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2016-08-18 Thread Fredrik Nilsson
Hi, I have installed Debian Jessie (8.5) on an iscsi disk but I am having difficulty booting the system afterwards. (The installation itself went smoothly although a bit slow.) The Supermicro server I have at my disposal mounts the iscsci target fine via bios/nic firmware and grub loads then up n

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2016-08-18 Thread oblvn
Hello, Is there an official .onion address for either bugs.debian.org or wiki.debian.org? https://onion.debian.org Some of the *.debian.org subdomains don't see to be included in the above onion list. Thanks.

RESOLVED: Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to all who replied (or read my original post), the problem is resolved. I followed the instructions in Thomas Schmitt's first reply, and things just worked. I need to try to puzzle out what I did differently the first time--I do know one difference, I was trying to make a logical instea

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 13:46:14 -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:50:23 -0700 > David Christensen wrote: > > >On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >>> 3. Internet modem or gateway. > >> 3. N/A > > > >So, th

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 18 August 2016 20:46:14 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:50:23 -0700 > > David Christensen wrote: > >On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >>> 3. Internet

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:50:23 -0700 David Christensen wrote: >On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: >>> 3. Internet modem or gateway. >> 3. N/A > >So, the laptops are not connected to

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 10:33:28 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > The WinXP machine no longer reported a disconnected cable. > > The Jessie Mate machine now reported it was attempting to establish a > > connection. > >

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Fdisk [...] calls the system call to tell the > kernel to re-read the partition table Ah yes. That's plausible. With my previous Linux i would have had to unplug and re-plug the stick. But Debian 8 noticed the new partition without that: $ ls -l /dev/sdc* brw-rw-

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 11:50:23 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >> 3. Internet modem or gateway. > > 3. N/A > > So, the laptops are not connected to the Internet? How do you access > the Interne

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 11:50:23 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >> 3. Internet modem or gateway. > > 3. N/A > > So, the laptops are not connected to the Internet? How do you access > the Interne

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 20:57:33 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > $ /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc > ... > Command (m for help): n > Select (default p): p > Partition number (3,4, default 3): 3 > First sector (505856-3915775, default 505856): > Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (505856-3

Re: Subject: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 19:43:10 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > >Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install > >image to the pendrive? > > Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on >

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 20:57, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : $ /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc ... Command (m for help): n Select (default p): p Partition number (3,4, default 3): 3 First sector (505856-3915775, default 505856): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (505856-3915775, default 3915775):

Re: Subject: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 19:43:10 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > >Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install > >image to the pendrive? > > Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on th

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'll characterize those as, generally, partition the USB stick, then add the > installer image (and, iiuc, you have to use a different install image than > the DVD-1 .iso.) and a different procedure. The installer ISOs are supposed to be put on the base device of t

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread David Christensen
On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: >> 3. Internet modem or gateway. > 3. N/A So, the laptops are not connected to the Internet? How do you access the Internet to post and read this list, download Debian ISO's, etc.? David

Re: machine checks on Dell R815 under jessie

2016-08-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 10:20 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >    From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf > >    I (still) have MCE errors on my new laptop [1]. But so far, hasn't created >    any problem. > > It causes my servers to halt. > >     Jeff (http:/

Re: Frequent Hash Sum mismatch on jessie-backports with apt-get update

2016-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:33:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Now, starting last week, the problem is that when I try to apt-get update, > > the files coming from security.debian.org HANG at 100% complete. It > > looks something like t

Re: machine checks on Dell R815 under jessie

2016-08-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 23:16 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 10:20 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > >    From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf > >  > >    I (still) have MCE errors on my new laptop [1]. But so far, hasn't > created > >

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 19:18, Reco a écrit : OP is seeking to connect exactly 2 PCs. Both SLAAC and DHCP are overkill in such case IMO. I won't argue. I don't see what's so inconvenient in ipv6 link-local for such simplistic setup. IPv6 link local addresses are harder to remember, and you must ap

Re: Subject: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install image to the pendrive? Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on the invalid layout of the partition table (the two partitions overlap an

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 20:18:56 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:51:08 +0200 > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > SLAAC (stateless address autoconfiguration) requires a properly > > configured IPv6 router sending RA's (router advertisements). Debian > > running radvd can do this. > > > >

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:51:08 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > SLAAC (stateless address autoconfiguration) requires a properly > configured IPv6 router sending RA's (router advertisements). Debian > running radvd can do this. > > Or do you mean link local addresses (fe80::/10) ? They

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 11:50:55 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >> I just changed /etc/mailname on all of my machines to contain: >> >> qobi@upplysingaoflun>cat /etc/mailname >> purdue.edu > >You know it makes sense to do this. :) > > I had never manually edited /etc/mailn

Re: Subject: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 12:17:28 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install > image to the pendrive? > > I found subchapter 4.3. of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide: > "Preparing > Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 12:51:08 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/08/2016 à 01:26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > > >Too bad it is WinXP, otherwise you'd have instant connectivity via IPv6 > >SLAAC. > > Windows XP supports IPv6. It is just disabled by default, so you > need to enab

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Joe
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:04:16 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > In days of yore, there was a minimum distance on coax because > every transmission was effectively a broadcast, and had to pass a > certain distance (≡time) before any reply would be recognised *as a > reply* rather than the transmitter

Subject: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread rhkramer
Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install image to the pendrive? I found subchapter 4.3. of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide: "Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting" (https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) and tried to

