Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > But, as said previously, old PC-BIOS does not care for partitions. > GRUB does. Normally it can handle partition tables if the necessary GRUB > modules are loaded. For GPT: insmod part_gpt Thank you Thomas, I now understand this use case.

Re: Computer Museum (was Re: Very old hardware...)

On 07/03/2020 06:40 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: This is, actually something I would like to do. Anyone know of good Computer Museums in areas they've been in? (I remember a good one, South of San Francisco, but that's on the other side of the Country from North Carolina). I don't know of a com

Re: Very old hardware...

David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-07-03 11:08, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 03 July 2020 13:17:33 Davide Lombardo wrote: >> >>> Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > >> Donate it to the curbside pickup. > > +1 > > > On 2020-07-03 11:58, Michael Stone wrote: > >

Remove undesired entries in MATE "Applications" sub-menus

I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I rarely want. They end up with entries on MATE's Applications sub-menus. Without deleting the offending applications from the system, how can I delete those menu entries and replace th

Re: Remove undesired entries in MATE "Applications" sub-menus

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 06:53:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. > The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I rarely > want. They end up with entries on MATE's Applications sub-menus. > > Without deleting the offending applications

potential iptables problem

Greetimgs all; Does anyone know how to relate a noaa call sign into an ip address? I use the gkrellm weather pluggin to get me an uptodate weather report from the nearby airports call sign, but this has to be translated to an ipv4 address somehow, and I may have inadvertently blocked it with an

Re: Remove undesired entries in MATE "Applications" sub-menus

On 7/4/20 4:53 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I rarely want. They end up with entries on MATE's Applications sub-menus. Without deleting the offending applications from the system, how can

Re: potential iptables problem

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:20:11AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetimgs all; > > Does anyone know how to relate a noaa call sign into an ip address? > > I use the gkrellm weather pluggin to get me an uptodate weather report > from the nearby airports call sign, but this has to be translated to

Re: potential iptables problem

Hello, On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:20:11AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Does anyone know how to relate a noaa call sign into an ip address? There is no relationship between a NOAA callsign and IP address and I don't know why you would assume there would be. It is vanishingly unlikely that it is ev

Re: potential iptables problem

On Saturday 04 July 2020 09:20:11 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetimgs all; > > Does anyone know how to relate a noaa call sign into an ip address? > > I use the gkrellm weather pluggin to get me an uptodate weather report > from the nearby airports call sign, but this has to be translated to > an ipv4

Re: Very old hardware...

Michael Stone wrote: > If the goal is just to experiment then you could run an older version of > debian. (I think there's not enough memory for the current install > routine.) OpenBSD or NetBSD or a linux distribution oriented toward > small systems would run. Nothing will give you a good experie

usb device constantly resets

Greetings, I'm running server with Debian 10 installed on it. the os is installed on a usb. the board is an asus H110M-A/M.2. the server runs a vm 24/7 on kvm (qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u5, libvirt-daemon 5.0.0-4+deb10u1), the server has a pass-trough usb wifi device (Ralink RT5572 Wireless Adapter

Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

Bonjour, Je dispose du pc récemment sortie HP Spectre x360 15 (15-eb0013nf) et je rencontre divers problème qui serait souhaitable que ça soit remonté afin que les developpeurs puissent se pencher dessus. Voici les problèmes que je n'arrive pas à régler: \- Le son: J'ai install

Re: Very old hardware...

On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote: > >Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > >CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > >DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > >GPU: RIVA TNT-2 > >HARDISK: 10 GB > >FLOPPY DISK DRI

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

* Je rectifie: Aucune possibilité de faire un clique DROIT. On Saturday, July 4, 2020 5:54 PM, 4q9fusc...@use.startmail.com wrote: > Bonjour, > > > > Je dispose du pc récemment sortie HP Spectre x360 15 (15-eb0013nf) et je rencontre divers problème qui serait souhaitable que ça so

Re: usb device constantly resets

On Sb, 04 iul 20, 18:16:20, daggs wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm running server with Debian 10 installed on it. > the os is installed on a usb. the board is an asus H110M-A/M.2. > the server runs a vm 24/7 on kvm (qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u5, libvirt-daemon > 5.0.0-4+deb10u1), the server has a pass-tr

Re: Very old hardware...

Davide Lombardo wrote: > Maybe I can just setup this PC as a Tor's Relay Perhaps you did not understand correctly. The old 386 architecture is not likely to be supported by recent kernels. The power consumptioned to processing power ratio is below reasonable value. It is not likely it makes sense

Re: Very old hardware...

On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200 Davide Lombardo wrote: > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > GPU: RIVA TNT-2 > HARDISK: 10 GB > FLOPPY DISK DRIVE > MODEM 56K > In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of

Re: usb device constantly resets

Greetings Andrei, > Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2020 at 8:10 PM > From: "Andrei POPESCU" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: usb device constantly resets > > On Sb, 04 iul 20, 18:16:20, daggs wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm running server with Debian 10 installed on it. > > the os is

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

Bonjour, d'abord quelques observations: - tu as posté le même message en français sur les lites debian.user et debian.user.french: tu dois poster sur debian.user.french en français mais si tu postes sur debian.user tu dois le faire en anglais - ces listes ne sont pas des supports techniques d'un

Re: my Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!!

