Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive? FYI, I have the sy

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 14:27, mick crane wrote: might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs another old buster lenovo doing email another Buster PC I do bits of programming on. Windows PC I

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 15:04, Weaver wrote: On 13-10-2020 07:27, mick crane wrote: I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs I personally have apf-firewall onboard, and it's hard to beat in my opinion, for ease of config as well as efficiency, but pfsense is

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-13 08:39, Dennis Wicks wrote: David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-13 18:01, David Christensen wrote: Boot the Debian 9 or 10 installer, run the following commands, and post the console session: # smartctl -i /dev/sda My bad -- d-i does not include smartctl(8). What I'm after is make, model, interface, and firmware version information

Re: Cannot install elixir from buster-backports

2020-10-15 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-15 01:52, Baptiste Beauplat wrote: Hi, (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list) I cannot figure out why I can't install elixir from backports: $ sudo debootstrap buster buster $ sudo chroot buster /bin/bash # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backpor

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-16 15:09, Mike McClain wrote: I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not performing exactly as I expected. The man page says: --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs A section of the backup script is so: Params=(-a --inplace --delete);

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-19 14:12, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 15:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105 NOOO ;-) Excuse me while I go grep 'set -e' -R ... 2020-10-19 20:01:44 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkyw

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-19 04:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 03:01:13PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I try to use all lower case letters for variable names and all upper case letters for constants. ALL_UPPER_CASE is reserved for internal shell variables, and environment variables

Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 06:01:13 PM David Christensen wrote: I don't use Bourne arrays, and I barely understand how the shell interpolates lists and preserves items containing whitespace. When I can't figure it out, I switch to Perl. On 2020-10-19 05:29, rhkra...@gmail.com

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-20 12:58, A. Kapetanovic wrote: Hi, I have a problem with my laptop, it looks like a SSD bug : some parts in a file vanishes (a function in a perl program). I have an asus laptop which uses intel RST technology (Rapid Storage Technology), and I wonder if the problem can come from t

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-21 10:21, A. Kapetanovic wrote: David Christensen writes: Intel hardware RAID is best supported on Windows -- install a driver that includes an administration GUI, and you can see what the hardware is doing. I used smartctl, short and long test. Both seems to be OK (the shell is

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-22 03:01, A. Kapetanovic wrote: One second please, I have discovered something else : the problem is the same on a external HDD USB drive. amel@laptopasus:/media/amel/c4e65f75-d3ed-46f3-950d-bf833b0b409c$ ./algo- B1.pl Undefined subroutine &main::lisblocage called at ./algo-B1.pl l

Re: Bizarre packet loss

2020-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-22 19:07, Gregory Seidman wrote: First off, here's the network architecture: ISP (untrusted) router (NAT) | OpenWRT (trusted) router (NAT) ... wireless device | Cisco (unmanaged) switch---+ | | Netgear (unmanaged) switchwired devic

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-22 21:48, A. Kapetanovic wrote: 23 oct. 2020 04:27:38 David Christensen : Who wrote algo- B1.pl?  Who designed the database?  Are they for a personal project, for a business, or something else? I designed all and it is for a personal business Okay. Do you own the four books I

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-24 09:56, A. Kapetanovic wrote: David Christensen writes: Do you own the four books I previously recommended? Have please someone a advice for me ? Buy, read, enter all or part of the examples, and solve all or part of the exercises in "Learning Perl". The more ex

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-29 04:42, mick crane wrote: hello, I am totally clueless about audio files. Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. Would like to combine them together into one file with ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file presumably each file has meta

Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread David Christensen
To: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Hello David Christensen, Thank you for your email response. We apologize for the delay in our response; we have had staffing cuts due to the pandemic. We tried to contact you by phone xx, but were unable to reach you. We understand that you are requesti

Re: Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-11 17:43, Olivier wrote: On 2020-11-11 18:59, Felix Miata wrote: Thanks for the offers of help. Any competent Linux or BSD user understands that copying a USB flash drive with a live Linux distribution and a diagnostic application to a raw image file is easy. Apparently, Seaga

Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-13 Thread David Christensen
Hello David Christensen, Thank you for contacting Seagate. This is a final email. We would like to inform you that due to the time frame and lack of response to our previous emails, this case will be closed. Feel free to create another online ticket if you need assistance and we will be happy to