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 11:07:28 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 18, 2016 09:58:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > 6. Distances between devices. > > ... > > > 6. < 1 ft

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

2016-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
> I just changed /etc/mailname on all of my machines to contain: > > qobi@upplysingaoflun>cat /etc/mailname > purdue.edu You know it makes sense to do this. :) I had never manually edited /etc/mailname. I took whatever what put there by the debian installer perhaps as modified by

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

2016-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
I would bet you do not recall what you answered to the questions regarding mail config when installing wheezy. I kept records of what I answered to those questions when installing sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, and wheezy. If you have a backup copy of /etc/exim4 you could diff and see. Al

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Tim McDonough
On 8/18/2016 10:07 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Because I learned one thing here already (Gigabit ethernet usually doesn't require crossover cables), I'll see if I can learn something else ;-) Back in the "good ole days" there used to be a minimum segment / cable length for an Ethernet cable--

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 18 August 2016 16:07:28 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Back in the "good ole days" there used to be a minimum segment / cable > length for an Ethernet cable--I don't recall to what all it applied--i.e., > I don't recall if it applied to thick Ethernet, thin (coax) Ethernet, Cat 5 > and Cat

Re: Frequent Hash Sum mismatch on jessie-backports with apt-get update

2016-08-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Now, starting last week, the problem is that when I try to apt-get update, > the files coming from security.debian.org HANG at 100% complete. It > looks something like this: While it really might be something else completely, the anti-virus function of

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 18 August 2016 14:58:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. > >> > >> The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. > >> Consi

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Back in the "good ole days" there used to be a minimum segment / cable length > for an Ethernet cable--I don't recall to what all it applied--i.e., I don't > recall if it applied to thick Ethernet, thin (coax) Ethernet, Cat 5 and Cat > 6, > all o

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 18, 2016 09:58:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > 6. Distances between devices. ... > 6. < 1 ft. Because I learned one thing here already (Gigabit ethernet usually doesn't requi

Re: "No soundcard"-problem after reboot on 1005HA without speakers

2016-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you run aplay -L? Can you run amixer set Master 85% then alsactl store? Last commands as root or sudo root most likely. On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jonas Hedman wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:29:13 From: Jonas Hedman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: "No soundcard"-problem after reb

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 18 August 2016 13:04:39 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 4:26 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 21:48:20 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> [snip] > >> The web hits I got for zeroconf indicated it's part of a support > >> package for KDE, I'm using Mate. Don't know if th

Re: "No soundcard"-problem after reboot on 1005HA without speakers

2016-08-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:29:13 +0200 Jonas Hedman wrote: This: > Aug 18 15:16:02 noether kernel: snd_hda_intel :00:1b.0: no codecs > found! tells us that Jessie's kernel finds your soundcard, but for some reason udev does not load supplementary (yet needed) kernel modules to actu

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 08:58:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. > >> > >>The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. > >>Consid

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a day. It inten

"No soundcard"-problem after reboot on 1005HA without speakers

2016-08-18 Thread Jonas Hedman
Hello I have a Asus Eee PC 1005HA on which I run Jessie. The thing is that the speakers have been physically removed and I am having trouble getting audio to work via the headphone jack. However, if I run # apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio and then reinstall them both and reboot it

Re: Frequent Hash Sum mismatch on jessie-backports with apt-get update

2016-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:47:55AM -0700, poiuytrez wrote: > I have frequent errors when I do apt-get update: > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/source/Sources > Hash Sum mismatch For you, I would suggest trying a different mirror. $ host http.deb

Re: Frequent Hash Sum mismatch on jessie-backports with apt-get update

2016-08-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:47:55 -0700 (PDT) poiuytrez wrote: Hello poiuytrez, >What's wrong and what would you recommend? If it persists for more than a day or two, I usually do; # rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/* Not elegant but it works. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obviou

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

2016-08-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 18:44:59 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: [...Quite a bit of snipping of very useful information]. > I just changed /etc/mailname on all of my machines to contain: > > qobi@upplysingaoflun>cat /etc/mailname > purdue.edu You know it makes sense to do this. :) > qobi@uppl

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/2016 8:52 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 08/17/2016 03:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I am groping for the questions I *SHOULD BE* asking ;/ Q: How does Ethernet work? Q: How do TCP/IP local area networks work? Q: How does the Internet work? https://www.amazon.com/Networking-Dummies

Frequent Hash Sum mismatch on jessie-backports with apt-get update

2016-08-18 Thread poiuytrez
Hello, I have frequent errors when I do apt-get update: W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/source/Sources Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en Hash Sum mismatch W: Fail

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/2016 4:26 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 21:48:20 Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] The web hits I got for zeroconf indicated it's part of a support package for KDE, I'm using Mate. Don't know if that's a problem. http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi is still giving a

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 01:26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : Too bad it is WinXP, otherwise you'd have instant connectivity via IPv6 SLAAC. Windows XP supports IPv6. It is just disabled by default, so you need to enable it with something like "ipv6 enable". Even Windows 2000 could have exper

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The WinXP machine no longer reported a disconnected cable. > The Jessie Mate machine now reported it was attempting to establish a > connection. > > IOW both machines recognized a PHYSICAL connection. > *NOTHING MORE*

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

2016-08-18 Thread deloptes
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I did not modify /etc/mailname. It contained whatever the debian installer > put there or perhaps what dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config put there with the > answers to the questions I put in my original post. These are the same > answers I have given under wheezy and pre