Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 05 iun 21, 12:46:13, Martin McCormick wrote: > > One should be able to write a program to get the > appropriate UUID's out of fstab on the working system > and translate them in to corresponding UUID's for the system on > the operating table. Alternatively you might want to consider

Re: pppoe performance on debian and debian as router / firewall

2021-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 05 iun 21, 20:07:56, Antonio wrote: > > The problem is my ISP uses pppoe for my symmetric 1 gbps connection and I > know this type of connection requires a quite performant cpu, as it is > single-threaded and uses only one cpu core. I'm currently using a supermicro > motherboard with a (fou

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/5/21, Martin McCormick wrote: > > First I greatly appreciate all this information as the idea is to > > fix a problem I probably created long ago though I am not sure > > how but the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran up

Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-06 Thread peter
Hi, The .bashrc here defines this function. met () { case $# in 0) mousepad --display=:0 /home/me/a & ;; 1) mousepad --display=:0 $1 & ;; *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac } mousepad works as expected but messages such as this are spewed to the terminal. (mousepad:8747): dconf-WA

thunderbird vs clawsmail

2021-06-06 Thread fxkl47BF
i've gone back and forth between thunderbird and clawsmail clawsmail is lightweight and clean, i like that debian stable only has an old version, i don't like that to get an up to date version i have to continuously compile from source, i don't like that thunderbird is overly heavyweight for my

Re: Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 06:43:31AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > The .bashrc here defines this function. > > met () { case $# in > 0) mousepad --display=:0 /home/me/a & ;; > 1) mousepad --display=:0 $1 & ;; > *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; > esac > } OK, this shows the fu

Re: thunderbird vs clawsmail

2021-06-06 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 6/6/21 5:43 PM, fxkl47BF wrote: > i've gone back and forth between thunderbird and clawsmail > > clawsmail is lightweight and clean, i like that > debian stable only has an old version, i don't like that > to get an up to date version i have to continuously compile from source, i > don't like

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to all for the advice and knowledge you shared about how grub works. I am writing this on June 6 and early this morning, I edited the boot command in the grub shell after verifying that my stubborn no-boot drive truly was sitting at hd0,1msdos and grub-install had picked out hd2,1msdos for

Re: Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-06 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 10:56:59 -0400 > Yu should quote "$1" but otherwise it seems OK. Fixed. Thanks. > How and when do you actually *run* this function? Invoked from a telnet console running in LinuxAos on the same machine. Similar to invoking from a plain text co

Re: Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 11:22:52AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > How and when do you actually *run* this function? > > Invoked from a telnet console running in LinuxAos on the same machine. > Similar to invoking from a plain text console on another machine on > the LAN. > > (I'm aware tha

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-06 13:30 (UTC-0500): > The sample that Greg Wooledge showed looked very close to > how my grub.cfg looked after doctoring the drive references to > point to hd0,1msdos. and I tried booting that way and set the > root parameter to /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 and

Re: thunderbird vs clawsmail

2021-06-06 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-06 11:23 a.m., Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 6/6/21 5:43 PM, fxkl47BF wrote: >> i've gone back and forth between thunderbird and clawsmail >> >> clawsmail is lightweight and clean, i like that >> debian stable only has an old version, i don't like that >> to get an up to date versio

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l > or fdisk > -l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first > partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 > would > have been/be correct. Sorry

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
I admit I made several big mistakes, here. The first was not having a backup of /boot as I thought I did. The next is thinking I could just copy the whole boot directory from a known working system and be able to get it to work by using sed to replace the UUID's of the system it was on with those

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-06 16:59 (UTC-0500): ... > Swap is the last partition. > Disk /dev/sde: This is a big lurking booby trap that could have been the problem both last time and this time. It's one of

Re: Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-06 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 15:06:03 -0400 > I'm struggling to understand what you've got here. You're running *two* > operating systems on the same machine... at the same time? In a sense, yes. See following. > Does this mean the "LinuxAos" thing is in a virtual machine

Re: thunderbird vs clawsmail

2021-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 iun 21, 14:43:49, fxkl47BF wrote: > i've gone back and forth between thunderbird and clawsmail > > clawsmail is lightweight and clean, i like that > debian stable only has an old version, i don't like that > to get an up to date version i have to continuously compile from source, i > do