Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine
On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 13:45 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-01-14 at 12:58, Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 11:15 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > Newer-model Intel chipsets specifically prohibit booting to > > > internal hard drives in "legacy boot" mode. > > > > Surely it isn't the chipset which determines what disk format you can > > boot from, it's the firmware. > > I'd have thought so too, but the reading I did on this a while back > (after discovering that booting to MBR-based internal hard drives was > impossible on the newest computer models at my workplace) led me to > statements that firmware writers can't support this anymore, because > Intel's chipset implementation specifically does not let them do it. > > In practice, now that I research this again in depth, not only can I not > find those statements again, all the reports of this behavior in the > real world seem to be on Dell computers. I remember finding it stated > that Dell had no choice in this because of what Intel had done, but I'm > not finding those again now. > > I *do* find multiple statements that Intel is dropping all BIOS support > from its UEFI firmwares (including, presumably, those it creates with / > for its motherboard partners) by sometime in 2020, which has already > passed; it's possible that that might include this behavior, but I'm not > finding explicit statements of or reports about that just yet. That seems more likely, i.e. OEMs using Intel firmware for Intel chipsets and Intel dropping the Compatibility Support Module (CSM). And, reading some more, perhaps things are chipset related after all, if the CSM runs in old 16-bit mode and it can't access all the hardware it needs. I don't know enough about this, I would have thought that CSM support world somehow call out to UEFI to do the actual device work, but after having passing dealings many years ago with the open source EFI code (EDK2) it not something I would want to look into. (Me shudders at the thought :-) -- Tixy
Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine
On 2021-01-14 23:21, Linux-Fan wrote: Finally out of curiosity: You mention using CPIO archives. Do you have any input files above 8 GiB for your backup processes? I always thought that to be the limit of CPIO? My backups do not contain large files within the cpio archives, so I don't know whether that would be a problem. But some of the archives are much larger than 8 GiB. I've just realized that I may never actually have restored such large backups, but I have created contents listings for them, and if cpio can do that, surely it can also restore (but I'll try a real restore just to be sure). Since cpio as I use it works from and to standard input/output, I would not expect it to notice the archive size in any way. I back up with cd / && find home -xdev -print0 | cpio -o0 -H crc | gzip | openssl enc -md sha256 -salt -pass file:passwordfile -aes-128-cbc >backup.cpio.gz.aes Thanks to you and everybody else who answered my question. -- Jesper Dybdal https://www.dybdal.dk
Re: Looking for help with locale configuration
On Jo, 14 ian 21, 19:06:34, Rasmus MK wrote: > > During the Debian installation (graphical) I configured my locale to be > "en_SE.UTF-8". Can you explain how you managed to do that? Right now im trying the latest daily (for arm64, but it shouldn't matter) and if I select Language: English and Country: Sweden the installer is telling me this locale doesn't exist and presents me with a list to chose from that doesn't include en_SE. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Looking for help with locale configuration
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:14:53AM +, Rasmus MK wrote: > > > I use KDE. If I look in Settings -> Regional Settings -> Format it says > > > en_SE.UTF-8 (no adjustments). > > > LANG=en_SE.UTF-8 There is no such locale in the "dpkg-reconfigure locales" list on my buster system. │ Locales to be generated: │ │ │ │[ ] en_PH.UTF-8 UTF-8 ↑ │ │[ ] en_SC.UTF-8 UTF-8 ▮ │ │[ ] en_SG ISO-8859-1 ▒ │ │[ ] en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8 ▒ │ │[ ] en_US ISO-8859-1 ↓ │ If KDE is offering to let you use locales that don't exist on the underlying system, I'd say that's a bug in KDE.
