Re: help with IP Masquerading, 2.4 kernel

2001-04-30 Thread Dan Christensen
"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Turn on forwarding: > > echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward That's already done. As I said, I can connect to remote systems through the firewall machine, and data flows back and forth. It's just that it freezes up within a couple of mi

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread Dan Christensen
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: >> I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home >> computer (H). [web traffice] > Another way of doing it, a bit more unsecure maybe, would be to > install a proxyserv

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: >>> I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home >>> computer (H). > >

mounting CDs? and emacs under SU?

2001-09-02 Thread Peter Christensen
nd, or is there a shortcut for this? And how can I get emacs to work under Superuser? Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-05 Thread Dan Christensen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed a machine from debian unstable a few weeks ago, and I've been > utterly unable to get X forwarding to work when logging into the machine > remotely. I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug

cdrom not valid block device?

2001-09-05 Thread Peter Christensen
onder if my cdrom drive is not compatible? I think what I have is just a standard drive, IDE. Peter Christensen

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-06 Thread Dan Christensen
"C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dan Christensen wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug #96709 >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: cdrom not valid block device?

2001-09-08 Thread Peter Christensen
e. Now I can get to the CD, install Netscape, and get on-line without having to bring up Windows. Thanks again! Peter Christensen

Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread Peter Christensen
What is the correct way to start it? Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread Peter Christensen
option because I never got my internet access working properly with the packages that came on the 2.1 release from Cheapbytes. This has been a frustrating experience, but I do want to get away from Windows if I possible can! Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-14 Thread Peter Christensen
buy a new set of Debian CDs (from Cheapbytes, where I bought the last set), would it come with a working browser? I do appreciate all the help that this mailing list provides! Peter Christensen

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-16 Thread Peter Christensen
upported by device I use a dial-up connection with an external US Robotics 56K v.90 modem. Peter Christensen P.S. Karsten and Dman, thanks for the info on apt. Once I get past this internet problem I realize that updates off the internet are the best way to go.

Re: Problems with communicator v4.77

2001-09-18 Thread Peter Christensen
Eric, I was interested to see your email about Netscape. I'm using Debian 2.1, had the same problem, posted a question here very similar to yours, and got many responses. Here's one from Dman: | (my query, when I tried to start Netscape) | I got the following: | | error in loading shared lib

apt-get interrupted, file locked

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Christensen
d not open lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, open (13 permission denied) Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt, another process is using it Is this fixable? What should I do if I lose the connection next time? Thanks, Peter Christensen (note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Christensen
I'm still learning Debian-Linux, was so pleased that apt-get worked. It took 12 hours (!), but afterward Mozilla was finally working, so now I have internet access. After the apt-get dist-upgrade I got a message saying that I must upgrade the kernel. Current is 2.0.36, need at least 2.2.12. Com

Re: Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Christensen
Thanks, everyone. I've printed out all the replies and will try compiling the kernel. Peter

Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Christensen
ious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a new set of disks. By the way, my computer is a Pentium 200 MHz, with 32 MB of RAM. Is this too antiquated to run Mozilla, or perhaps Gnome or Galeon eventually??? Thanks, Peter Christensen

new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

2001-05-09 Thread Peter Christensen
as it a mistake to buy Debian from Cheap*Bytes? Do I just need a newer release? Is Netscape normally included with the Debian release? Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread Dan Christensen
trouble with unpacking hardlinks with Gnu tar. They seem to be stored in the tar file including the leading /, so they can't be unpacked with /usr mounted as /mnt/usr, say. Dan -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-14 Thread Dan Christensen
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i think the problem you have w/ hardlinks is more basic, > how to create hard links or soft links... not a tar problem ... > relative links is the preferred methodology ( hard or soft ) > and avoids the leading / and allows the portability of > the files t

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-15 Thread Dan Christensen
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i dont use hardlinks.. ( creates portability problems ) If you have standard Debian software installed, like gzip, then you use hardlinks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ls -l /bin/*zip* -rwxr-xr-x4 root root46160 Dec 2 1999 /bin/gunzip* -rwxr-xr-x

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-15 Thread Dan Christensen
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that > case since its in the same directory/partitions > - hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories > and partitions since it keeps the leading / Hardlinks can't cross partiti

Re: Problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Christensen
"Philip Bubel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE.  I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with > the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is complied > correctly (I think).  I am able to use PPPOE no problem, as the Linux box can > connect to the in

Re: Problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Philip Bubel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE.  I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with > > the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is compli

dif version of debian ??

