Re: RFC: Switching guided partitioning to LVM by default?

2017-08-06 Thread Joel Rees
ecommended, guided option with a lot of hand-holding, sure, especially if the default includes making a MSWindows readable partition for sharing. But that is not whole disk. Forcing people to do what we think is good for them never works out well. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: Acer c720 OS replacement

2015-09-17 Thread Joel Rees
2015/09/17 4:27 "Jake Lar" : > > Hello, I'm replacing the Chrome operating system on my Acer c720 That is an Intel processor. > and I'm not sure which netinst CD image is appropriate for the Exynos 5250 GAIA ARM processor That is not the processor in the c720. > (haswell architecture). Haswell

Bug#771040: installation-reports: Messes up Mac OS 9 driver partitions

2014-11-26 Thread Joel Rees
ve involved, for me. Tangerine clamshell, and the ROM was written with the assumption of max 120G HD. Using a 160G HD made it harder to keep the MAC OS-9 partition bootable. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own

Re: LVM installer: select percentage of VG to use

2014-10-04 Thread Joel Rees
of every tool we make and let others use. At least, in our free/libre/open world, the source is open and can be learned from, to some extent, by those willing to look. Joel Rees It's five in the morning, I need to go to bed.

Re: Use dedicated partition for /boot/grub instead of /boot

2014-08-19 Thread Joel Rees
2014/08/18 14:57 "Christopher Chavez" <2000...@gmail.com>: > > (Please let me know if there's a better venue for collecting feedback for this > idea, or additional ones I should solicit feedback from. I primarily use Ubuntu, > but I assume this is as upstream as it gets.) Upstream relative to what

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
let it. Of course, that means upgrading to Jessy is going to be two days of down time. -- Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Joel Rees wrote: (Having booted up a real OS, but still using Google's webmail fake MUA. heh.) > [...] > 2014/08/11 7:32 "Joel Rees" : >> 2014/08/08 6:58 "Jordi Mallach" : >> >> [...] >> > systemd e

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
2014/08/11 7:32 "Joel Rees" : > > 2014/08/08 6:58 "Jordi Mallach" : > > > > > Hi Debian, > > > > It's been around 9 months since tasksel changed (for real) the default > > desktop for new installs. At the time of the change, it was

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
2014/08/08 6:58 "Jordi Mallach" : > > Hi Debian, > > It's been around 9 months since tasksel changed (for real) the default > desktop for new installs. At the time of the change, it was mentioned > the issue would be revisited before the freeze, around debconf time. > > Well, it's roughly that time

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
g what time I might have had, plus a bit of work time I can't afford.) -- Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: installing debian

2014-05-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:42 AM, monique morris wrote: > i would like to install debian on my mac g5 because i'm interested in this > linux ox > linux ox? ;-) Try this list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ And these pages: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > [...] > > > >> So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is &g

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
> Have you tried not using a Macintosh partition map -- using a DOS/BIOS partition map instead? Then you should be able to use the more normal partitioning tools. Or, kind of the reverse, have you tried partitioning it with the Mac OS installer's disk utility? Or pdisk? -- Joel Rees Be carefu

Re: Problem with rogue translator

2013-09-13 Thread Joel Rees
httto ... > To UNSUBSCRIBE, [...] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232c2e2.2030...@foramnagaidhlig.net Hmm. I wonder what one might find here: http://lists.debian.org/ ;-P -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: serious problem, I don't know where to report!

2013-08-17 Thread Joel Rees
asically forced the double width characters to be included in Unicode, IIRC. > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > ste...@pyro.eu.org Do Steven's comments help, Jack? I sure wasn't firing on all cylinders when I posted this morning. May not be firing on all cylinders, now. H

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
up seeing it, but I'll post a link to the rant for reference: <http://reiisi.homedns.org/~joel/cs/security/makesafeusers.html>. Like much on my website, it needs a lot of work, but perhaps it would provide some food for thought here. Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
y/makesafeusers.html>. Like much on my website, it needs a lot of work, but perhaps it would provide some food for thought here. Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iN=3OO6myWmUwMbSpKzvTAZ-=ZO5=izf+gvy5cypxl...@mail.gmail.com

want some advice on grub 2 chaining issues

2011-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
Want to figure out whether to file a bug on this or not, and maybe how many. Three drives, four installs of Linux at this time. 80G drive hung off the motherboard's controller, 16OG and 320G hung off the expansion card's controller in the master positions of the primary and secondary channels: 0