Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-11 Thread Felix Miata
Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large > disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #21

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Felix Miata
igion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: "fatal" screen blanking

2019-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-05 06:03 (UTC-0400): > On Friday 05 April 2019 04:09:55 Felix Miata wrote: >> Were you running MC in TDE? Have you set its screen power save to >> maximum 120 minutes (as I do)? > MC has no such option. TDE I haven't checked yet. But PI

Re: stretch disk label problems

2019-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
n I fix that? apt install e2fsprogs It also provides e2label. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: "fatal" screen blanking (was: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work)

2019-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
n "DPMS" "off" EndSection Have you tried setting BIOS suspend mode to S1 instead of (typical default) S3? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
s @682.5. I need to try moving it to the front sometime when I have nothing better to do to see if it makes a difference, if the BIOS revert doesn't help. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
cience. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
ools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
rnel and initrd, arguably with less fuss than creating installation media. It's what I do for by far the most installations. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-24 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2019-03-24 07:21 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Time can't change motherboard components' relative physical positions. > this is true, but to conclude that the numbering of the ethernet devices > depends on the position of the ATX or w

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-03-23 23:03 (UTC-0400): > On Sat 23 Mar 2019 at 04:39:21 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> The ATX is on the left when looking at the rear from the rear with >> the slot openings facing up. ghe wanted a frame of reference. I gave the ATX >> posit

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2019-03-23 07:29 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> IME, using net.ifnames=0, the motherboard NIC closer to an ATX power >> supply is always eth0. With BTX I've never had two NICs, but have to >> suppose it would be the opposite. I think PCI(

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-22 Thread Felix Miata
the same direction, from CPU & PS/2 port end to last slot end. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Felix Miata
e console is blanking? How about no blanking at all? consoleblank=0 https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: what to do when Buster's apt won't purge?

2019-03-19 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Ritter composed on 2019-03-19 06:34 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> What does it take to make telnet* go away? Current pae kernel is broken, >> so I need to get linux-image-686 installed. > Option 1: install update-inetd, then try to purge again. > U

what to do when Buster's apt won't purge?

2019-03-18 Thread Felix Miata
science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
sk/by-label blkid works too. Plus: as Michael Stone wrote: LABEL=, both in fstab and grub.cfg. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-03-01 10:56 (UTC-0600): > (and you so much work). Was wondering for years. I think I'm over it now. :) -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Miata
the non-FOSS DDX. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive)

2019-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): >>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. >> English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, th

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
ake it clear to me. I can't recall ever including it along with any other option. I've always assumed all defaults not explicitly overridden will be used. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

2019-02-24 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Stone composed on 2019-02-24 10:46 (UTC-0500): > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 05:37:06PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>Depends on context. In a fully automated context, UUIDs do indeed work great, >>when humans are >>working with them, not so great. Most humans cannot rem

Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

2019-02-23 Thread Felix Miata
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Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

2019-02-22 Thread Felix Miata
,noauto 0 0 LABEL=adata16g /data/music vfatcodepage=437,noauto 0 0 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Felix Miata
ght in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Permanent Use of IPv4

2019-02-15 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2019-02-15 19:48 (UTC+0300): > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:17:06AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> I made ipv6.disable=1 a standard option here at least as far back as 2011. >> If it ever caused a >> problem I never found out about it. > That's a

Re: Permanent Use of IPv4

2019-02-15 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2019-02-15 19:02 (UTC+0300): > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:55:23AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> To me, "on boot" implies something on the kernel cmdline, e.g.: >> ipv6.disable=1 > And by doing *this* you're risking breaking systemd and

Re: Permanent Use of IPv4

2019-02-15 Thread Felix Miata
rs in dmesg that can be cured via an avahi config change. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread Felix Miata
how-report-bugs -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
see anything suspicious in your Xorg.0.log, but your hardware is very old and may be responsible. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
nce. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
sive, cpu seems doing something impossible, it's very slow i'm > seriously considering > opensuse What is output from $ inxi -Gxx run from an Xterm (inside Xorg)? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Let's play "Where is X?" (was: logout kills X)

2019-02-02 Thread Felix Miata
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard composed on 2019-02-02 22:01 (UTC): > Felix Miata: >> Indeed. It's what I had in mind when I responded. I'll give one guess >> where it came from. Time's up. Yes, systemd. Who couldn't have >> guessed. It imposed a notio

Re: Partition information as text file?

2019-02-01 Thread Felix Miata
age to find options to produce exactly your desires in its logs even with some editing. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Windows 10 & Debian 9: Win 10 not updating

2019-01-31 Thread Felix Miata
p_a_working_GRUB.3F describes in simple terms how my multiboot systems are configured. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: logout kills X

2019-01-31 Thread Felix Miata
Holger Herrlich composed on 2019-01-31 15:22 (UTC+0100): > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:57:59 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: >> or what gfx, > ?? Common shorthand for *graphics* hardware. AMD/ATI? Intel? NVidia? Matrox? Other? Model? e.g. # inxi -GxxSM System:Host: big31 Kernel: 4.9.0-8-

Re: Let's play "Where is X?"

