Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-13 Thread RavenLX
On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a partition whose label is "common". I could almost smack myself in the head. I had done that when I used to dual-boot Windows / Linux (now you can see why I'm not a fan of dual-boot, I guess! LOL!). I also used to dual boot SolydX and Soly

Re: A regression bug comparing Stretch to Jessie -was [Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints]

2017-05-13 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> FTR there are recent bugs which sound similar >> and discussion on the development and release >> lists which talk about mariadb and the current >> upgrade situation. > > Were you thinking of something in addition to > debian-release, debian-devel, a

Re: gnome 3.22 unable to authenticate to google account

2017-05-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 13.05.2017 um 18:36 schrieb Michael Biebl: > I'll ask the release team to unblock webkit2gtk 2.14.7-1 This happened in the mean time: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862502 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 May 2017 at 13:07:31 +0200, Błażej Popławski wrote: > I don't have to do this for purpose. I was just wondering if it can be done > without much work spent on it. > > This laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite A300. > Main OS is Win7. > I have plenty of space on my hard drive. As I wrote,

Re: gnome 3.22 unable to authenticate to google account

2017-05-13 Thread andy
On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 18:36 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Known bug. Requires a newer webkit2gtk which is currently only > available > in unstable. > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862469 > > > I'll ask the release team to unblock webkit2gtk 2.14.7-1 excellent, thank yo

Re: A regression bug comparing Stretch to Jessie -was [Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints]

2017-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2017 10:58 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... Not quite in the manner I suspect you assume . We come from different point-of-views. You evidently lean towards "power user". I have some characteristics of "mass market consumer". The points you listed appear likely to lead to

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2017 07:08 AM, RavenLX wrote: [snip] Also I hate dual-booting. I normally forget the other OS is there and it just sets there just taking up HD space instead. [snip] Having dual boot systems has it's advantages and disadvantages. But in my particular case, I've found virtual machines to

Re: gnome 3.22 unable to authenticate to google account

2017-05-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 13.05.2017 um 00:54 schrieb andy: > hello - > > i recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy through jessie and straight > on to stretch. almost everything went much more smoothly than i had > hoped. the one glaring problem is that i am unable to re-add access to > my gmail account and google ca

Re: A regression bug comparing Stretch to Jessie -was [Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints]

2017-05-13 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > Not quite in the manner I suspect you assume . > We come from different point-of-views. > You evidently lean towards "power user". > I have some characteristics of "mass market consumer". > > The points you listed appear likely to lead to alleviation of my > observed _s

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-13 Thread songbird
RavenLX wrote: > On 05/10/2017 07:57 AM, songbird wrote: >>you can set up several partitions with different >> levels of fun if you want. > > My spare laptop has a 250 GB HD and the laptop I use all the time has a > 600 GB HD. I already have both partitioned for *one* OS - Debian 8. I > reall

Re: A regression bug comparing Stretch to Jessie -was [Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints]

2017-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2017 07:46 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 13 May 2017 at 07:32:52 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/12/2017 04:09 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 02:46:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/12/2017 12:40 PM, deloptes wrot

Re: A regression bug comparing Stretch to Jessie -was [Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints]

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 May 2017 at 07:32:52 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/12/2017 04:09 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 02:46:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 05/12/2017 12:40 PM, deloptes wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >>

Re: A regression bug comparing Stretch to Jessie -was [Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints]

2017-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/12/2017 04:09 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 02:46:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/12/2017 12:40 PM, deloptes wrote: [...] It took me a while to realize there is difference from MySQL perspective if you use loc

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 May 2017 at 05:36:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2017 04:59 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Fri 12 May 2017 at 09:08:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>In your case "Why install part of the OS to the SD card if you have to have > >>the flash drive at all times to launch the OS?"

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 May 2017 at 14:09:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > it will work for Debian. The answer is "probably" but it is questionable > > whether the advice to alter the initrd on the SD card need be followed. > > Perhaps it was necessary for the Ubuntu kernel at the time the articl

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-13 Thread RavenLX
On 05/10/2017 09:19 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/10/2017 06:57 AM, songbird wrote: [...] if you wanted to you could have one partition for booting the stable distribution and only update that when you have a good time for that. the thing with these setups is that in Debian you don't

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 May 2017 at 12:33:38 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 13/05/2017 à 11:56, Brian a écrit : > > > >The OP wonders if > > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromSD > > > >it will work for Debian. The answer is "probably" but it is questionable > >whether the advice to alter the in

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-13 Thread RavenLX
On 05/10/2017 07:57 AM, songbird wrote: you can set up several partitions with different levels of fun if you want. My spare laptop has a 250 GB HD and the laptop I use all the time has a 600 GB HD. I already have both partitioned for *one* OS - Debian 8. I really don't want to go through

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > it will work for Debian. The answer is "probably" but it is questionable > whether the advice to alter the initrd on the SD card need be followed. > Perhaps it was necessary for the Ubuntu kernel at the time the article > was written. The hardware involved would have to be known to

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/05/2017 à 13:07, Błażej Popławski a écrit : I don't have to do this for purpose. I was just wondering if it can be done without much work spent on it. This laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite A300. Main OS is Win7. I have plenty of space on my hard drive. As I wrote, I'm just curious about

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Błażej Popławski
I don't have to do this for purpose. I was just wondering if it can be done without much work spent on it. This laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite A300. Main OS is Win7. I have plenty of space on my hard drive. As I wrote, I'm just curious about the answer. 2017-05-12 16:08 GMT+02:00 Richard Owle

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2017 04:59 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 12 May 2017 at 09:08:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: In your case "Why install part of the OS to the SD card if you have to have the flash drive at all times to launch the OS?" In your case "Why install part of the OS to the SD card if you have to h

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/05/2017 à 11:56, Brian a écrit : The OP wonders if https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromSD it will work for Debian. The answer is "probably" but it is questionable whether the advice to alter the initrd on the SD card need be followed. Perhaps it was necessary for the Ubuntu kerne

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 May 2017 at 09:08:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > In your case "Why install part of the OS to the SD card if you have to have > the flash drive at all times to launch the OS?" In your case "Why install part of the OS to the SD card if you have to have the hard disk drive at all times

Re: How to run Debian from SD card but booting from USB stick?

2017-05-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 May 2017 at 23:34:05 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > So, the question remains. Is creating an initrd on Debian really > > necessary? > > I am not at 100% sure, but AFAIK when you install the kernel mkinitramfs or > update-initramfs would add the modules already used by the

extracted-rpm bin files and gcc executables on GNUroot debian on Android phone/device

2017-05-13 Thread Rupinder Singh
Hi, I'm using GNUroot Debian bash on my Anroid phone. While I have been to install many packages like java, python, ruby, node.js, scala, groovy via apt-get install and use them to write and run programs, I'm finding difficulty with extracted rpm files and gcc executables. That is, they come with