Re: Looking for help with locale configuration
On Friday, 15 January 2021 03:53:54 CET David Wright wrote: > On Thu 14 Jan 2021 at 19:06:34 (+), Rasmus MK wrote: > > I'm looking for help in understanding how locales work and how to > > configure my system running Debian Testing. > > > > During the Debian installation (graphical) I configured my locale to be > > "en_SE.UTF-8". > > Recently a python script crashed with the error message "unsupported > > locale > > setting" after trying to set LC_ALL to an empty string and I cannot get it > > to work with the en_SE.UTF-8 locale. > > > > I use KDE. If I look in Settings -> Regional Settings -> Format it says > > en_SE.UTF-8 (no adjustments). > > > > The output of `locale` is: > > > > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or > > directory > > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory > > LANG=en_SE.UTF-8 > > LANGUAGE= > > LC_CTYPE="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_NUMERIC="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_TIME="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_COLLATE="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_MONETARY="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_MESSAGES="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_PAPER="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_NAME="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_ADDRESS="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_SE.UTF-8" > > LC_ALL= > > Those error messages probably indicate that you (accidentally or > otherwise) unset all the locales. It looks as if you might have done > this by selecting a locale that's unavailable on your system. (I don't > know which configuration method you're using.) The selection of the non-existent en_SE.UTF-8 locale was made during the installation process. > > I want to have the exact locale settings of en_SE.UTF-8. If possible I > > would also prefer to avoid being dependant on my desktop environment to > > configure this (i.e. use localectl or similar). Obviously I also want the > > Python script to work. > > Has anybody written that locale? You could write your own, as there's > any number of examples in the directories above, and much of the task > is just adding copy this and copy that. You would put your own file > into /usr/local/share/i18n/locales/xx_XX.UTF-8 and its name into the > file /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. Then dpkg-reconfigure locales > would offer it amongst the alternatives. (NB Be aware that locales are > not added to the system cumulatively: you have to specify all you want > each time you configure them.) I will absolutely create it myself! Thanks for the advice. > How much changes for you when you run your software using these > two locales? Which one suits your software the best? You might find > that you don't have to set them all to the same value, eg LC_CTYPE > for changing letter case, and LC_MESSAGES for error messages etc. Although I think I will go for creating en_SE.UTF-8, this response clears out some questions. I think I can how I should deal with locales now.
Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?
On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 07:33:14 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > My wife's "desktop" is an ASRock DeskMini A300W -- a box of > about that size, in which I placed a 3400G, 32GB RAM and an NVMe > SSD. She drives a 4K monitor from the HDMI port. Debian Buster. > > It has a VGA port. > > The new version is the X300W, which costs about $30 more, takes > a newer revision of AMD APU, and still has a VGA port available. > > My two criticisms: it's a bit of a pain to put together the > first time if you have giant fingers, which I do. It would be > nice to have more USB ports, though this can be solved with a > USB3 hub. Dan (and all), Thanks again for the pointer, but I'll add a 3rd criticism and a "workaround": Aside: I am still looking, and am considering some of the ASRocks and also some Lenovo (and maybe other) refurbished models. Aside: I usually don't buy (or even consider) things like refurbished disk drives (what do they do, repolish the disk surfaces? ;-) (I'm being facetious)) or devices like laptops that include disk drives -- partly because of what I read once about adding memory and replacing the disk drive in a recent HP laptop (in the old days, it was easy) -- early in the instructions it talked about the need to remove something like 56 screws -- but after (later) reading a little more , it really depended on how much you wanted to replace. On a mini-PC I'm confident about my ability to replace a disk drive without too much trouble. The criticism: The ASRock web pages (well, almost all of them), with the dark images on a black background were just about impossible for me to see / read (I got a headache). (Even my "trick" of selecting / highlighting the page wasn't much help.) (Well, the page for one model, I forget which, was readable with a white background.) And no prices. (I realized later that might make some sense as apparently they don't sell direct, but still, it would be helpful to see an MSRP ;-) The workaround: Eventually I found that Newegg was an "e-tailer" for ASRock, so I went to the Newegg site and am looking at the offerings there. (I don't think they sell all models (I didn't notice any of the "Bee"s, iirc.) But the pages are readable and they do show prices.
Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine
Jesper Dybdal writes: On 2021-01-14 23:21, Linux-Fan wrote: Finally out of curiosity: You mention using CPIO archives. Do you have any input files above 8 GiB for your backup processes? I always thought that to be the limit of CPIO? My backups do not contain large files within the cpio archives, so I don't know whether that would be a problem. But some of the archives are much larger than 8 GiB. Thank you for confirming this. I've just realized that I may never actually have restored such large backups, but I have created contents listings for them, and if cpio can do that, surely it can also restore (but I'll try a real restore just to be sure). As long as the individual files are below 8 GiB (in your case: 4 GiB), it should be fine. See below. Since cpio as I use it works from and to standard input/output, I would not expect it to notice the archive size in any way. Yes, that is what I think too. The 8 GiB are only a restriction of the individual input files, not for the resulting archive files. Here is the except from GNU CPIOs manpage cpio(1): | -H, --format=FORMAT |Use given archive FORMAT. Valid formats are (the number in |parentheses gives maximum size for individual archive member): | |binThe obsolete binary format. (2147483647 bytes) | |odcThe old (POSIX.1) portable format. (8589934591 bytes) | |newc The new (SVR4) portable format, which supports file sys‐ | tems having more than 65536 i-nodes. (4294967295 bytes) | |crcThe new (SVR4) portable format with a checksum added. | |tarThe old tar format. (8589934591 bytes) | |ustar The POSIX.1 tar format. Also recognizes GNU tar ar‐ | chives, which are similar but not identical. (8589934591 | bytes) | |hpbin The obsolete binary format used by HPUX's cpio (which | stores device files differently). | |hpodc The portable format used by HPUX's cpio (which stores de‐ | vice files differently). I back up with cd / && find home -xdev -print0 | cpio -o0 -H crc | gzip | openssl enc -md sha256 -salt -pass file:passwordfile -aes-128-cbc >backup.cpio.gz.aes Hence in your case, the limit should be effectively max. 4 GiB per input file. As it is a streamed format, there is no practical limit on the resulting output archive file. Thank you for the `openssl` commandline. Linux-Fan öö pgpYMeW34kppj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine
On 2021-01-15 18:22, Linux-Fan wrote: I back up with cd / && find home -xdev -print0 | cpio -o0 -H crc | gzip | openssl enc -md sha256 -salt -pass file:passwordfile -aes-128-cbc >backup.cpio.gz.aes Thank you for the `openssl` commandline. However, since I upgraded to buster, that openssl command gives the warning: *** WARNING : deprecated key derivation used. Using -iter or -pbkdf2 would be better. I have not yet studied what that means in detail and precisely what other parameters are better to use. -- Jesper Dybdal https://www.dybdal.dk
Re: Looking for help with locale configuration
On Vi, 15 ian 21, 17:45:06, Rasmus MK wrote: > On fredag 15 januari 2021 kl. 13:56:17 CET Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 14 ian 21, 19:06:34, Rasmus MK wrote: > > > During the Debian installation (graphical) I configured my locale to be > > > "en_SE.UTF-8". > > > > Can you explain how you managed to do that? > > > > Right now im trying the latest daily (for arm64, but it shouldn't > > matter) and if I select Language: English and Country: Sweden the > > installer is telling me this locale doesn't exist and presents me with a > > list to chose from that doesn't include en_SE. > > Unfortunately, I do not remember exactly. It was about two months ago and my > first Debian installation ever. > I remember installing from the Buster live USB stick because I had to change > in /etc/apt/sources.list to enable testing. Also I used the "Advanced > Graphical Installer" in order to select KDE as the desktop environment during > installation. > > I have another computer here that I'm planning to install on in a week or so. > I will try to reproduce it on that one. As far as I know the live image is using the Calamares installer, which is different than the Debian Installer. In case you can reproduce this kindly report a bug against the calamares package, it probably shouldn't allow selecting a locale that doesn't exist (in the final system). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Installation report
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:24:39 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > Installed via debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-netinst.iso. Expert > install via text using a RW-CD. Language and keyboard are US English. > Did not preseed d-i. Addendum: The graphical installer bombed. I don't think it could launch X. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Looking for help with locale configuration
On fredag 15 januari 2021 kl. 13:56:17 CET Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 14 ian 21, 19:06:34, Rasmus MK wrote: > > During the Debian installation (graphical) I configured my locale to be > > "en_SE.UTF-8". > > Can you explain how you managed to do that? > > Right now im trying the latest daily (for arm64, but it shouldn't > matter) and if I select Language: English and Country: Sweden the > installer is telling me this locale doesn't exist and presents me with a > list to chose from that doesn't include en_SE. Unfortunately, I do not remember exactly. It was about two months ago and my first Debian installation ever. I remember installing from the Buster live USB stick because I had to change in /etc/apt/sources.list to enable testing. Also I used the "Advanced Graphical Installer" in order to select KDE as the desktop environment during installation. I have another computer here that I'm planning to install on in a week or so. I will try to reproduce it on that one.
Re: Looking for help with locale configuration
On fredag 15 januari 2021 kl. 13:58:09 CET Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:14:53AM +, Rasmus MK wrote: > > > > I use KDE. If I look in Settings -> Regional Settings -> Format it > > > > says > > > > en_SE.UTF-8 (no adjustments). > > > > > > > > LANG=en_SE.UTF-8 > > There is no such locale in the "dpkg-reconfigure locales" list on > my buster system. > > │ Locales to be generated: > │ │ > │ │[ ] en_PH.UTF-8 UTF-8 > ↑ │ │[ ] en_SC.UTF-8 UTF-8 > ▮ │ │[ ] en_SG ISO-8859-1 > ▒ │ │[ ] en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8 > ▒ │ │[ ] en_US ISO-8859-1 > ↓ │ > > If KDE is offering to let you use locales that don't exist on the underlying > system, I'd say that's a bug in KDE. Found it. Almost two years old: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403580
Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?
