Re: [DNG] Sort-of one-off thanks message

2020-01-02 Thread Rainer Weikusat via Dng
Rainer Weikusat via Dng writes: > Bernard Rosset via Dng writes: >> Thank you for those precious steps on how to swap a kernel version in >> an ISO! > > [...] > > Something I should have mentioned as well: Another I forgot about: The default kernel RAM block device size is 4M. This is way too sm

Re: [DNG] Sort-of one-off thanks message

2020-01-01 Thread Rainer Weikusat via Dng
Bernard Rosset via Dng writes: > Thank you for those precious steps on how to swap a kernel version in > an ISO! [...] Something I should have mentioned as well: The installation kernel needs (at least) support for initramfs/initrd, the RAM block device and devtmpfs compiled in order to boot the

Re: [DNG] Sort-of one-off thanks message

2020-01-01 Thread Bernard Rosset via Dng
Thank you for those precious steps on how to swap a kernel version in an ISO! It will sure prove valuable to some people in the future. I wish I had known how to do that a month ago in order to install ascii on a Dell Latitude 7400, which Intel network chipset was not handled by the shipped ker

[DNG] Sort-of one-off thanks message

2019-12-30 Thread Rainer Weikusat via Dng
After spending the time since 2016 with waiting how things will turn out, a dying disk and certain recent Debian moves prompted me to stop using this system (after 21 years) and migrate to the current, stable Devuan instead[*]. Thank you for keeping the system I had been using all these years avail