Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-05 Thread john doe
On 12/5/2020 7:32 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Thanks John. I’m not brave enough to try that yet. I will just backup. Do I need to re format or will the install take care of that? No, the Debian installer (d-i) will per default take care of that for you. Here's what I would suggest: - Backup what

Re: Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 23:08:14 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hello Andrei, > 2. A Reply-To is set, either by the list[1] or by the Sender Even with one set, many ppl /still/ manage to not honour it. I've lost count of the number of time replies have come to me only, despite setting a list address f

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread peter
From: David Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 22:56:41 +1100 > 1) grub needs a partition table on the target device so it can do > embedding, so the target device can't be an entire block device (eg > sdx) it must be a partition[*] (eg sdxN where N is some natural number) > > 2) And you probably need at leas

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread David
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 11:18, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07:30 +1100, David wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 07:54, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 07:29:37 +1100, David wrote: > > > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:57, wrote: > > > > > > I give their md5sums below so you can che

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07:30 +1100, David wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 07:54, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 07:29:37 +1100, David wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:57, wrote: > > > > > > I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same > > > > > files. > > > >

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread David
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 08:35, John Boxall wrote: > On 2020-12-05 4:07 p.m., David wrote: > > I have both i386 and amd64 machines available to test, and I'm > > using i386 when trying to assist Peter. > In your testing have you been able to cleanly boot and run the installer > through to completio

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 15:47:02 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2020-12-05 11:52 (UTC-0500): > > On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: > >> On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > And while it is working, there still is not a /dev/enp1s0 > >> >

Re: Apt dependencies

2020-12-05 Thread Ángel
On 2020-12-05 at 18:48 +, Joe wrote: > What does the >= sign mean as regards dependencies? I took it to mean > 'this version or later', but apparently not. It does. > > I've had a logjam on sid for a while now, so I thought I'd > investigate. > > debfoster cannot be upgraded because of a de

Re: Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 05, 2020 04:08:14 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In general 'Reply' defaults to Sender, with a few exceptions: > > 1. A smart mailer that detects the message is from a mailing list, most > likely configurable (e.g. Claws Mail already mentioned, probably > Sylpheed as well) an

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread John Boxall
On 2020-12-05 4:07 p.m., David wrote: I have both i386 and amd64 machines available to test, and I'm using i386 when trying to assist Peter. David, In your testing have you been able to cleanly boot and run the installer through to completion, whether i386 or amd64? I have some results from

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

2020-12-05 Thread Felix Miata
Guyenne Tsui composed on 2020-12-05 14:11 (UTC): > Whenever I try to do any form rendering using the dGPU, the software > just hangs and become inresponsive. My kernel based on `uname -v` is '#1 > SMP Debian 5.9.9-1 (2020-11-19)'. What is "form rendering"? Which Sea Islands do you have? Which D

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread David
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 08:09, wrote: > Added DebianInstaller FAQ 29. > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ#Q:_Running_the_installer_from_an_iso_file_on_a_hdd_... > If someone improves it or a maintainer incorporates the point into the > official instructions, I won't object. Thanks for y

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread David
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:41, Brian wrote: > On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 22:56:41 +1100, David wrote: > > 2) And you probably need at least N=2 on an older machine. > > If there is sufficient RAM, the installer offers to load itself > > into RAM which frees up the partition where the iso is, so that it

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread peter
From: David Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:20:19 +1100 > The instructions can be modified ... Added DebianInstaller FAQ 29. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ#Q:_Running_the_installer_from_an_iso_file_on_a_hdd_... If someone improves it or a maintainer incorporates the point into the offici

Re: Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 05 dec 20, 12:20:02, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > I am also on Gmail. When I click (or tap) on Reply, it invariably wants me > to send the Reply to the individual who sent the email, as opposed to the > Debian Users List. So one additional task for me is to edit the "To" > field, so that it

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread David
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 07:54, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 07:29:37 +1100, David wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:57, wrote: > > > > I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same > > > > files. > > > Thanks. Well, the iso file simply wasn't present. > > I don't u

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 07:29:37 +1100, David wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:57, wrote: > > > > I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same > > > files. > > > > Thanks. Well, the iso file simply wasn't present. > > I don't understand this sentence. Do you mean you made a

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2020-12-05 11:52 (UTC-0500): > On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: >> On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > And while it is working, there still is not a /dev/enp1s0 >> > to be found except in an "ip a" output. >> I'm sure "ip a" men

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread David
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:57, wrote: > > I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same > > files. > > Thanks. Well, the iso file simply wasn't present. I don't understand this sentence. Do you mean you made a human error? Or something else? > Files match but the search still

