On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:47:54PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hello Haines,
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> >I'm moving from Debian Wheezy 32-bit to Devuan Jessie 64-bit ... [*]
>
> I'd say that probably does qualify as stressing the installer, even if
> it's only ever so sligh
Hello Haines,
On Fri, 9 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
I'm moving from Debian Wheezy 32-bit to Devuan Jessie 64-bit ... [*]
I'd say that probably does qualify as stressing the installer, even if
it's only ever so slightly. :)
* Apologies, spelling of 'Devuan' corrected for the search engines.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:40:39PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> >The problem was more worked around than resolved.
> >
> >After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether
> >DVD or netinst ISO, I knew the problem
Hello again,
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
The problem was more worked around than resolved.
After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether
DVD or netinst ISO, I knew the problem wasn't with the disk. I installed
Devuan Jessie more or less successfully on a
The problem was more worked around than resolved.
After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether
DVD or netinst ISO, I knew the problem wasn't with the disk. I installed
Devuan Jessie more or less successfully on a new disk without the old
disk being connected. Then I rec
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:42:43PM -0400, Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> Am I understanding correctly that you are running the Devuan installer
> executable from a running 32-bit Debian system?
No. The 32-bit Debian system is shutdown down, the Devuan installer key
is inserted and it is booted. I oft
Interim report.
Without USB back drive installed, I installed the Jessie DVD ISO from
key. Do simply installation routine.
When it came to partitioning, I accepted a single partition on entire
target disk. Oddly my backup USB drive still reported as a possible
target even though it is disconnecte
Did a re-install from DVD ISO on key.
I first commented all commands to boot Devuan partitions from my Debian
fstab. In BIOS I changed disk priority so that the Debian disk would
boot.
I booted the Devuan installer and choose expert install.
I select all defaults unless otherwise noted.
Detect
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Another anomaly is what when I boot the old devuan, the boot goes to
> recovery mode despite what is selected in the GRUB menu. A control-D
> continues the boot normally. It showed up only fairly recently. But
> since I seldom reboot
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:54:22PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hello Haines,
>
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> >I have an installation routine I've used since Lenny and perhaps
> >even Etch. I stuck to it, and generally accepts defaults.
>
> A list of exactly what you started with
Hello Haines,
On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
I have an installation routine I've used since Lenny and perhaps
even Etch. I stuck to it, and generally accepts defaults.
A list of exactly what you started with and exactly what you did,
step-by-step, would be more useful to the problem-
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 09:54:38AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> I don't know exactly what your custom "installation routine" entails,
> but since there have been a few dozen thousands successful Devuan
> installations in the last few months, and nobody has reported anything
> even remotely similar to th
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:00:04PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Ged, thank you for the reply. But it leaves questions in my mind.
>
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 02:04:05PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
> > >Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well.
> >
> > Considering what you write below, I'm n
Ged, thank you for the reply. But it leaves questions in my mind.
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 02:04:05PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> >Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well.
>
> Considering what you write below, I'm not entirely convinced. :)
>
> >I did not install desktop packages during in
Hello again,
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well.
Considering what you write below, I'm not entirely convinced. :)
I did not install desktop packages during install, but instead xorg
afterwards along with a lot of other packages.
This start
Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well. I did not install desktop
packages during install, but instead xorg afterwards along with a lot of
other packages.
I went to starx:
/usr/bin/mcookie: not found
Couldn't create cookie
$ ls /usr/bin/ | grep mcookie
mcookie
$ echo $PATH
...
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