breaks things. I installed it when
> > I was still running xubuntu 24.04 and that OS could see the drive OK.
> > I actually copied the whole of my old (xubuntu) installation across
> > onto that drive.
>
> So you copied the entire system, with an ESP, onto sda, and then
> t
ing xubuntu 24.04 and that OS could see the drive OK.
> I actually copied the whole of my old (xubuntu) installation across
> onto that drive.
So you copied the entire system, with an ESP, onto sda, and then
tried to install Debian onto nvme0n1, but always unsuccessfully
with UEFI, and apparentl
Firstly, thank you everyone who tried to help, it was much
appreciated, even if it maybe didn't sound like it (I was getting a
bit frustrated).
As I reported, removing the second disk drive (a 2TB SATA SSD),
allowed me to to the install with no problems at all. I had installed
the drive when the s
On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 12:17 PM Chris Green wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:31:41AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> [...]
> > Is a BIOS update available?
> >
> Possibly, but I bet I'd need an MS-Windows system to do the update.
This situation sucks. My father has an Acer laptop like it -- the
y old (xubuntu) installation across
onto that drive.
I will try putting it back later to see if it breaks the Debian 12
installtion but for the moment I'm just relieved I've got it working
at last!
Thanks for all the help everyone.
I'll try and investigate why the drive broke thin
y old (xubuntu) installation across
onto that drive.
I will try putting it back later to see if it breaks the Debian 12
installtion but for the moment I'm just relieved I've got it working
at last!
--
Chris Green
Hi,
Chris Green wrote:
> > (proc) (memdisk) (lvm/q957--vg-swap_1) (lvm/q957--vg-root) (hd0)
> > (hd0,apple2) (hd0,apple1) (hd0,msdos2) (hd1) (hd1,gpt1) (hd2)
> > (hd2,msdos5) (hd2,msdos1)
David Wright wrote:
> So hd0 is the USB stick.
Looks like that. Apple Partition Map is not much in use on a
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 15:27 (UTC):
> (proc) (memdisk) (lvm/q957--vg-swap_1) (lvm/q957--vg-root) (hd0)
> (hd0,apple2) (hd0,apple1) (hd0,msdos2) (hd1) (hd1,gpt1) (hd2)
> (hd2,msdos5) (hd2,msdos1)
On all my GPT disks, the required ESP filesystem is on (hd0,gpt1). Presumably
your
ESP
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 11:19:50AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > If I boot from the USB stick (isohybrid image) in Legacy mode then it
> > all **appears** to work, installation completes, but then the system
> > won't boot.
>
> What kind of boot loader did you i
ntinues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> > > > today.
> > > >
> > > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
> > > > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB
>
> If I boot from the USB stick (isohybrid image) in Legacy mode then it
> all **appears** to work, installation completes, but then the system
> won't boot.
What kind of boot loader did you install? `grub-efi`, `grub-pc`,
something else?
Does your Debian install's boot fail
> today.
> > >
> > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
> > > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB
> > > stick in UEFI mode it just takes me to the grub prompt.
> >
> > It may help
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 09:09:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 12:36:18 (+), Chris Green wrote:
> > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> > today.
> >
> > I can't get the USB Installation stic
On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 12:36:18 (+), Chris Green wrote:
> This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> today.
>
> I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
> installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boo
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:53:02AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I suspect that this is why, when I boot from the USB stick in BIOS
> > compatibility mode the resulting installation doesn't work.
>
> Last time I did an install on a UEFI machine (most of my machines ar
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:31:41AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 12:36 (UTC):
>
> > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> > today.
>
> > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into
> I suspect that this is why, when I boot from the USB stick in BIOS
> compatibility mode the resulting installation doesn't work.
Last time I did an install on a UEFI machine (most of my machines are
too old, and of the two that aren't, one is running Coreboot 🙂),
I found
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 12:36 (UTC):
> This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> today.