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Christensen
dif is from version to wersion, so i can finde the version best for me. Sorry if this Q has been up before, but im fearly new to Linux. TIA -- Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Dan Christensen ICQ:2778293 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 Pro

net-pf-10 fork failed, errno 11

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Christensen
I get the following error message once or twice an hour in my syslog: May 31 13:25:55 ren kernel: request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed, errno 11 This happens whether or not I have #alias net-pf-10 off# IPv6 commented out in my /etc/modutils/aliases file (and I did remember to run

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-08 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ssh -C -X ipmasq_box from work_linux_box > ssh -C -X xserver_box from ipmasq_box (same session as above) > > In a new work_linux_box session: export DISPLAY=ipmasq_box:0.0 > xterm & Don't set the DISPLAY variable. ssh does it for you. Dan

Re: Trials w/ Debian install

2001-06-08 Thread Dan Christensen
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a little embarrassed. I've installed debian around 50 times, but > somehow I can't do it on this computer. I've started the installer (off > of floppies), and I've gotten to the point where I should be able to > install the base system over the

kbdrate doesn't work from apmd_proxy

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Christensen
If I run kbdrate as root from the command line: # kbdrate -r 23 Typematic Rate set to 21.8 cps (delay = 250 ms) it works fine. But if I run it from a script in /etc/apmd/event.d #!/bin/sh case "$1" in resume) kbdrate -r 23 2>&1 | logger ;; esac I get ioctl(KDKBDREP):

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/21 4:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte Samsung SSD's. The controller claims to be a 15 port port expander, but only 6 are bonded out, and collectively show up at ata7 in dmesg. They show up as /dev/sde/f/g/h but have not o

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/21 2:54 AM, Pierre Willaime wrote: > Hi, > > I have a nvme SSD (CAZ-82512-Q11 NVMe LITEON 512GB) on debian stable > (bulleye now). > > For a long time, I suffer poor I/O performances which slow down a lot of > tasks (apt upgrade when unpacking for example). > > I am now trying to fix this

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/21 2:54 AM, Pierre Willaime wrote: > I have a nvme SSD (CAZ-82512-Q11 NVMe LITEON 512GB) on debian stable > (bulleye now). > > For a long time, I suffer poor I/O performances which slow down a lot of > tasks (apt upgrade when unpacking for example). On 8/20/21 1:50 AM, Pierre Willaime wr

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/21/21 4:53 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: o/ Is there a way to have "smart fans" that only go as fast as needed? Or, lacking that, is there a way to manually switch them off when one isn't using the computer? I do $ sudo hibernate -v 0 but that seems to kill the Internet connection as well

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 12:56 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: If you throttle your CPU, it will not generate as much heat: https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling You mean permanently or when I'm not using the computer? Install the Debian package 'cpufrequti

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 1:39 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: 4-pin fans wouldn't be possible because of the motherboard sockets, I think, which are also 3-pin. The motherboard user's manual says all of the fan connectors are 4-pin. On 8/22/21 6:03 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Like I already wrote

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 6:41 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 09:03:51AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: [...] Like I already wrote, modifying voltage doesn't change speed of a motor (fan). I disagree. The thing poses [1] as a DC motor (2 pins power, one tacho). [1] I'

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 1:15 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: fanfront low be quiet! Shadow Wings 2 140 mm 3-pin[1] front high be quiet! Shadow Wings 2 140 mm 4-pin CPU cooling tower be quiet! Pure Wings 2120 mm 4-pin (2)[2] rear Corsair

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 2:26 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: didier gaumet wrote: I would think that pwmconfig complains that it finds 3-pins fans set up to PWM mode (4-pins required) Your UEFI propose either to setup your fans globally or individually and I think that by default the setup is global. This would pr

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 2:40 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Some of my other machines offer additional governors -- "powersave" and "userspace". Run "cpufreq-info -g" to see what Debian offers on your motherboard. I did install and did set it to different

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 4:57 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: I would figure out what Setup can do with the fans before messing with the Linux CPU governor. Install software to display temperatures, to display fan speeds, and to put the CPU under load. Temperatures of the CPU and GPU I