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Dec 2020 at 11:19:17 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > http://easthope.ca/FailedBootVrtConsole4.jpg > > Apologies for the snapshot but it serves the purpose. It doesn't serve any purpose. It is completely useless. -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread peter
> I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same > files. Thanks. Well, the iso file simply wasn't present. Now I have this. root@joule:/mnt# md5sum !$ md5sum {d*,i*,v*} f327723426dc90a4daaf1609595d8306 debian-10.6.0-i386-netinst.iso d3f41e1b683fa87cca189f8595b80a7c initrd.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 22:56:41 +1100, David wrote: > 2) And you probably need at least N=2 on an older machine. > If there is sufficient RAM, the installer offers to load itself > into RAM which frees up the partition where the iso is, so that it can > be overwritten by the new install. If the RAM

Re: Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 12:20:02 -0500 Kenneth Parker wrote: > I am also on Gmail. When I click (or tap) on Reply, it invariably > wants me to send the Reply to the individual who sent the email, as > opposed to the Debian Users List. So one additional task for me is > to edit the "To" field, so tha

Apt dependencies

2020-12-05 Thread Joe
What does the >= sign mean as regards dependencies? I took it to mean 'this version or later', but apparently not. I've had a logjam on sid for a while now, so I thought I'd investigate. debfoster cannot be upgraded because of a dependency on guile-2.0-libs. guile-2.0-libs depends on libgc1c2 (>

Re: Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 12:20 -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I am also on Gmail. When I click (or tap) on Reply, it invariably wants me > to send the Reply to the individual who sent the email, as opposed to the > Debian Users List. So one additional task for me is to edit the "To" > field, so that

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: Have you ever seen network interfaces appear under /dev ? They don't appear there on my machines... They used to, No, they didn't. Network interfaces have traditionally been a majo

Re: Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 12:05 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 14:11:02 + > Guyenne Tsui wrote: > > > Also, I have no idea how to reply to a thread on a mailing list so it > > would be practical if you teach me how. I use Gmail. I even installed >

Replying. [was Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem]

2020-12-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 14:11:02 + Guyenne Tsui wrote: > Also, I have no idea how to reply to a thread on a mailing list so it > would be practical if you teach me how. I use Gmail. I even installed > Thunderbird as according to Debian Wiki on Mailing Lists but still no > idea how to reply to p

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And while it is working, there still is not a /dev/enp1s0 > > to be found except in an "ip a" output. > > I'm sure "ip a" mentions 'enp1s0' not '/dev/enp1s0'. Correct, my short term memo

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > And while it is working, there still is not a /dev/enp1s0 > to be found except in an "ip a" output. I'm sure "ip a" mentions 'enp1s0' not '/dev/enp1s0'. Have you ever seen network interfaces appear under /dev ? They don't appear there on my

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 09:18:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > > OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of > > 4.19.0-rt13 and

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 22:56:41 +1100, David wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 20:00, David wrote: > > > Looking now, I can confirm that I did a Debian installation here on 20 > > Oct 2020 using these files. There is no doubt because they are still > > on the hard drive. > > Actually it was 14 Oct,

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 09:18:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > > OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of > > 4.19.0-rt13 and

AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

2020-12-05 Thread Guyenne Tsui
Hello debian-users, Whenever I try to do any form rendering using the dGPU, the software just hangs and become inresponsive. My kernel based on `uname -v` is '#1 SMP Debian 5.9.9-1 (2020-11-19)'. Also, I have no idea how to reply to a thread on a mailing list so it would be practical if you

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of > 4.19.0-rt13 and when synaptic was done, issued a sudo reboot to reboot > to it... > >

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-05 Thread Marco Möller
On 04.12.20 13:00, deandre wrote: Hi My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) I get the message “cannot open access to console, the root account is locked See sulogin(8) man for more details” and after I press Enter it continues to give me the same message, at this point I

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:00:14PM +, deandre wrote: > > My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) > > Deepin is not Debian. It's a derivative. Your problems with Deepin > should be asked on a Deepin support list, because

Re: Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have difficulties to boot from your hard disk

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 18:55:22, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 04 December 2020 17:37:02 Tixy wrote: > > > > OK, I'll do your proofreading... [...] > Fat fingers syndrome, I've suffered from that for 86 years. Typing errors happen to everyone. Triple-checking the result when something is not work

Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-05 Thread Bob McGowan
It is a Power PC G3 running Mac OS 9. I've gotten CDs for Jessie 8.11, the last Debian release to support Power PC architecture. I set up a second SCSI hard disk with an Adaptec controller and installed to it successfully.  However, upon reboot the system does not start immediately.  When it