> I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
> installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB
&
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-04 12:36 (UTC):
> This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> today.
> I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
> installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB
&
This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
today.
I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB
stick in UEFI mode it just takes me to the grub prompt.
I suspect that th
On 31/10/24 16:32, Angus Mackenzie wrote:
I purchased a 2021 Dell Latitude 5420 i7 with 16GB from a refurbisher. It runs
Windows 10 Pro well as far as I can see, but I want to install Debian since
I've preferred it for nearly 20 years.
There is a BIOS admin password set, so I cannot change the b
As long as you don't use a custom kernel, moving a Debian installation
from one system to another should be relatively unproblematic. You may
need to do some manual tweaking with regards to which firmware gets
loaded on boot to get full hardware functionality.
Alternatively, if you simpl
I purchased a 2021 Dell Latitude 5420 i7 with 16GB from a refurbisher. It runs
Windows 10 Pro well as far as I can see, but I want to install Debian since
I've preferred it for nearly 20 years.
There is a BIOS admin password set, so I cannot change the boot device and
install from a USB stick.
On Fri 25 Oct 2024 at 11:45:18 (-0400), eben@¹ wrote:
> On 10/25/24 07:35, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be
> > > running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservati
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 5:20 AM Chris Green wrote:
> I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went
> pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile
> doesn't get run.
>
> If I ssh into the laptop then .profile does get run.
>
> So what might cause this
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 26/10/2024 18:08, Chris Green wrote:
> > Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run
> > ~/.profile.
>
> LightDM package in Ubuntu contains an additional script that reads
> ~/.profile (like SDDM in Debian). Some
on when I do a GUI login my .profile
> > > doesn't get run.
> >
> > Is starting a GUI session (whether X11/Xorg or Wayland) even
> > _supposed_ to execute ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)? My
> > understanding is that it is not.
> >
> Well on my previous XF
On 26/10/2024 18:08, Chris Green wrote:
Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run
~/.profile.
LightDM package in Ubuntu contains an additional script that reads
~/.profile (like SDDM in Debian). Some hints:
-
<https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariab
On 26 Oct 2024 12:08 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green):
>> As I understand it, those are meant to be run by a _login shell_. This
>> sets them apart from e.g. ~/.bashrc which is read each time _bash_ is
>> started.
>>
> Yes, and entering one's name and password at GUI start-up **is**
> loggi
starting a GUI session (whether X11/Xorg or Wayland) even
> _supposed_ to execute ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)? My
> understanding is that it is not.
>
Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run
~/.profile.
> As I understand it, those are meant to be ru
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
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>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 5:20 AM Chris Green wrote:
>
> > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went
> > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do
On 26 Oct 2024 10:13 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green):
> I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went
> pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile
> doesn't get run.
Is starting a GUI session (whether X11/Xorg or Wayland) even
_supposed_ to
I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went
pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile
doesn't get run.
If I ssh into the laptop then .profile does get run.
So what might cause this?
--
Chris Green
·
On 10/25/24 07:35, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote:
I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be
running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservation,
but it's another potential point of failure that a fixed address
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote:
> I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be
> running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservation,
> but it's another potential point of failure that a fixed address
> configuration doesn't have.
I've s
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:36:20AM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:03:43 +0100
> Chris Green wrote:
>
>
> > Yes, OP here again, that's why I said in my original post "(I know
> > they're not quite the same thing, but the result works OK)"
> > I think (on Ubuntu it did anyway) that sys
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:31:18 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to
> > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP
> > address.
>
> O
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 04:31:18PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > In an installation not using
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to
> > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP address.
>
> OK. I'm guessing that's not r
dly, the actual installation only
> took half an hour or so and configuring things not much more. I've
> already run a backup from one of my smaller systems and it ran fine.
>
> On xubuntu I have made a habit of removing systemd-resolved.service
> and installing dnsmasq. (I know th
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 04:31:18PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to
> > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP address.
