Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-06 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 13:17, Pablo Brasero Moreno wrote: > > If you build and install the default image as described in the manual on > section 16.2[1], do you get the same issue? As I said in a different email, I found out what the problem was. (It was that I had run the system once without cha

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-06 Thread Pablo Brasero Moreno
If you build and install the default image as described in the manual on section 16.2[1], do you get the same issue? If not, would you be able to do some trial&error to see what package or config you may have added that is causing the problem? [1] https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/htm

Re: A couple of dumb questions 1) Solved

2020-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 19:42, andy pugh wrote: > I am still struggling with this. I could not think of a way to get the > actual text, but here is a screenshot of /var/syslog > https://photos.app.goo.gl/nSbFA9j8hZ2RAy5a6 A more talented developer on the same project tried some experiments in the

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 01:02, andy pugh wrote: > > 1) lb is making the creation of a liveCD surprisingly easy, but the > one I have built does not seem to be able to install: I am still struggling with this. I could not think of a way to get the actual text, but here is a screenshot of /var/syslog

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 09:23, Michael . wrote: > Take out the packages you don't want, add the packages you do want. It > really isn't all that hard (and no I'm not being sarcastic). No, you are right. I was anticipating a much longer list. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium a

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-05 Thread Michael .
And network-manager-gnome or wicd for network connection On 05/07/2020, Michael . wrote: >>That sounds like a bit of a chore, I have no idea what it takes to put >>together a Desktop like XFCE, Mate etc. > Go to packages.debian.org and do a search for task-xfce-desktop then > look at the list of

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-05 Thread Michael .
>That sounds like a bit of a chore, I have no idea what it takes to put >together a Desktop like XFCE, Mate etc. Go to packages.debian.org and do a search for task-xfce-desktop then look at the list of packages that are Dependencies and the packages that are recommended Dependencies. light-locker

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-04 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 02:41, Michael . wrote: > 2) if you don't want items listed in the metapackage try apt-pinning, > the only other alternative is to write a list including things in the > metapackage you do want but not things you don't want. That sounds like a bit of a chore, I have no idea

Re: A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-04 Thread Michael .
>From memory the 2017 stuff for 1) was me but I can't remember how it all went. 2) if you don't want items listed in the metapackage try apt-pinning, the only other alternative is to write a list including things in the metapackage you do want but not things you don't want. 3) it used to be possib

A couple of dumb questions

2020-07-04 Thread andy pugh
1) lb is making the creation of a liveCD surprisingly easy, but the one I have built does not seem to be able to install: "debian install "the debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)"" Googling this seems to find a lot from 2017, but nothing more recent. Perhaps someone knows what