2019-01-30 Thread Felix Miata
Brian Potkin composed on 2019-01-30 23:03 (UTC): > On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 17:56:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Brian composed on 2019-01-30 22:33 (UTC): >> > You really should contribute to #80625 and let the systemd maintainers >> > know where they have

Re: Let's play "Where is X?"

2019-01-30 Thread Felix Miata
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80625 not ??? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Let's play "Where is X?" (was: logout kills X)

2019-01-30 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-30 13:54 (UTC-0600): > On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 19:12:42 (+), Brian wrote: >> On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 13:48:17 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>> Same problem if you don't use tty1, instead logging in first on tty2, and >>> after on

Re: logout kills X

2019-01-30 Thread Felix Miata
Brian composed on 2019-01-30 19:12 (UTC): > On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 13:48:17 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> hoh...@arcor.de composed on 2019-01-30 18:38 (UTC+0100): >> > I logged in (to tty1) >> > started X (startx) >> > switched to tty2 >> > lo

Re: logout kills X

2019-01-30 Thread Felix Miata
er on tty3? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Partition information as text file?

2019-01-26 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2019-01-26 15:10 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Richard Owlett composed on 2019-01-26 08:32 (UTC-0600): >> I don't use a spreadsheet. > I was using "spreadsheet" in the most possible generic way ;/ >> http://fm.no-ip

Re: Partition information as text file?

2019-01-26 Thread Felix Miata
ta for tracking what's where among my 100+ disks. Sometimes I append output from lsblk or parted -l. hdparm and smartctl might also provide some of what you're looking for. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

2019-01-23 Thread Felix Miata
11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf, or purge xserver-xorg-video-ati & xserver-xorg-video-radeon. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

2019-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
70.08 DVI-I-0 connected primary 1920x1200+0+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm 1920x1200 59.95*+ 1680x1050 59.88 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: allocating disk space

2019-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-09 14:26 (UTC-0600): > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 19:36:42 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> Yes, when filling the disk at the outset. With the escalation of disk sizes >> over the years, it's >> become more common not to allocate 100% at

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
source, perhaps? Maybe pastebinit a bigger hunk of dmesg, or journal. Journal commonly has clues not found in dmesg. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
ntext, or do more diagnostics? Possibly kernel-parameters.txt has a clock suggestion, maybe clocksource=hpet or forcing tsc from cmdline would switch to it at a more opportune time? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-09 Thread Felix Miata
Jude DaShiell composed on 2019-01-09 06:48 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Jude DaShiell composed on 2019-01-09 00:04 (UTC-0500): >>> lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script >> I tried exactly that on Buster multiple times, and always get the following: >> roo

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-08 Thread Felix Miata
ash: sda9: command not found root@gb250:~# sr0 bash: sr0: command not found root@gb250:~# exit -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: long page screenshots (was: Why choose Debian on server)

2019-01-06 Thread Felix Miata
m 320 x 200, current 1920 x 3600, maximum 8192 x 8192 DVI-I-1 connected 1920x3600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 673mm x 284mm panning 1920x3600+0+0 1920x1080 59.96*+ 60.0059.93 1680x1050 59.9559.88 1400x1050 74.7659.98 1600x900 59.9459.9559.82 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Multitasking, through Multiple Text Windows

2019-01-05 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-05 23:43 (UTC-0600): > On Sat 05 Jan 2019 at 14:04:19 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> On demand gettys are a systemd [mis]feature. I don't like waiting on them >> either. > What do you mean by "waiting on them"? I don'

Re: Multitasking, through Multiple Text Windows

2019-01-05 Thread Felix Miata
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Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-04 19:21 (UTC-0600): > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> Felix Miata wrote: >>> Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2019-01-04 12:57 (UTC-0500): >>>> I haven't messed around with partitioning sin

Re: allocating disk space (was: Upgrade Problem)

2019-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-04 14:27 (UTC-0600): > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 13:41:33 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2019-01-04 10:19 (UTC-0600): >> > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 04:30:00 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> >>> This partiti

Re: bad printing results (was: Why choose Debian on server)

2019-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
ults going back decades. Trying to get usable results probably averages >12 sheets wasted for every usable one when the "page" is not actually a pdf. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-04 10:19 (UTC-0600): > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 04:30:00 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >>> This partitioning scheme seems really odd and unwieldy. >> Indeed. Considering the absence of a sysadmin, > What's so unusual about that? Standing

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
ning scheme, not to mention what will be used for your planned reinstallation. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
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Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Felix Miata
ree cache space too. ;) -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Gparted error report

2019-01-02 Thread Felix Miata
s is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: File ownership problem using removeable media

2018-12-25 Thread Felix Miata
science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Serious Hardware problems In multiple distros (grahpical/ethernet)