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 5:51 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: OK, I did check out the BIOS/UEFI/Setup and all five fans can be configured individually. There are five options. I spoke to soon, there seems to be only one set of options for the CPU fan, so I guess the CPU_OPT and CPU_FAN are the same in terms of optio

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 1:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 02:02:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] What is "BLDC"? Brushless (electric) DC motor [1]. Back Then (TM ;-), to turn an electric motor around you had to switch around the magnetic field in the coils at (

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 11:41 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: - Set the Linux CPU governor to "powersave". Nothing happens when I do that. Try the QFan "Silent" profile Same. What about GPU fan(s)? Power supply fan(s)? What about HDD's? Yeah, I thought

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 12:36 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:20:34PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] Thank you. Do you know where there is information that explains how a BLDC computer fan motor responds to variable supply voltage? Not specifically for computer fans, and

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 1:44 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Emanuel Berg wrote: [...] maybe it isn't the case fans or the CPU cooling tower fans that make the sound anyway! If nothing else helps to find the culprit, then consider to unplug all case fans to prove that it's not them. A bit more adventurous i

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 2:25 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Emanuel Berg photographed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/fan-top.jpg The case fans look like they would produce a lot of wind if really running at full speed. Whatever, i'd make a closer photo, unplug them, listen how much noise is missing, a

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 3:42 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/23/21 2:25 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Emanuel Berg photographed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/fan-top.jpg Conspicuously absent are drive cages; but I do see drive case mounting screw holes.  If drives are not needed, the mounting

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 5:05 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: But changing the profile (governor) doesn't produce any (noticable?) sound level change and also the temperature of the CPU and the GPU seem unaffected. You will not notice a change in CPU fan temperature or speed profiles

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 5:26 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Nice case. :-) Yeah, I guess :) The purpose of the plate at the bottom is to form a thermally isolated chamber for the the power supply. The unperforated portions of the top surface could be covered with sound absorbing

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 8:09 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Doubling the sound energy adds 3 db. So, the two loudest fans are around 19 dB. The HDD is 2.9 Bel = 29 dB. So the total worse-case is 35.4 dB? (With the GPU, PSU and one fan still unaccounted for.) ;;; -*- lexical-binding

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 10:25 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: For a CPU with N cores (N=4 for an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G?) and an otherwise unloaded system, your test procedure should be something like: loop over governor choices set governor loop 3 times sleep 60

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 3:17 PM, David Christensen wrote: Here is a Perl one-liner that should peg one core: $ perl -e "1 while 1" Here is a Perl one-liner that can do between 0 and 100 percent loading of one core: 2021-08-24 02:13:06 dpchrist@dipsy ~ $ perl -MTime::HiRes=time,sleep -e &

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/24/21 3:17 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: I'll run it next time I go for a walk... You want to watch the test run, so that you can monitor progress, make adjustments, and/or stop it if things go badly. Have you identified the sound source(s) that are most annoying? David

Re: New SSD card for old dell 850

2021-08-25 Thread David Christensen
On 8/25/21 4:59 AM, juh wrote: Dear all, there is a LITEONIT LMT-32L3M (LWDA) in my dell xps 850 desktop computer. I use it for the boot and system partitions, home is on a hard disk. The SSD only has 32GB and I am pondering whether I can just attach a bigger one and reinstall debian mounting

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-08-26 Thread David Christensen
On 8/25/21 6:37 PM, detr...@tuta.io wrote: Good evening, I'm having some worrying problems with LUKS my Debian 10 installation on an external hard drive. As I'm not very technical, I'll try to explain what I did and what is happening now in chronological order. Around May I installed Debian 1

Re: smart fans

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/28/21 3:55 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: You want to watch the test run, so that you can monitor progress, make adjustments, and/or stop it if things go badly. Don't worry about it... Here are the 20 first lines of the output: time, governor, processes

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/28/21 10:09 PM, detr...@tuta.io wrote: ... I have updated the BIOS. 1.  What is the make and model of the external hard drive? It is a 1Tb WD Elements WDBUZG0010BBK 2. What ISO image did you use to install Debian onto the external hard drive? What media did you put the Debian insta

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/29/21 4:59 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to another disk mounted at /medi

Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-08-31 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have an Apple MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with an Intel Core i7-4770HQ processor, 16 GB memory, and 256 GB SSD: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP719?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro The laptop has two USB 3.0 ports. I