> Aside: I usually don't buy (or even consider) things like refurbished disk > drives (what do they do, repolish the disk surfaces? ;-) (I'm being > facetious)) or devices like laptops that include disk drives -- partly because > of what I read once about adding memory and replacing the disk drive in a > recent HP laptop (in the old days, it was easy) -- early in the instructions > it talked about the need to remove something like 56 screws -- but after > (later) reading a little more , it really depended on how much you wanted to > replace. I strongly recommend buying refurbished laptops, as long as they're good/reliable laptops: not only you save a lot of money, but also it gives you slightly-older laptops which makes sure Debian has had time to work out-of-the box in it, and on top of it all, you help reduce the enormous ecological impact of our crazy consumption of electronic gadgets (e.g. the production of a laptop consumes more energy than what the laptop will ever consume during its whole lifetime). On all the thinkpads I know, the 2½ drive can be swapped by removing a single screw (tho admittedly, this single screw lets you remove the drive + "caddy" and if you want to change the drive, you then needs to remove the 4 screws that attach the drive to the "caddy"). I suspect similar things apply to many other brands. > On a mini-PC I'm confident about my ability to replace a disk drive > without too much trouble. I'd expect you also need to handle 4-5 screws to remove a drive from a mini-PC. Stefan
sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian
In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the internet modem. (They were not connected to the internet modem because for whatever reason, directly connecting them made them very unstable and prone to crash.) But, nevertheless, the old hardware could use the mint box with no configuration on my part, and get out to the internet through it. Now, as it happens, i'm planning on upgrading that mint box to debian. In preparation for that, i'm trying to share the internet with them using another box, which has debian on it, and which is connected to the internet modem. The debian box has some address like 192.168.*.* on the internet modem network, and an address like 10.*.*.* connected to the old hardware, and the two networks have no direct connection, they just both hook up to my debian machine (one on the motherboard's ethernet, and one on a usb/ethernet device). For the old hardware, i can specify the address, a gateway, and a host for dns (all done by ip). I would choose the ip of the debian box for both the gateway and the dns, and i'd take the ip address of the old hardware to just be something unused (no need to run dhcpd on the debian box, i think). So i just need to know what to do on the debian box so that it can field requests to get ips from host names on the internet, and forward packets to the internet modem. Hopefully, it will be some simple tool like nm-connection-editor, but maybe it has to be a series of commands. If it is a series of commands, what are they? TIA for any info! dan
Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian
On 2021-01-16 05:02, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the internet modem. (They were not connected to the internet modem because for whatever reason, directly connecting them made them very unstable and prone to crash.) But, nevertheless, the old hardware could use the mint box with no configuration on my part, and get out to the internet through it. Now, as it happens, i'm planning on upgrading that mint box to debian. In preparation for that, i'm trying to share the internet with them using another box, which has debian on it, and which is connected to the internet modem. The debian box has some address like 192.168.*.* on the internet modem network, and an address like 10.*.*.* connected to the old hardware, and the two networks have no direct connection, they just both hook up to my debian machine (one on the motherboard's ethernet, and one on a usb/ethernet device). For the old hardware, i can specify the address, a gateway, and a host for dns (all done by ip). I would choose the ip of the debian box for both the gateway and the dns, and i'd take the ip address of the old hardware to just be something unused (no need to run dhcpd on the debian box, i think). So i just need to know what to do on the debian box so that it can field requests to get ips from host names on the internet, and forward packets to the internet modem. Hopefully, it will be some simple tool like nm-connection-editor, but maybe it has to be a series of commands. If it is a series of commands, what are they? TIA for any info! dan Bearing in mind I know little of what I speak I'd advise anybody to get a dedicated firewall/router between the local network and the internet. You can get a smallish PC for £20 which seems suitable with a minimum of 2 network cards or 4 I like pfsense which works with not much configuration and has lots of services and logging available if you want them. red -> ISP router green -> local network blue -> wireless can access internet but not local network orange -> demilitarized zone mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31
Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian
