Re: Debian installation on Macbook Pro 2015

2023-03-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 10:15:44AM -0300, Yuri Musachio wrote: > Hey Ragnar! > > There is a netinst version to Mac (I think it's for Mac) here: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ > I never tried to install this image, so I don't know if this will work > correctly

Re: Debian 11 freezes on Dell Latitude e6520

2021-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
e any graphical environment until after the drivers you want are compiled / installed and available. It was hard work to do once, then I forgot and had to do it all again and document it - so now I remember it well :) All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater > > > El Mon, 27 Dec 2021 0

Re: Re: Debian 11 freezes on Dell Latitude e6520

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Thanks to David Christensen over on debian-user mailing list: Your E6520 is a hybrid laptop with two chipsets: one Intel graphics, one Nvidia. On battery power, it will use the Intel, when plugged in to higher resolution displays or whatever, it will use the Nvidia. This is also similar to high e

Re: Debian 11 freezes on Dell Latitude e6520

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:47:27AM +0100, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Debian on a Dell Latitude e6520 for ten years now. > At present, it runs without problem an up-to-date Debian 10 system. > > From the beginning, before upgrading to any new release, I tried its > l

Re: Current Corresponding Ubuntu Version

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:35:16AM -0400, Joshua Blagden wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Handbrake from the official Handbrake repository so I > can get a newer version than the one in the Debian Testing repository. I > would just use the one from the Debian Testing repository, but it has a

Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

2016-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:29:54PM +0530, Jos Collin wrote: > Yes, I have seen that option. But what about putting /root in another disk ? Use the expert/manual partitioning option. All he best, AndyC

Re: FLAWED INSTALL DELL 8500

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 09:19:15PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, James Harris wrote: > > making a new one using uNetBootin. The installer for Windows/Mac/Linux can > > be found at: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net . > > Please don't use unetbootin. It has been known to mangle

Re: new laptop specs: i7 CPU, graphics card, & RAM

2013-10-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:45:33AM -0400, ken wrote: > At long last it's time for a new laptop. I'm planning to run a lot > on it: at least 3 VMs (Windows, Linux, and Mac) under virtualbox. > plus server stuff like apache, MySQL, a CMS or two (likely drupal > and wordpress) in addition to a lot of

Re: Debian 7.0.0 and Acer Aspire 7250

2013-05-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:48:04PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote: > Some time ago I have bought this Acer Aspire 7250. Seems to be a > piece of junk. Preinstalled windows works well as long as you don't > mess with its preinstalled crap. Otherwise it loses functionality. > > I have run Fedora Core with