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-08-31 Thread David Christensen
On 8/31/21 3:53 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have an Apple MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with an Intel Core i7-4770HQ processor, 16 GB memory, and 256 GB SSD: If I now power up the machine with the buster-mac USB flash drive installed, Debian starts

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-01 Thread David Christensen
On 9/1/21 1:15 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) Le mardi 31 août 2021 à 15:31 -0700, David Christensen a écrit : [...] I would like to install Debian 10 onto a USB flash drive as a self-contained, bootable, full, live installation that I use with this and other Intel-based

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/21 5:37 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 16:00:13 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: [three long posts] That was very useful. I've condensed it into a file (attached) for my own use. The footnotes are notes, guesses and queries. I tried to file a bug report agains

Re: smart fans

2021-09-03 Thread David Christensen
On 9/3/21 3:05 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Feeding the raw data into LibreOffice Calc was problematic OK, changed. Your data format still has issues. This is what LibreOffice Calc wants: time,governor,processes,CPU_temperature,system_load,CPU_fan_speed,core1_freq

Re: smart fans

2021-09-04 Thread David Christensen
On 9/3/21 7:42 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: OK, changed. Your data format still has issues. You seem to have got the old file again, check it out again, because some of those issues have already been mentioned/fixed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/cpu.txt

Re: smart fans

2021-09-07 Thread David Christensen
On 9/6/21 6:03 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: You seem to have got the old file again, check it out again, because some of those issues have already been mentioned/fixed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/cpu.txt Much better: http://www.holgerdanske.com/pub/dpchrist

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

2021-09-09 Thread David Christensen
On 9/8/21 11:07 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these options during OS installation? What is

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

2021-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 9/9/21 11:52 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:14 AM David Christensen wrote: On 9/8/21 11:07 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 9/11/21 9:55 AM, Felix Natter wrote: hello fellow Debian users, I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade fails. So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-wise), and found out

Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-15 Thread David Christensen
On 9/15/21 7:41 AM, nimrod wrote: Hi, my devices (pc, laptops, smartphone) all can surf the internet without problems. So one would say that the router is working properly. But computer A cannot access computer B via SSH as it's alwais being doing for years, and viceversa. They cannot even ping

Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-16 Thread David Christensen
On 9/16/21 12:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 sep 21, 17:48:39, Hans wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2021, 16:41:21 CEST schrieb nimrod: Hi, got the same problem, when the ethernet interface is up, too and I am on wifi. This a problem with the gateway settings. Unless my understandin

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-17 Thread David Christensen
On 9/17/21 1:46 AM, Brian wrote: However, a new discussion should be started in a*new* thread, not plonked willy-nilly into an existing thread. This is the second time recently that someone has done that. The first time it involved an experienced user! Guilty as charged. :-( Using Thunder

Re: Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 9/18/21 10:28 AM, John Conover wrote: Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? My assumption is that the lock tab on SD cards is read by the controller inside the SD card, which then provides rea

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 9/18/21 4:35 AM, Myron wrote: Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What I'm after is getting a 16 Gb Class 10 A1 Mi

Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware

2021-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/19/21 11:14 PM, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: i start bullseye installer from usb stick it tells me to insert usb stick containing firmwarei fail in this step many times after many failures, i learn that firmware shall be in vfat partition, not ext4and i have to remove installer stick so

Re: Message display settings by character encoding (was Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware)

2021-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/20/21 4:16 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-09-20 at 03:21, David Christensen wrote: Your message displays strangely on Thunderbird (oversized Courier font?). In my case, it displays with unusually-small characters and what looks like a different font, not unusually large ones. Please

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them (other than during a short window). My though was

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 9/21/21 9:10 PM, Paul M. Foster wrote: Yeah, I use git in other contexts. In this particular instance, when these projects were created, git didn't exist. While I could implement it here, the other user is on a Mac. I've had experience trying to install "normal" software (like git) on a Mac

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread David Christensen
On 9/22/21 1:04 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, David Christensen wrote: On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. Have you considered snapshots -- e.g. btrfs, LVM, or ZFS? I don't see how they help me - I am already

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread David Christensen
On 9/25/21 2:08 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Please help with this: # aptitude update Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] E: Repository 'http://ftp.d

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread David Christensen
On 9/29/21 05:59, Nate Bargmann wrote: Earlier this year I purchased a nice Lenovo Carbon X1 with an NVME SSD with Win 10 Pro installed. Ordinarily I would reformat the drive without a second thought but in this case I really do have occasional need to use Win 10 (Kenwood radio programming mostl