On 1/16/2021 6:02 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the internet modem. (They were not connected to the internet modem because for whatever reason, directly connecting them made them very unstable and prone to crash.) But, nevertheless, the old hardware could use the mint box with no configuration on my part, and get out to the internet through it. If you could share your internet connection to multiple devices, the internet modem you are refering to is probably a router with integrated modem. Okay, I'm nitpicking here but this might be useful for the below. Now, as it happens, i'm planning on upgrading that mint box to debian. I would suggest reinstalling Debian from scratch. In preparation for that, i'm trying to share the internet with them using another box, which has debian on it, and which is connected to the internet modem. The debian box has some address like 192.168.*.* on the internet modem network, and an address like 10.*.*.* connected to the old hardware, and the two networks have no direct connection, they just both hook up to my debian machine (one on the motherboard's ethernet, and one on a usb/ethernet device). For the old hardware, i can specify the address, a gateway, and a host for dns (all done by ip). I would choose the ip of the debian box for both the gateway and the dns, and i'd take the ip address of the old hardware to just be something unused (no need to run dhcpd on the debian box, i think). You can certainly use static addressing Dnsmasq has the advantage of conbining a DHCP and DNS server. So I would say using Dnsmasq instead of Dhcpd and Bind will be way easyier if you want to go with dinamic addressing So i just need to know what to do on the debian box so that it can field requests to get ips from host names on the internet, and forward packets to the internet modem. Hopefully, it will be some simple tool like nm-connection-editor, but maybe it has to be a series of commands. If it is a series of commands, what are they? It looks like you are using a desktop environment, you might be heading for trouble trying to mix GUI tools and serving internet connection to clients. What you need on that Debian box is to route the packages from your internal network to your external network (1, might be what you want). Unless you want to learn and play with it, I would suggest you, if you can afford, to buy a ''router' with no built-in modem that you would plug behind your ISP modem. 1) https://fedoramagazine.org/internet-connection-sharing-networkmanager/ -- John Doe
Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian
On 1/16/21 1:29 AM, john doe wrote: On 1/16/2021 6:02 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the internet modem. (They were not connected to the internet modem because for whatever reason, directly connecting them made them very unstable and prone to crash.) But, nevertheless, the old hardware could use the mint box with no configuration on my part, and get out to the internet through it. If you could share your internet connection to multiple devices, the internet modem you are refering to is probably a router with integrated modem. Okay, I'm nitpicking here but this might be useful for the below. Now, as it happens, i'm planning on upgrading that mint box to debian. I would suggest reinstalling Debian from scratch. In preparation for that, i'm trying to share the internet with them using another box, which has debian on it, and which is connected to the internet modem. The debian box has some address like 192.168.*.* on the internet modem network, and an address like 10.*.*.* connected to the old hardware, and the two networks have no direct connection, they just both hook up to my debian machine (one on the motherboard's ethernet, and one on a usb/ethernet device). For the old hardware, i can specify the address, a gateway, and a host for dns (all done by ip). I would choose the ip of the debian box for both the gateway and the dns, and i'd take the ip address of the old hardware to just be something unused (no need to run dhcpd on the debian box, i think). You can certainly use static addressing Dnsmasq has the advantage of conbining a DHCP and DNS server. So I would say using Dnsmasq instead of Dhcpd and Bind will be way easyier if you want to go with dinamic addressing So i just need to know what to do on the debian box so that it can field requests to get ips from host names on the internet, and forward packets to the internet modem. Hopefully, it will be some simple tool like nm-connection-editor, but maybe it has to be a series of commands. If it is a series of commands, what are they? It looks like you are using a desktop environment, you might be heading for trouble trying to mix GUI tools and serving internet connection to clients. What you need on that Debian box is to route the packages from your internal network to your external network (1, might be what you want). Unless you want to learn and play with it, I would suggest you, if you can afford, to buy a ''router' with no built-in modem that you would plug behind your ISP modem. And you should look for a router with more than four output ports-- there are a couple of such--so that when you want to add a printer or two and maybe hook a laptop into your network and possibly a separate scanner--you get the idea. . . . --doug 1) https://fedoramagazine.org/internet-connection-sharing-networkmanager/ -- John Doe
Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Installation report
On Vi, 15 ian 21, 13:37:04, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:24:39 -0700 > Charles Curley wrote: > > > Installed via debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-netinst.iso. Expert > > install via text using a RW-CD. Language and keyboard are US English. > > Did not preseed d-i. > > Addendum: The graphical installer bombed. I don't think it could launch > X. How about filing a bug against the pseudo-package 'installation-reports', preferably with 'reportbug' from the installed system so it can collect information and logs? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian
On Vi, 15 ian 21, 21:02:58, Dan Hitt wrote: > > So i just need to know what to do on the debian box so that it can field > requests to get ips from host names on the internet, and forward packets to > the internet modem. Hopefully, it will be some simple tool like > nm-connection-editor, but maybe it has to be a series of commands. If it > is a series of commands, what are they? In nm-connection-editor select the connection with the other system (*not* to the internet) and set the Method to "Shared to other computers" in the IPv4 tab (and IPv6 if you want so). Unfortunately the wording of the option is counterintuitive, it should probably be something like "allow other computers on this connection to use this computer's internet connection" (whichever that might be). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
