... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
December. They should ave propagated to mirrors by now; where are you looking? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Z0Bk EBPUT0n1hvbwyJpCFVf7Dtc= =VclH -END PGP SIGNATURE- is the contents of the file MD5SUMS-UPDATE from nonus.cdimage.d.o. Make sure that you have the r2.01 version of the update image - the initial r2 image was broken. >Thanks, and sorry for all the hassle. No problem. -- Steve McIntyre, C

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
in woody used the "mail" user just fine for most people... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- L

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ad to warnings; repeated bad behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders. If you're trying to label that as "politically correct" then I think you may need to change your expectations. The "principles of open source" do not include a free pass to b

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >As Steve did not send this mail to you, I would not take it personally. Exactly, thanks. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management c

Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
er be altered (or read back). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Access to files in wiki.debian.org.

2021-09-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
with my 1P address and the names of the files I need. I >do however find it passing strange that while the wiki had apparently been >locked down since mid-August or earlier, in mid-September I did have >access on wiki to both but not since. I've responded to Ken off-list to s

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
ogic we followed there. >Best would be if your BIOS was preserving boot entries across upgrades >(BIOS flashing). Absolutely. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.” -- https://twitter.com/manisha72617183

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
he issues raised in this thread. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
-bit only. Carl: please try the multi-arch netinst from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-10.9.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso instead. That will start in 32-bit UEFI, then install a 64-bit system with a 32-bit version of Grub etc. You should not need to do anything speci

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
lar to the Bay Trail netbooks - it's 64-bit but with crappy firmware that's limited to 32-bit only. Carl: please try the multi-arch netinst from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-10.9.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso instead. That will start in 32-bit UEF

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x & LGA1155

2021-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
the problem for you. efibootmgr (and other tools using libefivar) will look into both: * /sys/firmware/efi/vars (the old, deprecated interface that was removed in 5.10) * /sys/firmware/efi/efivars (the new interface, provided by efivarfs) As you have efivarfs loaded but with use-count of 0,

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x [solved]

2021-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
p...@sojka.co wrote: >On 5/6/21 1:10 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> This line: >> >> efivarfs 16384 0 >> >> suggests the cause of the problem for you. efibootmgr (and other tools >> using libefivar) will look into both: >>

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
the viewer and sxiv gives me that facilty. >My recollection is neither qiv nor feh gave me that. Maybe I didn't >look hard enough. Aha! Thanks for the suggestion! I've been looking for years for a replacement for xv myself. I've been playing with

Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server.

2021-05-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
reading the many >repetitive message you sent, seems more like a big huge "I". Please take a step back and re-read what you wrote here. You've read a *lot* into a short message that I'm guessing may be from a non-native English speaker. Maybe try and a be a little more welcoming,

Re: OT: Strange behavior in Firefox -- google searches start by searching another URL / domain

2021-06-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
hat's your right. But connecting old software to the internet is *dangerous*. You appear to be worried about a third-party website/domain potentially tracking your activity, but I think that should be the least of your concerns at this point. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
whole hard >drive or the start of a particular partition, chosen during >installation. I'm guessing it's the same for GPT partitioning. It's ... complicated. :-) See https://wiki.debian.org/Grub2#UEFI_vs_BIOS_boot for documentation I've written comparing how GRU

[jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
doing so. Most of them aren't DDs but spend huge numbers of hours looking after our community for us. -- bye, Joerg - End forwarded message - -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the youn

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >Hi, >Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version >release as Debian package ? I've no idea, to be honest. Sorry... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
robbine...@gmail.com wrote: >On 6/16/21 9:11 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> For the new Libera.Chat network, we established a group registration and >> will also hand out Debian cloaks to members again. Please open an issue >> in our new Salsa project, if

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
osoft and a number of representatives from the Linux distros, I *can* confirm that Microsoft care about Linux and SB working well. Hell, they're even using SB (shim, etc.) themselves for their own small Linux distro. That's not a *guarantee* of future goodwill, but they're not about to bre

