Hi all, Just want to report a successful install of a basic ASCII system on a Dell Vostro 3360, followed by an equally successful upgrade to Beowulf.
My Vostro was a bit odd in that it has a 32GB SSD as /dev/sdb and a 500GB HDD as /dev/sda. The BIOS only lets one boot from /dev/sda. That notwithstanding, I put / on /dev/sdb :-) As long as you take care to install GRUB in the MBR of /dev/sda that works fine. My only gripe about the ASCII installer was that it let me select an init system that was not included in the netinst image that I used. I prefer to do air-gapped installs and set up the network afterwards (once I have a deny-all packet filter going) so there was no way for the installer to go fetch openrc :-/ # Not really a gripe but something to be aware of, if you forego the # setting of a root password, you will be able to use sudo to elevate # your privileges for maintenance work but you will *not* be able to # boot in recovery mode :-o With the ASCII base system installed, I apt-mark'd all packages as automatically installed, told APT to auto-remove any packages that were merely recommended or suggested (and to not bother installing any of those in the future). Then I apt-mark'd a few packages that I really need/want as manually installed and `apt auto-remove`d. In terms of APT configuration settings, that looks like APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"; APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant "false"; APT::Install-Suggests "false"; APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "true"; APT::Get::Purge "true"; Mind you, this is not exactly for the faint of heart. Following that, I set up networking and APT sources to point to beowulf and upgraded. Worked like a charm. I have since installed task-xfce-desktop, pared that down to a minimal set of manually installed packages and am now trying to figure out what's needed to allow the logged in desktop user to shutdown/reboot. There has been a fair bit of change in this area in the last couple of months and I am much confused as to where beowulf is heading in terms of display manager (slim? lightdm?) and policy management solution of choice (consolekit? polkit? elogin?). Hints welcome in the mean time. # For the time being at least, I'm using slim (w/ xscreensaver, way too # retro these days ;-) and seem to be using polkit with elogind. There # are no consolekit packages on my system. # Wait! I just noticed libck-connector0. # Hmm, I see I have libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 installed but no # libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0. Is that a/the problem? Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng