On 2024-04-22, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> TL;DR: Copying an existing /home into a fresh Debian installation
> causes audio in Steam games to glitch - but all other sound is OK.
I have only the most vaporous ideas about Steam, but have you tried
backing up and then recreating (if such a thing is
On 4/24/24 00:46, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
Correction: the 4TB drive is a Western Digital WD40EFPX. I was reading
it by shining a flashlight through a gap in the frame and squinting from
a
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
Correction: the 4TB drive is a Western Digital WD40EFPX. I was reading
it by shining a flashlight through a gap in the frame and squinting from
a wide angle because I didn't want to take
> I doubt the new drive is slower than the old drive:
Overall, agreed. Tho AFAICT the new drive spins slower (5400rpm vs
7200rpm), so it has a slightly higher rotational latency. This means
that in *some* cases it can be slower.
Now, I have no idea whether that's the cause of the glitches.
On 4/23/24 09:02, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
The new drive is a Western Digital Red, WF40EFPX (4TB
On 4/22/24 21:26, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
>
> The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
> The new drive is a Western Digital Red, WF40EFPX (4TB SATA).
According to my searches, there's
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
The new drive is a Western Digital Red, WF40EFPX (4TB SATA).
If the old hard drive was spinning rust, it is acceptable to replace
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 5:03 AM Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> I should probably be posting this to the Steam forums, but
> most of the denizens there are Windows people so I might be
> better off letting you Debian gurus have a go at it first.
>
> TL;DR: Copying an existing /home into a fresh Debian
> Recently I decided to upgrade its storage capacity, and replaced
> its 500GB hard drive (which was pretty large at the time I bought
> it) with a 4TB drive. I did an install from scratch using a
> network install CD, then copied my /home partition (using rsync)
> from the old drive.
[...]
>
On 4/21/24 22:33, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I should probably be posting this to the Steam forums, but
most of the denizens there are Windows people so I might be
better off letting you Debian gurus have a go at it first.
TL;DR: Copying an existing /home into a fresh Debian installation
causes audio
On 2024-04-21, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> Obviously my Steam programs and configuration files are in my
> home directory, since the updated system comes up icons and all
> without re-installing Steam, and can find everything it needs to
> run the games. But perhaps there are a few files somewhere
I should probably be posting this to the Steam forums, but
most of the denizens there are Windows people so I might be
better off letting you Debian gurus have a go at it first.
TL;DR: Copying an existing /home into a fresh Debian installation
causes audio in Steam games to glitch - but all
Hello,
I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box
running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could not get
the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my lilo.conf to point to
/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 instead of the symlink at /vmlinuz, and
everythinig
Hello,
I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box
running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could not get
the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my lilo.conf to point to
/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 instead of the symlink at /vmlinuz, and
everythinig
Actually, come to think of it, even though the new drive wouldn't boot at
first, it still got as far as Loading Linux, so I guess it might not be
a lilo problem after all. The boot process got to Loading Linux, but
not to Uncompressing Linux. Changing the image= in my lilo.conf from
/vmlinuz to
Are your sureyour ne hd has a MBR (master Boot Record)!?
Ron Rademaker
PS. To check this: RTFM (sorry, can't tell you which M...)
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Daniel J. Kruszyna wrote:
Hello,
I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box
running potato), and while
Daniel == Daniel J Kruszyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daniel I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an
intel box
Daniel running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could
not get
Daniel the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my lilo.conf
On 19 May 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Had you run `lilo' on the new drive before you tried to reboot? If
not, then what it was is that the kernel isn't at the same block
address as it was on the other disk...
Yes, I followed the instructions at
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