Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

Start here perhaps? https://wiki.debian.org/nftables It should be relatively straightforward to move backward and forwards. Working as a systemd service means that it will start automatically if you're using systemd. [When in doubt, check the Debian wiki for a topic - if that's no good, have a qu

Re: Migrating to a new disk.

The easiest method might be to boot from installation media, run the "rescue" install, chroot to the disk you want to use, then run update-grub from there All the very best, as ever, Andy C. On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:44 PM David wrote: > On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 20:03, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >

Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470

Also - check carefully what firmware it might require. You have, for example, installed firmware-linux-nonfree, firmware-misc-nonfree to enable non-free firmware possibly? On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:12 PM riveravaldez wrote: > On 9/5/20, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, September 05, 2

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

Hi Richard, Potentially zero difference - until the 32 bit browser just isn't there any more / isn't patched. This is the sort of question that the debian-cd team are also pondering: as the years go on, it is harder and harder to justify 32 bit software at least for the x86 architecture. There are

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

It's equivalent can probaby be picked up off the back shelf in any computer recycling shop. On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:50 PM deloptes wrote: > Andrew Cater wrote: > > > Potentially zero difference - until the 32 bit browser just isn't there > > any more / isn't patche

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

32 bit Intel/AMD will likely disappear from the kernel if it becomes too hard to support. I've just had a quick look at the Fit-PC site - all of them look to be 64 bit capable. You want something low power - 64 bit ARM? There does come a point when 32 bit x86 really isn't viable - that's round abou

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

Standard advice from me: use the expert install (available under "Advanced options", I think, from the standard netinst / DVD .iso image. Uncheck all except standard install (and perhaps SSH server) - no X, no desktop environment. That gives you a bare, text mode install with < 400 packages in tota

Re: Can one install packages from Parrot or Kali on Debian testing? (Was: Re: Hi :))

Parrot and Kali both have their own support lists. Kali, in particular, use a modified Debian testing as the basis of their rolling release but modify kernels and other packages. In general, people would suggest not mixing Debian stable and Debian testing. Using packages from another Debian-derived

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Devuan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan - it appears that the folks over there have had to modify precisely udisks2 and policykit. This is not a Devuan support list - but it looks as if stock Debian may not allow the switch once a full system is installed. I

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

Richard (et. al.) If you want an install without any Internet connectivity - you have one really good choice - but you may need someone to provide you with media made on another Debian machine. The jigdo file which produces a 16GB file for writing to a USB stick is, essentially, the first three

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

oad can be restarted if interrupted.) Hope this helps, as ever, Andy C. On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/18/2020 07:29 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: > > Richard (et. al.) > > > > If you want an install without any Internet connectivity - you have one >

Re: Offline systems

Myself - I might use the 16G stick as install medium - see conversations elsewhere in this list on how to use jigod. That gives you the contents of more than DVD 1 to DVD 3 in one small format. These are up to 70 real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated ways to deploy

Fwd: Confusion on how to do it.

This went only to John whereas I meant to send it to both John and the list. -- Forwarded message - From: Andrew Cater Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Confusion on how to do it. To: John Brumby Hi John, Everything in one would be 40 odd DVDs worth but you can

Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

As folk will be aware: we're building and releasing the final release of Stretch before transition to LTS support. Testing is going well - there are a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the testers have no hardware. One set is an old Mac on Intel media, the other is boo

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

8, 2020 at 5:55 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew Cater wrote: > > [...] here are > > a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the > testers > > have no hardware. > > One set is an old Mac on Intel media, > > Do you mean t

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

Streaming production of .iso files _is_ technically possible. Jigdo effectively builds the iso file from chunks of ten or so files until the disk is complete and checksummed. As mentioned, this query was about stopping production of the .iso files specifically meant for the oldestMac mini. That cer

Re: Problem with mirrors in a 10.4.0 install

Try using deb.debian.org - the CDN (content delivery network) suggestion that will try and geolocate you. Depends which coast you're nearest - I'd try either MIT / California [Universities with high bandwidth] :) The default mirror for US appears to be run by Wikimedia - they've also got bandwidth

Re: Debian and Raspberry Pi4 (was: Slic3r --gui won't run).

https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/ - there's at least one image there for the 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 from Gunnar Wolf - but note that this is still a work in progress. It's certainly possible: other folk have got this to boot using experimental UEFI - it's there such that you don't _have_ to use R

Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster

It should "just work" - if you can "ssh localhost" - the server is running. Hope this helps Andy C On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:06 AM rhkramer wrote: > I get this error when trying to apt-get install openssh-server on my (up > to > date) Buster system: > > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.syste

Re: Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs

I've just written up longer instructions on my own web page at FLOSSlinux which should explain the steps I've just followed for myself. Check those and see what you think. I'll have a go at importing from /etc/apt/trusted.gpg and see what that looks like. That

Re: Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs

24, 2020 at 4:29 PM Andrew Cater wrote: > I've just written up longer instructions on my own web page at FLOSSlinux > <https://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/> which should explain the steps > I've just followed for myself. Check those and see what you think. I'll >

Re: issues with storage media

Parted / gparted are useful tools. The live .iso is very useful if you have an unknown disk - you can boot into linux to examine disk formats. The crucial thing to know is that most partitions can be recovered with enough care. USB keys - try and buy a known brand. Stick small labels on them. Know

