Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Normally, you make changes because you have identified a problem
> from user reports. But this is basically backwards, you see the
> need for a change and you're now trying to find a justification
> for it.
Ok, so we will wait until users complain about tha
On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 16:03 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/18/20 3:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every
> > > desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks.
> > [...]
> >
> > That has already hap
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/18/20 3:26 PM, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> Sure, and indeed I nearly mentioned "floppy" disk. But "hard disk"
>> isn't a case where the new thing has taken over the old meaning;
>> people don't generally say "pass me the hard disk" when they mean an
>> SD card.
>
Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 10:11 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every
>> desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks.
>
> That has already happened to many (most?) applications.
One
On 3/18/2020 3:44 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 11:27 +0100, john doe wrote:
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Version: debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>>
>> After installing debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso with encrypted LVM, the
>> crypttab file is populated with the discard' opt
On 3/18/20 3:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every
>> desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks.
> [...]
>
> That has already happened to many (most?) applications.
I actually just verified that and both Micros
On 3/18/20 3:26 PM, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Sure, and indeed I nearly mentioned "floppy" disk. But "hard disk"
> isn't a case where the new thing has taken over the old meaning;
> people don't generally say "pass me the hard disk" when they mean an
> SD card.
That's because you are comparing apples
On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 11:27 +0100, john doe wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> After installing debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso with encrypted LVM, the
> crypttab file is populated with the discard' option in the fourth field.
>
> According to (1), t
On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 10:11 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/18/20 9:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > while investigating a grub installation failure, I came across the main menu
> > entry of grub-installer:
> > "Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
> >
> > This is no lo
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:>
> On 3/18/20 11:43 AM, Justin B Rye wrote:
>>> The majority of all users is able to perform the cognitive process to
>>> that "hard disk" means "installation device" and "storage medium" here
>>> is very confusing since that normally refers to a data disk and not
>>> t
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Holger Wansing wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Holger Wansing wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
>> > Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything
>> > fine) and then again te
Hi,
Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
> > Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything
> > fine) and then again tested with alpha2 to be able to
> > provide logs.
> >
> > I can do further
On 3/18/20 11:43 AM, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> The majority of all users is able to perform the cognitive process to
>> that "hard disk" means "installation device" and "storage medium" here
>> is very confusing since that normally refers to a data disk and not
>> the system disk.
>
> The trouble wi
On 3/18/20 11:07 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Leaving it as is might however lead to the wrong assumption that
> grub can only be installed on a hard disk. Or with other words, grub - for
> some specific reason - does not work on SD cards (or USB thumb drives or ...).
"Leaving it as is might howeve
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/18/20 9:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> while investigating a grub installation failure, I came across the main menu
>> entry of grub-installer:
>> "Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
>>
>> This is no longer optimal, since we have flash/SSD d
Package: debian-installer
Version: debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
After installing debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso with encrypted LVM, the
crypttab file is populated with the discard' option in the fourth field.
According to (1), the discard option has security implication:
"discard
Allow disca
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/18/20 9:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > while investigating a grub installation failure, I came across the main menu
> > entry of grub-installer:
> > "Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
> >
> > This is no longer optimal, since we have f
On 3/18/20 9:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> while investigating a grub installation failure, I came across the main menu
> entry of grub-installer:
> "Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
>
> This is no longer optimal, since we have flash/SSD drives, SD cards etc. where
> OS'es are
Hi,
Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
> Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything
> fine) and then again tested with alpha2 to be able to
> provide logs.
>
> I can do further tests though, with different partitioning
> scheme
Hi,
while investigating a grub installation failure, I came across the main menu
entry of grub-installer:
"Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
This is no longer optimal, since we have flash/SSD drives, SD cards etc. where
OS'es are installed on.
So this should be changed, simil
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