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ering the garbage in your signature... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Root location

2021-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ticularly to a novice. > >If the OP wants to run a 64-bit OS in the end, they should install a >64-bit OS to begin with. We finally now have a cross-grading tool in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader written by Kevin Wu as a GSoC project last year. It has wor

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's your call on your own systems, of course. But could you *please* at least in future check for missing recommends that might be causing issues before mailing debian-user to complain about them? It's easy enough to do, and saves wasting the time of everybody

Re: Debian "Bookworm" Installation

2022-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
tition table will depend on whether you have booted the installer in UEFI (GPT) or legacy BIOS (MS-DOS) mode. You can override the that choice, but depending on your setup you *may* need to use expert mode to be asked the question about which partition type to use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
FI? If you hit E, that will let you edit the currently-loaded grub config so you can append preseed and other options. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
e cursor to near the end of the line, *before* the "---" separator and add any extra command line options you need there. 4. Hit Ctrl-x or F10 to boot As mentioned separately, you'll probably want to do this starting with the "Advanced Options ...&q

Re: MAC address of bridge interfaces

2022-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
: auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp hwaddress XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (substitute your own MAC address here) and it all works flawlessly now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: sleep(1) vs. sync(1) twice before umount(8)

2022-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
lag=sync" onto your dd call, or similar. *Or* you might want to call "sync" in a loop if you're worried you're about to lose power suddenly. This is what UPSes are for... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're t

Re: UNetBootin on Debian 11

2022-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
debian installer team. Lots of our users were using it, and it was doing broken things to our installation images that caused lots of bug reports. We *massively* disrecommend its use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the techn

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
bit of using /dev/shm for writing temporary trampolines for cross-language calls, and they need to be executable. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
k to older modes as needed for compatibility with the controllers in your computers. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
re feeling keen/brave would be to write an EFI driver for Linux SW RAID. I'd expect the EDK2 folks would be very happy if somebody wanted to do that... I had a conversation a few years back with some guys at one large PC vendor who were apparently considering adding firmware support like this. Then things went quiet and I can only assume it's not coming from them... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng them as the number of i386 >installs that are worth cross-grading is probably quite low and >decreasing daily. We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot of the pain: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader but it's definitely not somethin

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Darac wrote: >On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot >> of the pain: >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader >> >> but it's definitely not something I

Re: Download Pages are, Locked??!???

2021-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Stephen wrote: >Suddenly the download pages are forbidden? > >What is going on? Apologies, something screwed up and left the release directory not readable. Fixed now. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
he drive may be configured in "RAID" mode. If so, switching to "AHCI" will most likely solve your problem. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
g...@extremeground.com wrote: >On 2021-02-18 09:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> zcor...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> Just received a new laptop, and both Debian Stable, and Debian >>> testing would not detect the hard drive.  Any possibility this can be >>> added to the t

Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
has *no* place at all on Debian mailing lists, nor anywhere else in our community. Please keep this kind of garbage to yourself in future, or you will be blocked from posting to Debian lists. Steve, for the Community Team. -- Steve McIntyre 93...@

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
x27;re produced on the same machine as our official images, using the same software to build them. There's just some small config tweaks, that's all. In our team, we are ~always looking for more people to help, both for testing and development. We're a small group of volunteers, an

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
or spreading lies dis >and mis-information about our duly elected and beloved President, Donald >John Trump. > >Donald Trump will go down in history as the greatest President in the >last 100 years, maybe more. This has no place at all on the Debian mail

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
been a Debian developer for over a decade, and was DPL for a year. He understands the project, and is suggesting ways to help engage with more people too. *I'm* not such a fan of discourse myself, but equally mailing lists are also not popular with a lot of people. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
an (and will) moderate or block those people where necessary. We value free speech, but that does *not* extend to giving contributors a free pass to harass or abuse others. I hope you understand that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
the ability to opt out of >this chipping nonsense? Stay tuned. This is very much off-topic for debian-user, please take it elsewhere? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
rmware updates later. It's likely to be difficult to resize after the fact. You can choose a smaller size *at your own risk*, but d-i will complain a lot if you try to go very small, below ~32MiB. HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: Dual Prolific PL2303 Serial Port USB devices have iSerial of 0?