>
> OK. I&
I have just installed Debian Bookworm on my backup server which is a
Fujitsu Esprimo Q556 with an 8TB external USB drive for backup. I was
previously running xubuntu there.
It has all gone very straightforwrdly, the actual installation only
took half an hour or so and configuring things not much
S gets passed to my LAN's DNS server. Is that
> > what one gets on a minimal installation, no explicit DNS server or
> > resolv management? I'm very happy with this, it's very simple and the
> > backup system isn't going to make a lot of DNS queries such that i
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote:
> In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to
> make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP address.
OK. I'm guessing that's not relevant here, though.
> If
> you're not ru
t; what one gets on a minimal installation, no explicit DNS server or
> resolv management? I'm very happy with this, it's very simple and the
> backup system isn't going to make a lot of DNS queries such that it
> needs a DNS cache. Have I understood this OK?
In a typical inst
their
hardware is supported before installing Debian, and 2) check out how Debian
looks to see if they like Debian or not (before an installation). I have not
personally used Live media, but I would expect that you can also then choose to
go into the installation of Debian to a drive in your
of OpenWRT, using Ansible. So I am assuming that
the OP is looking for somewhere to run Ansible from)
While studying, I encountered four different modes of installation for
Debian, and I would appreciate it if someone could explain the
differences between these modes in detail. Specifically, I
Hi,
deb...@nexgntech.com wrote:
> I encountered four different modes of installation for Debian, and I would
> appreciate it if someone could explain the differences between these modes
> in detail. Specifically, I would like to understand what each mode includes
> initially and wha
Dear All,
A few days back, I had the opportunity to dive into the OpenWISP / OpenWRT
project, and I learned that it is best supported on Debian. While studying,
I encountered four different modes of installation for Debian, and I would
appreciate it if someone could explain the differences
Karl Vogel wrote:
> Removing the --quiet flag and using something like safesys() would:
>
> * let systemctl write something (hopefully an error message),
> * show exactly what arguments are being passed to it, and
> * show its exit value.
Your safesys includes basically exactly the code
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 21:43:39 -0400, I mistakenly wrote:
> See the ":" followed by two spaces? Unlike systemctl, well-behaved
> programs set "errno" when they puke, and that setting is turned into
> a more-or-less useful error message like "Permission denied".
> "$!" would have held that messag
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 10:23:00PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 21:43:39 -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > >> In previous messages:
> > >
> > > system('systemctl', '--quiet', [...] , @start_units) == 0
> > > or die("Could not execute systemctl: $!");
> > >
> > > Co
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 21:43:39 -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> In previous messages:
> >
> > system('systemctl', '--quiet', [...] , @start_units) == 0
> > or die("Could not execute systemctl: $!");
> >
> > Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 148.
>
> S
:10:20 (-0400), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Well, if perl is not more awkward than i believe anyways, then the
> message is emitted if the run of program systemctl fails. The reasons
> for such a failure are manifold, from botched installation to lack of
> disk space...
Exactly right, a
; its args.
Well, if perl is not more awkward than i believe anyways, then the
message is emitted if the run of program systemctl fails.
The reasons for such a failure are manifold. From botched installation
to lack of disk space ...
The message text is obviously somewhat misleading.
(I imagine
the args as you suggest. You
> could use "warn" instead of "print STDERR".
>
> > at
> >
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/init-system-helpers/1.67/script/deb-systemd-invoke/#L148
> >
> > One should make them visible and then re-try th
"warn" instead of "print STDERR".
> at
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/init-system-helpers/1.67/script/deb-systemd-invoke/#L148
>
> One should make them visible and then re-try the Redis installation
> after possibly removing the debris of the nearly compl
On 12 Oct 2024 11:42 +0200, from s...@jdcassidy.eu (John Cassidy):
> trying to install Redis on Debian SID, the install is failing with the
> following errors:
>
> apt install redis
/snip/
> Setting up redis-server (5:7.0.15-2) ...
> Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/redis.service' →
> '/usr/li
temd-invoke/#L148
One should make them visible and then re-try the Redis installation after
possibly removing the debris of the nearly completed installation.
We'd need a perl programmer to tell the exact command to insert before
line 148 to make the systemctl command parameters visible before
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 11:42:22 +0200, John Cassidy wrote:
> Setting up redis-server (5:7.0.15-2) ...
> Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/redis.service' →
> '/usr/lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service'.
> Created symlink
> '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/redis-server.service' →
>
Hello all,
trying to install Redis on Debian SID, the install is failing with the
following errors:
apt install redis
Installing:
redis
Installing dependencies:
libjemalloc2 liblzf1 redis-server redis-tools
Suggested packages:
ruby-redis
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 5, Re
(-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > > Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
> > > > > available as a single file.
> > > > >
> > > > > I need it available when the network is not.
> > > > >
&
On 09/19/2024 09:16 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" available
as a single file.
I need it available when the network is not.
IF you have *already* installed Debian, the individual HTML files and
compressed copies of the PDF
On 09/20/2024 10:57 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 07:53:28 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
avai
On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 07:53:28 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
> > > available as
On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
available as a single file.
I need it available when the network is not.
It would be convenient if a copy of
On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
> available as a single file.
>
> I need it available when the network is not.
>
> It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appearing
Am 19.09.2024 um 16:16 schrieb Richard Owlett:
> Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" available
> as a single file
How about doing your homework?
> perplexity.ai:
>
> Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide&
Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" available
as a single file.
I need it available when the network is not.
It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appearing when installing
from DVD1 were available.
TIA
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM Nicolas George wrote:
>
> [...]
> > EFI files are signed
> > for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be easily adjusted.
>
> Secure boot is a joke when it comes to security, its only “merit” is to
> prevent l
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 03:17:02PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> Then there is the fact that the LTS team can and does mark packages
> as unsupportable for the lifetime of LTS when they need to, so just
> because LTS team exists doesn't mean they can get around to
> supporting 32-bit x86 installer/
Max Nikulin (12024-08-20):
> Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but
> not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions.
This is not true. The only problem you will have with this setup is that
you will need to install and/or configure the bootloader manua
respect to boot configuration). Actually GRUB menu to load system
> from alternative partition is more convenient than firmware boot menu in my
> case.
Here is the tree on my laptop, I think the "ubuntu part" comes from a
former Mint installation (Debian is tthe only OS on the compute
On 20/08/2024 11:27, David Christensen wrote:
AIUI UEFI/GPT were designed to support multi-boot
Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors,
but not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions. EFI files
are signed for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be
Hello,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 03:44:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 08/19/2024 02:51 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > [32-bit x86] as previously mentioned has a single digit of years
> > of remaining lifetime in Debian.
>
> I don't see anything on https://wiki.debian.org/LTS that implies shorter
On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:34:33 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 5.1.13. Baseline for 32-bit PC is now i686¶
> >
> > Debian's support for 32-bit PC (known as the Debian architecture
> > i386) now no longer covers any i586 processor. The new minimum
> > requirement is i686. This means that the i386 a
On 08/20/2024 05:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 08/20/2024 04:30 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[snip]
There will be non i386 installer medium for Trixie when released though
i386 will be retained as a release architecture.
