On 12/9/24 20:51, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/9/24 06:59, gene heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
If your computer is crashing within a minute, consider printing this
e-mail.
A: It didn't last long enough to even get this msg.
B: I dl'd the beta from the mozilla site, works differently but has not
crashed in about 36 hours now. It didn't crash if the debian supplied
version wasn't running so the dl was w/o excitement.
I assume the subject "restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze"
refers to your Asus PRIME Z370-A II desktop/ workstation/ storage
server computer (?).
Yes, its stable as long as the debian version of t-bird wasn't running,
start it and it locked the system up while fetching the initial imap
scan for new msgs. I didn't track how many times I tried, 10 or more I
guess.
I suggest:
1. Disconnect all internal and external drives.
2. Connect the 1 TB WD Black M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 SSD into motherboard
slot M.2_1.
3. Boot into Setup, reset all settings to factory defaults, save, and
exit.
4. Boot the Debian Stable installer into a rescue shell or boot
Clonezilla. Connect a large USB HDD with free space. Back up the M.2
SSD to the USB HDD. Connect another large USB HDD with free space and
backup again. Power down. Disconnect USB HDD's.
5. Boot the Debian Stable installer into a rescue shell. Zero fill
or secure erase the M.2 SSD.
5. Do a fresh install of Debian with a supported graphical desktop
environment (I use Xfce). Keep it simple and small (16 GB). Only
install official Debian packages. Record every question asked by d-i
and your answers -- use pencil and paper if you do not have an
available computer. Power down.
6. Boot the Debian installer into a rescue shell or boot Clonezilla.
Connect a large USB HDD with free space. Use dd(1) to take an image
of the M.2 SSD to the HDD. Repeat with second USB HDD. Power down.
Disconnect USB HDD's.
7. Boot into the new OS. Reconnect/ reconfigure the various data
drives, one data set at a time. Back up each data set as you go.
8. Install a hypervisor. Add a partition to the M.2 SSD for virtual
machines. Create a VM for your daily driver and install whatever OS
and desktop you please. Create VM's for each of your specialty
applications with whatever software each needs. Configure host data
set access as required for each VM. Recover anything needed from the
M.2 SSD image from step #4. Shutdown, snapshot, and export/ backup
each VM as you go.
David
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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