2020-05-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
I abandoned them. FTDI cost more, but are massively more reliable in my experience. This is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for". -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents qua

Re: Buster install with UEFI boot not working

2020-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
problem here when we added SB support until I fixed it. >2. Do I have to change default grub.conf file in >debian-installer/amd64/grub/grub.cfg. There are suggestions to use >linuxefi and initrdefi instead of linux and initrd in grub.cfg . Not at all, no. The default grub config shoul

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
inserted it. Nod. Smartlist is based on procmail, and that is keen on adding ">" to the beginning of lines starting with "From", even when it's *not* working on mbox-style folders. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed w

Re: Slic3r --gui won't run

2020-07-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;s scope to get involved or to convince existing developers to work on different stuff. On the Pi 4, it looks like there's finally (IMHO) a good option - using an EDK2 build in flash allows you to have a properly Free OS on top of that, using UEFI to boot. If I had an interest in the Pi,

Re: grub broke boot of debian stable: error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
grub already, >2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. Upgrade again, and you trouble should go away. No, the only change there was a fix for EFI chainloading. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Regarding Installation over Windows 10

2018-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
the Debian mirrors on the Internet instead of by using these extra images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
n the UEFI spec for an EFI System Partition to be a partition with type 0xEF in an msdos-style partition table, particularly for removable media. Are you having problems booting on a particular machines? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Fu

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
a particular Debian wiki user ? Not directly, I'm afraid. >- Does the wiki have means to discuss facts or to leave messages > to other editors why a particular change was undone ? Moin doesn't directly have the "talk" feature that some other wikis do, sorry. >If Steve M

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jon Dowland wrote: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>wodim is factually abandoned by its cloners Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre, >>and Eduard Bloch. Its home page is gone, its change history is gone. > >That would be reason enough to avoid wodim

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's patently not true. That's a standard feature of Debian on all architectures. I understand you've seen problems, but it just needs debugging to see how things were broken in your case. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Furthe

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Gene Heskett wrote: >On Saturday 27 October 2018 11:09:48 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> You keep on asserting this, but it's patently not true. That's a >> standard feature of Debian on all architectures. I understand you've >> seen problems, but it j

Re: make check nested variables

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Are there any particular configure scripts that show this? What shell are you using? In terms of debugging it, I'd try using "bash -x ./configure" and see what that says. Maybe "strace -f -o logfile ./configure" to see what it's doing. Both will produce a lot of ou

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
David wrote: >On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 05:21, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >There seems to be an ongoing theme here with lines that look like > *search hosts dns >popping up in other places in Gene's system. > >See: >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00857.h

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
s Priority: standard so tasksel decided it should be installed. But the dependencies are not on security.debian.org and not on the CD --> problem. That's how this becomes a problem. For now, if you have security updates installed then you'll need to enable a mirror or start with a larger insta

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
MD5sum: aa2aa9266ed488bc57e486497dcde2b0 SHA1: 4dac8ed3ec8dd50de65ff3cb07eef1963d3e96c0 SHA256: 749a070599b56c923c514cd7b9fab6f94b01c662a9c5c93182366f81990f4d87 which suggests there may be a problem with overrides in the security archive. The overrides file for security isn't available to

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 12:29:15 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> On 11/3/18 8:35 AM, Brian wrote: >> > On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 20:01:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> > >> > > On 11/2/18 5:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >>

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sven wrote: >On 2018-11-04 00:19 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> which suggests there may be a problem with overrides in the security >> archive. The overrides file for security isn't available to look at >> directly to check... > >Is there even an overrid

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