Re: About user and password on Debian 10 (Solved)

2021-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/21 22:32, fran...@libero.it wrote: I wanted to let everyone know that I was able to fix the problem even though I will have to open another thread to fix the cause of the problem. The cause of not being able to enter the Debian user desktop was that the / partition was too full! I had i

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/21 22:40, fran...@libero.it wrote: Taking a cue from the Thread "About user and password on Debian 10" I would like to transfer the partitions related to Debian 10 to a larger HD, but with the possibility of having the / partition larger than the current one. It's possible? I was think

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/21 05:40, fran...@libero.it wrote: About the questions sent: Thank you for the information. Fujitsu Esprimo P2560 MI4W-D2041 https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/IndexDownload.asp?lng=en&OpenTab= FTS_ESPRIMOP15xxP2440P2540P2550P2560P2760__1079164.PDF FTS_MainboardD3041ShortDescription_

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I tried the first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of ways... For some reaso

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread David Christensen
On 10/3/21 09:21, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:33:24 pm David Christensen wrote: On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-04 Thread David Christensen
On 10/4/21 20:10, L Dimov wrote: I am having slower performance on Debian 11 with software only from the "main" repositories after upgrade from 10.It is on a decently powerful Dell laptop with 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD, 7 processors Intel Core i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz The Intel Core i5-8550U proc

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-04 Thread David Christensen
On 10/4/21 22:58, David Christensen wrote: The Intel Core i5-8550U correction: i5-8350u David

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-05 Thread David Christensen
On 10/5/21 06:21, L Dimov wrote: On Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 1:59:21 AM EDT, David Christensen wrote: If your laptop has hardware that requires proprietary firmware, I very much doubt that the firmware in question will ever be open-sourced. Without the proprietary firmware, the best

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 04:18, Josef Strýček wrote: Hi, I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var /tmp /opt. You should be able to achieve that layout with the Debian installer (d-i) by choosin

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 05:50, detr...@tuta.io wrote: Hello friends, I'm sending this last email to inform you that I have given up on trying to recover the contents of my external hard drive and that I formatted it. I hope you have implemented backups procedures, to prevent losing data in the future.

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:29:48, David Christensen wrote: Once Debian is running, I suggest that you connect the HDD, partition the HDD using GPT, create one partition using 95% of available space, initialize a LUKS container inside the partition, and create

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 13:13, Joe wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:29:48 -0700 David Christensen wrote: I must detach e-mail attachments and save them on the server You could run an IMAP server on your server, set up an account in your email client with a suitable directory structure and drag and drop

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to prefer using a LUKS container instead? I use LUKS because ZFS native encryption was not available

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 10/12/21 21:47, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 12 oct 21, 00:02:50, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-15 Thread David Christensen
On 10/14/21 23:33, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hello everyone I am a mathematics PhD student completing my dissertation at Yeditepe University Istanbul working under Prof Ilhan Ikeda who is at Bosphorus University Istanbul. I am involved in setting up some seminars, keeping correspondence with other math

Re: question from total newbie. a little help please

2021-10-17 Thread David Christensen
On 10/17/21 6:00 AM, JAMES BOSWELL wrote: if i divide my hard drive and install debian lynx on it. will i be able to effectively run debian on this laptop? Device name LAPTOP-R4DB7V5U Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10GHz 2.59 GHz Installed RAM 4.00 GB (3.81 GB usable) Device ID

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread David Christensen
On 10/17/21 2:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: normally when a storm comes through i turn off the PC anyways because I really don't want to have things fried (even if i do have the UPS and surge protection). Hmmm does turning them off make any difference w.r.t a surge large enough to pass through t

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-18 Thread David Christensen
On 10/18/21 9:25 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello Gurus, I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may perhaps be able to get the drive replaced. Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-20 Thread David Christensen
> On 10/18/21 6:52 PM, Reco wrote: >>Hi. >> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: >>> I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, >>> but I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may >>> perhaps be able to get the

Re: Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" ...

2021-10-24 Thread David Christensen
On 10/24/21 12:40 PM, Ricardo C. Lopez wrote: Use case: At work (a school) they use Windows 10 and IT is kind of fundamentalist about it. So I am thinking of "just" using the RAM and the processor in their machine. I am thinking of: * running Debian Live from an external USB attached DVD play

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >