On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 03:32:11PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> OK - - - good to know. For many years it was /boot, / (or /root),
> /usr, /var, /tmp,
> swap, /usr/local and /home. I've had enough issues because / was too small,
> ditto for /usr.
> So on a new system I can drop /boot and only add
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 12:10 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> | From: o1bigtenor via talk
>
> Note: I am only an amateur sysadmin.
And I am not even that good - - - grin but i'se a learning that too!
>
> | One of my linux mentors, who calls himself a linux dinosaur (started on
> | a
| From: o1bigtenor via talk
Note: I am only an amateur sysadmin.
| One of my linux mentors, who calls himself a linux dinosaur (started on
| a System V on a pc)
Picky picky: System V isn't Linux. It's UNIX.
I first used UNIX seriously with 4th or 5th Edition in 1975. But I
first became
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:10 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> TL;DR: lots of history, some explanation of why things are done certain
> ways.
>
> | From: o1bigtenor via talk
>
> | OK - - - good to know. For many years it was
> | /boot,
>
> Covered well by Lennart.
>
> This first came up
TL;DR: lots of history, some explanation of why things are done certain
ways.
| From: o1bigtenor via talk
| OK - - - good to know. For many years it was
| /boot,
Covered well by Lennart.
This first came up for me with UNIX System V release 2 on a PC. The
boot loader only understood a a
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk
wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:53:06PM +, D. Joe via talk wrote:
>> To the best of my understanding, these tools are built with the assumption
>> that one wants to run just the OS that invokes them.
>>
>> Although the Debian
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:53:06PM +, D. Joe via talk wrote:
> To the best of my understanding, these tools are built with the assumption
> that one wants to run just the OS that invokes them.
>
> Although the Debian wiki has some hints
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Grub
>
> this seems to be
On 14/09/18 10:22, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> So I've installed both of these systems (more than once each) they
> have their own partitions for everything but boot and efi yet I'm only
> seeing one system available on grub (depending upon the last install
> as to which). So I'm doing something
On a test machine I had installed Debian Enlightenment. first, and then
Manjaro second. Manjaro screwed up the booting. I repeatedly used the
Ubuntu Boot Repair disk to get me unstuck. The Boot Repair disk is Linux
agnostic.
Don
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 12:24, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> On
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:53 AM, D. Joe via talk wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:22:20AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the
>> choice of which when I boot in.
>
> [...]
>
>> So I've installed both of these
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:22:20AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the
> choice of which when I boot in.
[...]
> So I've installed both of these systems (more than once each) they
> have their own partitions for
Have you tried the Ubuntu Boot Repair disk? That usually works for me.
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 10:22, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I have had it working before but I can't seem to get things right this
> time.
>
> I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the
>
Greetings
I have had it working before but I can't seem to get things right this time.
I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the
choice of which when I boot in.
Wanting to have available both debian stable (9.5 at present) and
debian testing (10). This is so I can
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