On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:23:22AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> What commands shall I type to find out the location of the directory where
> linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64.deb is, given the fact that I'm using a
> USB-installer?
>
df
mount
cd
ls
more cd
more ls
maybe find . -name 'linux*.deb'
a
Hi.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:23:22AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> What commands shall I type to find out the location of the directory
> where linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64.deb is, given the fact that I'm using
> a USB-installer?
$ wget -q
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-buil
I quote a section of the Debian's man page of mount:
The move operation
Move a mounted tree to another place (atomically). The call is:
mount --move olddir newdir
This will cause the contents which previously appeared under olddir to now be
accessible under newdir. The physical location of the
On 21/07/21 11:39 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote:
No, a bind mount doesn't take a device name as an argument. It takes
two directory names. From the man page:
mount --bind|--rbind|--move olddir newdir
It's used when you've already got the device mounted somewhere (the first
directory), and y
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 01:28:57PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi Reco
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 5:09 AM
> > From: "Reco"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stic
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 01:28:57PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi Reco
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 5:09 AM
> > From: "Reco"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stic
Hi Reco
Thanks for your help.
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 5:09 AM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> > > What you actually need is to bind m
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Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:30:10AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Greg Wooledge [2021-07-15 07:00:40] wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> >> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> >> designed systemd made
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 10:17:45AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 16 Jul 2021 at 07:31:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > I presume you type /etc/fstab into your post, both because of the
> > > missing # for the comment, and
On Fri 16 Jul 2021 at 07:31:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > I presume you type /etc/fstab into your post, both because of the
> > missing # for the comment, and because the /dev/sr0 line has too
> > many fields. It should contain
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> I presume you type /etc/fstab into your post, both because of the
> missing # for the comment, and because the /dev/sr0 line has too
> many fields. It should contain udf,iso9660 user,noauto
> without spaces after the commas.
The spa
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 05:00, Stella Ashburne wrote:
I'm getting a sense of possible XY problem here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
> > Chicken and egg: I think the OP is trying to set up some sort of
> > repository to install packages from. (I can't be sure.
> Your guess is right. I
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:11:06PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:07 PM
> > From: "Reco"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
>
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 22:19:23 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:30 PM
> > From: "Thomas Schmitt"
> >
> > Well, since the case "already mounted" is quite outruled, it might be time
> > to explore "mount point busy".
> >
> >
> > https://codesearch.debian.net/
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 22:15:59 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:08 PM
> > From: "David Wright"
> >
> > Best I can do. (And I see that your kernel's naming of sda/sdb
> > is more stable than on at least a couple of my machines.)
> >
> What did you mean by "more
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:52:34 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:05 PM
> > From: "David Wright"
> >
> > Presumably given as root.
> >
> A definite yes because I chose to mount /dev/perfect-vg/root as a root file
> system in Rescue Mode.
>
> > > The error mess
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:15:59PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > From: "David Wright"
> > Best I can do. (And I see that your kernel's naming of sda/sdb
> > is more stable than on at least a couple of my machines.)
> >
> What did you mean by "more stable"?
The reason we strongly discourage t
Hello Thomas
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:30 PM
> From: "Thomas Schmitt"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> Well, since the case "already mounted" is quit
Hello David
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:08 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
>
> Best I can do. (And I see that your kernel's nam
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:30:10AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Greg Wooledge [2021-07-15 07:00:40] wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> >> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> >> designed systemd made an "interesting" decis
Hi
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7:07 PM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
> Ok. Can you use this rescue mode to execute an ordinary shell, with full
> acc
Greg Wooledge [2021-07-15 07:00:40] wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
>> designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process
>> (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access
Hi,
Stella Ashburne wrote:
> root@perfect:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy
Well, since the case "already mounted" is quite outruled, it might be time
to explore "mount point busy".
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=package%3Autil-linux+
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:29:53 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 3:49 PM
> > From: "David Wright"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> > Rescue
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 08:38:59PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:26 PM
> > From: "Brian"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in
> >
Hi David
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:42 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> That's right, it's the 16th deb to be installed at
Hello David,
Nice to hear from you again.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:05 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> Presumably given as root.
&
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 19:26:43 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:01:05 +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
>
> > root@perfect:/# file -sL /dev/sdb1
> > bash: file: command not found
> > root@perfect:/#
>
> File is a standard utilty. It should be on your system.
That's right, it's the 16
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:26 PM
> From: "Brian"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:01:05 +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
>
> > roo
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 3:49 PM
> From: "David Wright"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> This
> might help the OP boot the system manually and recover the bl
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 20:01:05 +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> root@perfect:/# file -sL /dev/sdb1
> bash: file: command not found
> root@perfect:/#
File is a standard utilty. It should be on your system.
apt install file
--
Brian.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 11:59 AM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> > Output of mount is
> >
> > root@perfect:/# mount
> > /dev
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 11:43:26 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Debian Bullseye's installer is on a USB stick and I used it to boot into
> Rescue Mode. If it's of any relevance, the partition table type is GPT, with
> UEFI+Secure Boot enabled.
>
> After booting into Rescue Mode and filling out
On Thu 15 Jul 2021 at 14:59:36 (+0300), Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:52:12PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > > A usual thing with the modern desktop environments.
> > > Check the output of "mount" and "df -Th" and /dev/sdb1 will probably be
> > > there. I'd like to see the output of t
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:00:40 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > halt the boot
> > process (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access only)
> > even if a single filesystem mentioned in fstab fails to mount.
>
> This was the tradi
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:52:12PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > A usual thing with the modern desktop environments.
> > Check the output of "mount" and "df -Th" and /dev/sdb1 will probably be
> > there. I'd like to see the output of these commands too, btw.
> >
> Output of mount i
Hi
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 9:55 AM
> From: "Reco"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue
> Mode?
>
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Stella Ashburne
Hi guys,
There's a typo in my original post. Thanks to Reco for pointing it out to me.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM
> From: "Stella Ashburne"
> To: "debian-user mailing list"
> Subject: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer
On 2021-07-15 at 07:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>
>> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
>> designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot
>> process (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:00:40AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> > designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process
> > (i.e. host is inaccessible by
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever
> designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process
> (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access only) even if a
> single filesystem mentioned i
Hi.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Next, I entered Executive a shell in /dev/perfect-vg/root
It's Superuser shell actually, not Supervisor/Executive one.
> I created a directory called /media/myusb and issued the following command to
> mount the USB
Debian Bullseye's installer is on a USB stick and I used it to boot into Rescue
Mode. If it's of any relevance, the partition table type is GPT, with
UEFI+Secure Boot enabled.
After booting into Rescue Mode and filling out the required details onscreen, I
chose /dev/perfect-vg/root as the devic
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