Re: question concerning wifi and connection

Wifi is generally going to be slower than a wired connection. Wifi is subject to device contention as various devices sharing the channel each struggle for bandwidth. There's also, sometimes, the issue of shared channel interference if there are a lot of wireless access points around which will cau

Re: documentation for sddm-greeter

Hi Tom, Ah, if you'd said some or all of that previously, you might have had a slightly politer response - sorry if I was grumpy. Please _DON'T_ drop back to Stretch: with the final release, it's just transitioned to LTS. That transition means that it will still be well supported for security issu

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

>From a minimal Debian install with no desktop environment, use the tasksel command to select the desktop for installation and work from there. How did you install your minimal desktop environment? - if you did it just from a netinst iso with no network, you might need to start by plugging in your

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

Alan, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here". If you have no network connection, you might find it easier to begin with a DVD image as this provides more software to begin with. If you can plug in the USB-Ethernet adapter and a cable, even better. You will almost certainly need some element o

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

To be honest, on 256G - when you don't know what you want - I'd be inclined to take the guided partitioning all in one partition layout as a good start. Logs rotate these days, downloads can be deleted. If you know you're going to be running lots of things in one particular partition, that's slight

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

. I gave the Windows partition 30G and thought that would be fine. Not so: I had to resize the partition after the fact and 40G has proved fine. Fortunately, I had no data to save but it's worth thinking about. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:22 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrew Cater wrote: > >

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

You _can_ use guided partitioning as a guide. Use Windows to reduce the amount of space it takes on the disk. Use Windows tools to format the second half of the disk, or whatever to vfat. Boot Debian: use Debian to delete the vfat partition and create blank space: then use "use largest blank space"

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

hwclock --hctosys will do it - run a batch file? Or have ntpdate run automatically as the system boots? If you mean that Debian shows a different time to Windows consistently - check that one OS isn't resetting the other's clock. You can persuade Windows _not_ to reset the clock on daylight savin

Re: grub update and reinstallation

In addition - this is booting in legacy/BIOS mode not in UEFI - otherwise it would have mentioned grub-efi On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:38 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:21:06 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > The recent security updates to grub inspire two questions: > > 1) Do the change

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

That's the problem: An internal SSD is connected relatively directly to the CPU. Almost all USB keys aren't optimised for fast data transfer other than, perhaps, reading/buffering large single files. Running a VM means constant read/write, constant update - it would be all the same as pushing a CP

Re: grub update and reinstallation

Folk are onto this: the Buster point release is happening right now. People are aware: the issue is also being raised in debian-cd. There are workarounds - it will be sorted. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:20 PM Graham Seaman wrote: > > > On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2020-08-01 12:2

Re: Enlarging /boot

If you have room for two kernels and you are booting from the newest one: potentially, you can remove the older one to gain some space. If apt update installs another kernel of the same version so you have two 4.19 - reboot when the apt run finishes, make sure that the new kernel boots and runs fin

Re: grub update and reinstallation

h...@debian.org - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh posted this on LWN.net earlier. It's about as clear as it gets so I'm cheating and copying this direct into debian-cd so that others see it: thanks for the clarity, Henrique >> For Debian, most of the issues reported with the security update were link

Re: how to quickly recover buster boot loader

Boot from Debian install media. Use rescue mode. Mount Debian partition when prompted. Run os-prober and update-grub then exit. Machine should reboot into Debian. On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:28 PM Long Wind wrote: > Thank Greg! > but chroot dance is new to me, it doesn't seem easy > it involves ma

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

Hi Albretch, If I'm reading your question correctly: Why can't you set the locale for one country, the timezone for a second, the keyboard for a third? You can. As root or equivalent, you can reset timezone with dpkg-reconfigure -plow tzdata [That's the dpkg-reconfigure command, -plow to force

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

Aha - it might be one of the strange generation of machines (way back) that had 32 bit UEFI/BIOS and a 64 bit capable Atom processor - maybe back as far as the Sandy Bridge series ... a long time ago anyway. Use, specifically, the Debian i386/amd64 multiarch netboot to install this and it works and

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

I've got a similar vintage Thinkpad x130 next to me: firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-misc-nonfree and it all works well. UEFI should then more or less just work. On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:23 AM Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrot

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

Hi David, OK. If this is one of the laptops with dual graphics cards where it will often use an Intel graphics chip for simple tasks and switch to Nvidia embedded card for more complex graphics/gaming?. Stop. Get prepared for a more complicated process. Boot using media. Do a text mode expert inst

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

st me after building the modules. Thank you for the > help! > On 8/16/20 4:06 PM, Andrew Cater wrote: > > Hi David, > > OK. If this is one of the laptops with dual graphics cards where it will > often use an Intel graphics chip for simple tasks and switch to Nvidia > embedde

Fwd: Core Q9650 in a case with 5 hard drives

This also to the mailing list - someone else may find it useful as a starting point. -- Forwarded message - From: Andrew Cater Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 8:37 PM Subject: Re: Core Q9650 in a case with 5 hard drives To: James Allsopp Put some cheap slow running quiet fans in

Re: question on different hardware

Probably - I can't find that as an obvious Atom model: do you have any more specifics - how much memory on board? Is this on a mini-ITX or fanless system as an embedded processor? Debian will run on pretty much any 32 bit / 64 bit processor from the last 25 years to some degree. Please be a little

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

PM Bob McGowan wrote: > On 8/18/20 1:27 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: > > To the point where you got to the end of the text mode only install - > > was it working in text mode when you rebooted? > Reboot was fine. > > When you went to add the non-free firmware - was it wor