Can you point me to the details. I have two i386 I wish to use as long
;}
Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
3. 32 bit Debian - couple of applications require a 32 bit OS
All 32-bit x86 software runs on a
;from scratch" install since Squeeze ;}
> > > Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
> > > I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
> > >1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
> > >2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
rdware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
3. 32 bit Debian - couple of applications require a 32 bit OS
All 32-bit x86 software runs on a 64-bit k
On 08/19/2024 11:27 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 8/19/24 04:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm over 80 and doing first "from scratch" install since Squeeze ;}
Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installat
at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
3. 32 bit Debian - couple of applications require a 32 bit OS
4. other installs with strong project dependencies
Today's question
At boot time, what deter
On 8/19/24 04:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm over 80 and doing first "from scratch" install since Squeeze ;}
Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64
three options]:
> > 1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
> > 2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
> > 3. 32 bit Debian - couple of applications require a 32 bit OS
> > 4. other installs with strong project dependencies
> >
> > Tod
On 8/19/24 05:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm over 80 and doing first "from scratch" install since Squeeze ;}
Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64
> I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
> 1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
> 2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
> 3. 32 bit Debian - couple of applications require a 32 bit OS
All 32-bit x86 software runs on a 64-bit kernel no pr
On 08/19/2024 10:57 AM, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:44:39 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
THANK YOU
On 08/19/2024 07:02 AM, David wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 11:19, Richard Owlett
wrote:
At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets
mounted as a specific directory ( /, /h
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:44:39 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> THANK YOU
>
> On 08/19/2024 07:02 AM, David wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 11:19, Richard Owlett
> > wrote:
> >> At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets
> >> mounted as a specific directory ( /, /home, swap, and
THANK YOU
On 08/19/2024 07:02 AM, David wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 11:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets mounted as a
specific directory ( /, /home, swap, and so forth )?
Please reference documentation as reading it will remind me of how
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 11:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
> At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets mounted as a
> specific directory ( /, /home, swap, and so forth )?
>
> Please reference documentation as reading it will remind me of how and
> why I chose specific options.
man 5 f
I'm over 80 and doing first "from scratch" install since Squeeze ;}
Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features
3. 32 bit Deb
Franco Martelli wrote:
> On 30/07/24 at 17:29, Tawsif wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 01:08:39PM +0600, Tawsif wrote:
> > I have a very small storage size for my laptop (64gb). So, I installed
> > debian minimal in it.
>
> If you can, reinstalls Debian as usual,
On 30/07/24 at 17:29, Tawsif wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 01:08:39PM +0600, Tawsif wrote:
I have a very small storage size for my laptop (64gb). So, I installed
debian minimal in it.
If you can, reinstalls Debian as usual, my KDE's installation takes
about 10GB:
~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF
On 22/07/24 at 08:07, Francesco Di Lorenzo wrote:
good morning,
i installed debain 12 from your site, and using the usb , I did the
installation, but I don't know why I don't get the desktop enviments ,
it is only text.
what I can do?
thanks
Maybe X fails to start, what it happ
On 6/28/24 10:20, dewey rahn wrote:
When I used to use Debian when a new release came out (like from 10 to 11) you
had to completely reinstall the operation system. Is that the case now?
I have invested myself in backup, recovery, and version control/
configuration management. So, a major v
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 01:40:52PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 19:20:54 +0200, dewey rahn wrote:
> > When I used to use Debian when a new release came out (like from 10 to 11)
> > you had to completely reinstall the operation system. Is that the case now?
>
> That has *n
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 19:20:54 +0200, dewey rahn wrote:
> When I used to use Debian when a new release came out (like from 10 to 11)
> you had to completely reinstall the operation system. Is that the case now?
That has *never* been the case. Debian has always supported in-place
upgrades betwe
When I used to use Debian when a new release came out (like from 10 to 11) you
had to completely reinstall the operation system. Is that the case now?
ran the 512 check sum on a copy of
Debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and ran the Graphical Install mode on
the 1.0 TD SSD on my Computer. The installation went smoothly without
any warning or error messages.
I logged in as root to set up the Desktop and, much to my surprise,
found that my previous
phical Install mode on
the 1.0 TD SSD on my Computer. The installation went smoothly
without any warning or error messages.
I logged in as root to set up the Desktop and, much to my surprise,
found that my previous Desktop configuration was still there!!???
This was also the case when I logged i
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