On 6/6/24 22:14, gene heskett wrote:
In experimenting I've found a name clash, there are appprently two
orca's. one is a speech synth, one is a slicer for 3d printers I don't
use. Typing orca in a shell locks the shell wo any output, for several
minutes but comes back to a prompt with a ctl-c, so I've NDC which was
being executed. Whatevver, the installation is quite voluminous:
gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ locate orca |wc -l
1560
So I took orca out, which took gnome out. But now gnomes dependencies
will put orca back in. So now I can't run autoremove. So one more time
this broken damned bookworm install has bit me in a rear.
No Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Here are my installation notes from when I migrated my daily driver from
Debian 9 to Debian 11. It has orca, and orca has never bothered me:
January 9, 2022
1. Wipe Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB drive in Intel DQ67SW. Insert
debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst USB flash drive into USB 3.0 port
adjacent Gigabit port. Boot:
Debian GNU/Linux installer menu (BIOS mode)
install
Language C
Continent or region North America
Country, territory or area United States
Keymap to use American English
Hostname laalaa
Domain name tracy.holgerdanske.com
Root password ********
Re-enter password ********
Full name for new user debian
Username for your account debian
Choose a password ********
Re-enter password ********
Select your time zone Pacific
Partitioning method Manual
Select a partition... SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 60.0 GB ATA INTEL
SSDSC2CW06
Create partition table Yes
Select a partition... pri/log 60.0 GB FREE SPACE
Create a new partition
New partition size 1 GB
Type Primary
Location Beginning
Partition settings
Use as Ext4 journaling file system
Mount point /boot
Mount options defaults
Label laalaa_boot
Reserved blocks 5%
Typical usage standard
Bootable flag on
Done setting up the partition
Select a partition... pri/log 59.0 GB FREE SPACE
Create a new partition
New partition size 1 GB
Type Primary
Location Beginning
Partition settings
Use as physical volume for encryption
Encryption method Device-mapper (dm-crypt)
Encryption aes
Key size 256
IV algorithm xts-plain64
Encryption key Random key
Erase data no
Bootable flag off
Done setting up the partition
Select a partition... pri/log 58.0 GB FREE SPACE
Create a new partition
New partition size 13 GB
Type Primary
Location Beginning
Partition settings
Use as physical volume for encryption
Encryption method Device-mapper (dm-crypt)
Encryption aes
Key size 256
IV algorithm xts-plain64
Encryption key Passphrase
Erase data no
Bootable flag off
Done setting up the partition
Configure encrypted volumes
Write the changes to disk Yes
Encryption configuration Create encrypted volumes
Devices to encrypt
[*] /dev/sda2 (1000MB; crypto)
[*] /dev/sda3 (13000MB; crypt)
Continue
Encryption configuration Finish
Encryption passphrase ********
Re-enter passphrase ********
Select a partition... #1 13.0 GB f ext4
Partition settings
Use as Ext4 journaling file system
Mount point /
Mount options defaults
Label laalaa_root
Reserved blocks 5%
Typical usage standard
Done setting up the partition
Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
Write the changes to disks Yes
Debian archive mirror country United States
Debian archive mirror deb.debian.org
HTTP proxy information <blank>
Package usage survey No
Choose software Debian desktop environment
Xfce
SSH server
standard system utiilties
Device for boot loader installation
/dev/sdb
(ata-INTEL_SSDSC2CW060A3_********)
Installation complete Continue
Push and hold power button at POST; release when computer turns
off. Remove USB flash drive.
2. Take image:
<snip>
I may have installed only once in the past 2 years, ~4 months, but I
have blown up that computer many times. The key is defense in depth --
OS configuration files and data working directories in a networked
version control system (CVS) with the repository on another computer, OS
disk images, OS and data backups, IMAP backups of incoming and outgoing
messages, etc..
Did you ever build that dedicated backup server? I recall you buying a
bunch of 2 TB 2.5" SATA SSD's for crazy cheap that turned out to be
counterfeit, but do not recall any news since then.
David
