Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > > In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a primary > > partition that is bootable and the mount point /. > You probably want to set this partition to unused (or whatever it's

[DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-09 Thread Joel Roth
Colleagues! Earlier in this thread, we learned that installing xserver-xorg-legacy allows you to run X the old way, as a setuid script. The default upgrade path from jessie -- in which X11 was setuid-only -- migrates to a new xserver-xorg in which the setuid mechanism is replaced. In order to

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/09/2018 01:13 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I'm installing ascii on a disk, sdc, in a machine that has two other disks, one of which, sda already has a bootable devuan jessie on it. The installation goes well until I go to write my partitioning of sdc to disk. I get the error message: "Two file

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Simon Hobson
Haines Brown wrote: > In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a primary > partition that is bootable and the mount point /. You probably want to set this partition to unused (or whatever it's called, it's a looong time since I last did this) so that it doesn't appear in

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:19:01PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 09/06/2018 à 22:13, Haines Brown a écrit : > >I'm installing ascii on a disk, sdc, in a machine that has two other disks, > >one of which, sda already has a bootable devuan jessie on it. > > > >The installation goes well until I go

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/06/2018 à 22:13, Haines Brown a écrit : I'm installing ascii on a disk, sdc, in a machine that has two other disks, one of which, sda already has a bootable devuan jessie on it. The installation goes well until I go to write my partitioning of sdc to disk. I get the error message: "Two

[DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Haines Brown
I'm installing ascii on a disk, sdc, in a machine that has two other disks, one of which, sda already has a bootable devuan jessie on it. The installation goes well until I go to write my partitioning of sdc to disk. I get the error message: "Two file systems are assigned to the same mount point

Re: [DNG] [OT] Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

2018-06-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 19:56:50 +1000, Andrew wrote in message : > On 09/06/18 15:49, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > There's something fishy about this story. > >  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44368813 > > It was first published on June 5th and now dated June 6th, I first > > read the story on

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-09 Thread Irrwahn
Veteran Unix Admins wrote on 09.06.2018 07:05: > Dear Init Freedom Lovers > > Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! > > We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is > finally available.[...] Omedetō gozaimasu, Devuan ASCII! Yet another important milestone on the

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-09 Thread Daniel Reurich
Thanks to the work of my friends and fellow hackers we have another blow for freedom. An OS to truly be proud of, beautifully stable and just as it should be. Big shout out to (in no particular order) golinux, KatolaZ, fsmithred, gnu_srs, jaromil, parzyd, Evilham, NewGNUguy and many others.

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 at 07:05:12 +0200 Veteran Unix Admins wrote: > Dear Init Freedom Lovers > > Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! > > We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is > finally available. I did notice: $ lsb_release -d Description:Devuan

Re: [DNG] [OT] Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

2018-06-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 09/06/18 15:49, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > There's something fishy about this story. >  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44368813 > It was first published on June 5th and now dated June 6th, I first read > the story on June 5th at the same link.  Not recoverable, not repairable > or so they