Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/11/2018 à 21:24, Daniel Fishman a écrit : I'd expect that Grub won't be able to reliably work with that setup - partition 3 goes past the 2TB mark, so the BIOS won't be able to map it properly. Don't forget, when grub is reading the disk all it can rely on are BIOS calls. Add yourself a sm

Re: systemd-networkd and bonding

2018-11-22 Thread john doe
On 11/23/2018 5:23 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2018-11-22 11:02 a.m., john doe wrote: >> On 11/22/2018 4:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >>> I'm running Debian/Stretch (AMD64). >>> >>> I'm trying to create a bond between two network devices (currently >>> testing on my laptop but also have a couple of server

Re: systemd-networkd and bonding

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-22 11:02 a.m., john doe wrote: On 11/22/2018 4:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Stretch (AMD64). I'm trying to create a bond between two network devices (currently testing on my laptop but also have a couple of servers I'd like to use it on) following the Debian Wiki at htt

grub tries to read outside of a disk.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
Hello, I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD, and want to be able to boot it both on UEFI and BIOS systems. Using a simple BIOS/GPT configuration (GPT partitioning with BIOS boot) didn't work out - after receiving some important tips from this mailing list about problems that I had

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/11/2018 à 20:19, Steve McIntyre a écrit : quant...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT partition table and BIOS boot

Re: VLC doesn't shutdown when closed

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-22 10:26 a.m., Curt wrote: On 2018-11-22, Gary Dale wrote: I looked for a keep running option (and VLC does have a lot of options) but couldn't find one. If in 'Simple Preferences' under 'Playlists and instances' 'use only one instance when started from file manager' isn't checked

Re: VLC doesn't shutdown when closed

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-22 10:26 a.m., Curt wrote: On 2018-11-22, Gary Dale wrote: I looked for a keep running option (and VLC does have a lot of options) but couldn't find one. If in 'Simple Preferences' under 'Playlists and instances' 'use only one instance when started from file manager' isn't checked

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
Can you try to create all the partitions through Debian's installer. I have a suspicion that partition type may be wrong for BIOS partition. You have specified ext2 as file system for BIOS grub which may mean Linux partition instead of BIOS grub partition (ef02 BIOS boot). In the end, it wa

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
I'd expect that Grub won't be able to reliably work with that setup - partition 3 goes past the 2TB mark, so the BIOS won't be able to map it properly. Don't forget, when grub is reading the disk all it can rely on are BIOS calls. Add yourself a small-ish /boot partition first and you may be OK.

Re: Install openssh-server jessie version deb package on stretch

2018-11-22 Thread owl...@gmail.com
Il giorno gio 22 nov 2018 alle ore 20:48 Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 08:40:52PM +0100, owl...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thanks Roberto, > > > > I have tried also the latest dropbear server but this is incompatible too > > > > Do you have idea how can I find appropriate ke

Re: Install openssh-server jessie version deb package on stretch

2018-11-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 08:40:52PM +0100, owl...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks Roberto, > > I have tried also the latest dropbear server but this is incompatible too > > Do you have idea how can I find appropriate key exchange and cipher > algorithms? > Please don't top post. It is considered impo

compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-11-22 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, On 22/11/2018 19:08, Samuel Thibault wrote: > For debian-accessibility: a very interesting feature of 0.8.16 is the > ability of ezoom to track focus events, which makes it a very effective > screen magnifier. I did set that in Slint with Mate 1.18, now the window moves when I type or use

Re: Install openssh-server jessie version deb package on stretch

2018-11-22 Thread owl...@gmail.com
Thanks Roberto, I have tried also the latest dropbear server but this is incompatible too Do you have idea how can I find appropriate key exchange and cipher algorithms? Il giorno gio 22 nov 2018 alle ore 19:42 Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 07:32:07PM +0100, owl...@

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/22/18 9:08 PM, Daniel Fishman wrote: > >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> in case of BIOS and GPT you have to create a partition for second stage >> of GRUB. If I can remember correctly its size should be less than 50MB. >> >> HTH >> >> Kind regards >> Georgi > > I created it - this is the first partit

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
quant...@gmail.com wrote: > >I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want >to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, >and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT >partition table and BIOS boot (or, in other words: BIOS/GTP). >I partitione

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
Hi Daniel, in case of BIOS and GPT you have to create a partition for second stage of GRUB. If I can remember correctly its size should be less than 50MB. HTH Kind regards Georgi I created it - this is the first partition (the one with bios_grub flag). I did things similarly to the descri

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/22/18 8:24 PM, Daniel Fishman wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want > to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, > and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT > partition table and BIOS boot (or, in other

Re: Install openssh-server jessie version deb package on stretch

2018-11-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 07:32:07PM +0100, owl...@gmail.com wrote: >Hi, I have compatibility issues with the latest version of openssh-server >and an old dropbear client, the dopbear client stops at preauth >ov 22 14:34:03  myhostname sshd[3905]: debug1: Client protocol version >2.0;

Install openssh-server jessie version deb package on stretch

2018-11-22 Thread owl...@gmail.com
Hi, I have compatibility issues with the latest version of openssh-server and an old dropbear client, the dopbear client stops at preauth *ov 22 14:34:03 * *myhostname **sshd[3905]: debug1: Client protocol version 2.0; client software version dropbear_0.46* *Nov 22 14:34:03 **myhostname** sshd[390

Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
Hello, I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT partition table and BIOS boot (or, in other words: BIOS/GTP). I partitioned the HDD accordingly (s

Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 30 août 2018 17:26:27 +0200, a ecrit: > The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode > and will not make further development since Ubuntu has stopped using it. > > How do people feel about switching to compiz-reloaded? > > https://gitla

Re: systemd-networkd and bonding

2018-11-22 Thread john doe
On 11/22/2018 4:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Stretch (AMD64). > > I'm trying to create a bond between two network devices (currently > testing on my laptop but also have a couple of servers I'd like to use > it on) following the Debian Wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/Bonding. > >

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Nov 2018 at 11:44:02 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > > > Apt-get won't install local

Re: VLC doesn't shutdown when closed

2018-11-22 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-22, Gary Dale wrote: >> > I looked for a keep running option (and VLC does have a lot of options) > but couldn't find one. > If in 'Simple Preferences' under 'Playlists and instances' 'use only one instance when started from file manager' isn't checked the phenomenon has been known to

systemd-networkd and bonding

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Stretch (AMD64). I'm trying to create a bond between two network devices (currently testing on my laptop but also have a couple of servers I'd like to use it on) following the Debian Wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/Bonding. I got the ifenslave method working as per the firs

Re: VLC doesn't shutdown when closed

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-21 8:54 p.m., Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/21/18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-11-21 2:55 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:29:18PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster with a Plasma 5 desktop. After I close a VLC session [...] Note that just ending

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/21/18, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. >> > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a r