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:16:47 CEST Marco Möller wrote: > !THANK YOU! Thank You Debian Developers! > > My Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!! > > My old laptop running on Debian/testing since the update from today > flies like a rocket!! It before was fine, I di

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

Sorry for being so absent-minded: I answered here thinking I was answering on the same message on the french list. Apologies :-)

Re: How do I troubleshoot wireless network dropping?

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:26:18 CEST Borden Rhodes wrote: > I'm looking for help on how to interpret journalctl to understand why > my wireless keeps disconnecting. I have two wireless adapters on my > laptop: an internal Intel card and a USB dongle. The former has driver > issues, so I generall

Re: Very old hardware...

On Friday, 3 July 2020 22:57:06 CEST Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200 > > Davide Lombardo wrote: > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > It might be useful to identify the manufacturer of the computer or >

Re: Computer Museum (was Re: Very old hardware...)

On 7/3/20 5:40 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > This is, actually something I would like to do.  Anyone know of good > Computer Museums in areas they've been in?  (I remember a good one, > South of San Francisco, but that's on the other side of the Country from > North Carolina). > > I have a couple th

Re: Very old hardware...

On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:01:50 CEST Christian Groessler wrote: > 3000 Lire? > > Did you mean 3.000,000 Lire? > > regards, > chris > > On 2020-07-03 19:17, Davide Lombardo wrote: > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > DRAM: 64 MB

Re: Very old hardware...

On Saturday, 4 July 2020 04:08:25 CEST Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:49 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Debian with xfce or mate or cinnamon may install and run well. I don't > > recommend gnome. > > +1 > > Funny story: A few years ago, I installed a Text-only Minimal Ubuntu > s

Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

Greetings. While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not support Enigmail. The new version also appears to have no obvious way to import openpg

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

On 05-07-2020 07:38, Tom Dial wrote: > Greetings. > > While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my > wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in > Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not > support Enigmail. The new version als

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, July 4, 2020 3:38 PM, Tom Dial wrote: > I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature, > if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from Thunderbird. Are you loo

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

On 05-07-2020 07:38, Tom Dial wrote: > Greetings. > > While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my > wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in > Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not > support Enigmail. The new version als

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

Tom Dial wrote: > I elected to use Thunderbird a number of years ago because it has a > relatively decent UI, downloads and removes the messages from my ISP's > servers, and with Enigmail had reasonably good PGP integration. I'm sure > there are others, but it's 10 - 20 years since I used them (fe

Re: Very old hardware...

Davide Lombardo wrote: > On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote: >> >Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: >> >CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; >> >DRAM: 64 MB SDDR >> >GPU: RIVA TNT-2 >> >H

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:38:38 -0600 Tom Dial wrote: > While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my > wife's Windows laptop,... Are you asking for advice for Windows or for Debian? > I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature, > if known, would be

Re: Remove undesired entries in MATE "Applications" sub-menus

On 07/04/2020 07:38 AM, n...@dismail.de wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 06:53:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I rarely want. They end up with entries on MATE's Applications sub-menus. Wit

Re: Very old hardware...

On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 04:35:49 (+0200), deloptes wrote: > Davide Lombardo wrote: > > On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote: > >> >Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > >> >CPU: Pe

sources.list for security

hi, I found several proposals for thre security entry deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main which one must be chose

Re: Very old hardware...

On 4/7/20 12:08 pm, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:49 PM Jude DaShiell > wrote: Debian with xfce or mate or cinnamon may install and run well.  I don't recommend gnome. +1 +1 more I'm just note sure that 64M ram is going to cut it. I

Re: Remove undesired entries in MATE "Applications" sub-menus

On Sb, 04 iul 20, 22:42:59, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/04/2020 07:38 AM, n...@dismail.de wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 06:53:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. > > > The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I > > > rare

Re: sources.list for security

On 7/5/2020 8:14 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I found several proposals for thre security entry deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ b

Re: Very old hardware...

On 4/7/20 12:10 pm, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-07-03 11:58, Michael Stone wrote: > For practical purposes, you'd be better off with a $35 raspberry PI. +1 +1 more iI have a Pi 3b with 1G ram and it does pretty well - even thought I'm used to an i7 with 8G ram and SSD On 2020-07

Re: Very old hardware...

On 5/7/20 1:50 am, Davide Lombardo wrote: Maybe I can just setup this PC as a Tor's Relay Again, the Pi would likely be better -- Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com 0447 667468

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

On Sb, 04 iul 20, 21:24:27, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:38:38 -0600 > Tom Dial wrote: > > > While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my > > wife's Windows laptop,... > > Are you asking for advice for Windows or for Debian? > > > I would welcome suggest

Re: sources.list for security

Am 05. Jul, 2020 schwätzte Pierre Frenkiel so: moin moin Pierre, I found several proposals for thre security entry deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.or