2018-12-12 Thread Felix Miata
two or four sticks in matched pairs. Maybe such a bottleneck is part of your trouble. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
t has Stretch and Buster but not Sid. Same box also has Fedora 29/Plasma5 running as with TW, except it has Mesa 18.2.4. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 18:10 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 17:19 (UTC-0500): >>> Felix Miata wrote: >>>> Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 14:12 (UTC-0500): >>>> ... >>>> T

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 17:19 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 14:12 (UTC-0500): >> ... >>> Can anyone help? Where should I look first. >> Try purging xserver-xorg-video-intel and restarting the server. Las

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
igion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-11-21 11:50 (UTC-0500): > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> I did try ./google-chrome... but apt wouldn't find it. > In stretch, right? What was the exact command you used, and the exact > output? Sorry, I thou

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
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Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2018-11-21 09:15 (UTC): > Felix Miata wrote: >> (Stretch) >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says >> "download and install", >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or >

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
john doe composed on 2018-11-21 10:06 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> (Stretch) >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says >> "download and install", >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt*

need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-20 Thread Felix Miata
ow installed and working. Thank you very much! -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2018-11-17 13:45 (UTC+0300): > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 05:36:25AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> I knew 52.9 was released upstream in June, so I kept trying June archive >> dates >> and stopped when I found one containing 52.9. Upstream release bz2 that I

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2018-11-17 11:14 (UTC+0300): > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 02:35:57AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Reco composed on 2018-11-17 09:53 (UTC+0300): >>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>>> Web searches have not been helpful f

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
songbird composed on 2018-11-17 03:55 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: > ... > was this version ever downloaded to begin with? Not "to begin with". > if so it may still be in the cache... > check /var/cache/apt/archives It's there because I put it th

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2018-11-17 09:53 (UTC+0300): > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Web searches have not been helpful for these: >> 1-Which of apt* returns version numbers along with package names, one line >> per result, when >> search

discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
madison) only show 45.x (installed) and 60.3 (available). -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Display problems after installation (Stretch)

2018-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
and Fedora both aced it when installed on > this hardware,... What is the output of 'inxi -Gxx' and the content from Stretch of /var/log/Xorg.0.log? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

2018-11-02 Thread Felix Miata
amplesM.html -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread Felix Miata
cience. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Unattended Upgrades question

2018-10-15 Thread Felix Miata
ples. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Felix Miata
fore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Felix Miata
nly file managers I use. Both are heavily used. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

can apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade be purged from Buster?

2018-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
tever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Unable to install GRUB in /dev/null - This is a fatal error.

2018-09-19 Thread Felix Miata
cmdline option, since loading vmlinuz and initrd.gz from HD is how I start most installations? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
stable, while acquiring a few improvements to match morphing technology, keeping stability, avoiding useless bloat, and not dumbing down its UI. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-12 Thread Felix Miata
(hd0,30) [Hit return to continue] (hd0,31) (hd0,36) (hd0,37) (hd0,38) grub> :) -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y roc

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-12 Thread Felix Miata
Brad Rogers composed on 2018-09-12 10:19 (UTC+0100): > On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:18:46 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: >>If the filesystem is being written to less than 5 minutes per year, >>what do you suppose the odds are that power could be lost during any >>portion of that less &g

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2018-09-12 08:02 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> How often does /boot get written to, as much as 5 minutes per year? All my >> /boot partitions are EXT2, (in part) /because/ it has no journaling. > I had the same for years, but recently I upgraded the

Re: red SATA cable corruption

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2018-09-11 22:29 (UTC-0400): > On Tuesday 11 September 2018 21:34:27 Felix Miata wrote: >> IMO, red because it's red is less likely than red because red was the ^^^ *Less* likely, not unlikely. IOW, both happen, but

Re: red SATA cable corruption (was: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete)

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
newer hardware is designed to use. IOW, if the cable is red, quite likely it is speed limited, regardless whether the red dye is exposed to its conductors. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
idnight Commander? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
ver else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Buster: "cannot run in framebuffer mode"

2018-09-03 Thread Felix Miata
efore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: profile data (was: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?)

2018-08-31 Thread Felix Miata
rectory of .mozilla, or elsewhere if so configured, is what needs to be deleted. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #21140

Re: [Buster]: Can't start X: no screens found(EE)

2018-08-27 Thread Felix Miata
y need firmware-amd-graphics and/or firmware-linux-free and/or firmware-misc-nonfree. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-23 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2018-08-23 08:26 (UTC): > to Felix Miata: > memtest86 seems same asĀ  memtest86+ It's not. 86 gets updated. 86+ does not. Last I checked, 86+ is v5.01. 86 is 7.5. 7.4 works on UEFI. 5.01 doesn't work on UEFI. 86+ has an ISO to burn to DVD or stick, as well

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-22 Thread Felix Miata
are I have much better success with memtest86: https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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