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-21 08:40, Andy Smith wrote: I'm used to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for everything. how do you choose to provide redundancy for your ESP any why did you make that choice? I MBR and single 2.5" SSD's for system drives. For desktops and servers, I moun

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-23 09:10, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to cre

debian-10.6.0-amd64 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device sdb2_crypt

2020-11-27 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a desktop computer with an Intel DQ67SW motherboard and an Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB system drive connected to the first SATA port. I downloaded: debian-10.6.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso I verified the GPG signature on the checksum file and verified the checksum on the IS

Re: debian-10.6.0-amd64 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device sdb2_crypt

2020-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-27 22:39, David wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 16:22, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your mail client so that it does not put the sender's e-mail address into the body of your reply. Note that the system drive is 'sdb' (th

Re: debian-10.6.0-amd64 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device sdb2_crypt

2020-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-28 01:03, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 28 nov 20, 00:46:22, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-11-27 22:39, David wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 16:22, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your mail client so that it does not put the sender's e-mail address into the

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Why? Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory You should backup

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/6/20 11:15 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: It's nice to see that I am not the only sick puppy out there. At 69 years old, I still don't have much trouble with getting in touch with my inner 12-year-old when it comes to intrusive marketing which is so prevalent these days. I fo

Re: Firefox extensions keep disappearing

2020-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/6/20 11:43 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I have several Firefox extensions (uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Privacy Badger) installed from Debian packages. Recently (the past few weeks / months?), they have begun to disappear from Firefox - they stop funcioning, and they don't appear o

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-08 07:29, Fred wrote: Hello, I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick.  The fine print on the package says it has SecureAccess software.  It is so secure it prevents me from writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus infested, scourge of the Earth softw

Re: ssh access with all ports close.

2020-12-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-09 16:33, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: I had a Buster server at home, but the owner of the house close all ports in the router, i can not access it anymore; i rented a server without root access, and transfer the server. There are many vendors who can rent a Debian virtual private serv

Re: NULL pointer dereference

2020-12-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-19 08:13, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: Hi there, I found the following in my "server" log: == BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: [#2] SMP PTI CPU: 5 PID: 12441 Comm: awk Tainted: G

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-22 09:11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: See the quoted paragraph, below, quoted from the [[https://wiki.debian.org/LVM#Encrypted_LVM][LVM#Encrypted_LVM]] wiki. It seems to me that the idea of creating and saving backup passwords is something of a red herring (to borrow a "Briticism"). Th

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-24 10:06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 07:20:39 PM David Christensen wrote: Thank you for offering to improve Debian documentation. :-) You're welcome, but I wasn't making a general offer to improve documentation, just to fix something that

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-01 10:06, Steven Mainor wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hardware raid controller that will hopefully be supported by the kernel and/or open source drivers to put in my desktop computer. Any input welcome, thanks. Why? What is your computer? What Deb

Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-01 Thread David Christensen
debian-users: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus STFW and RTFM: https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus -> Using only the integrated GPU https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus#UsingOnlyOneGPU I have disabled Optimus i

Re: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H is there a BUG in this motherboard?

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 01:06, ike wrote: On 01/01/2021 11:42 PM, ike wrote: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H I have tried to install Debian 10.7 . I have enable Iommu and CSM. When the menu comes up it does not matter what I select after I hit enter the screen is just a mess can you help

Re: Debian Squeeze Installer: HTTP proxy server to access outsideworld?

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 00:48, FadeOut FF wrote: I want http proxy server If you are asking how to respond to the "HTTP Proxy?" question in the Debian Installer, I press and leave it blank. David

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 00:11, Steven Mainor wrote: All, thanks for all the help so far. For all the people asking why, a few reasons. First I love to tinker with and learn about things and the only raid controller I have access to is on my production server and I don't really get to "play" with it muc

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 03:24, Andrei POPESCU wrote: http://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/battle-testing-data-integrity-verification-with-zfs-btrfs-and-mdadm-dm-integrity.html That looks interesting. Thanks for the link. :-) On 2021-01-02 08:08, Richard Hector wrote: On 3/01/21 12:24 am, Andrei POPES

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus I have disabled Optimus in the CMOS Setup: Video -> Opti

Re: ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 13:10, Gregory Seidman wrote: I've been running 10+ LVM volumes on top of dmcrypt on top of md RAID1 on Debian for many, many years and it has served me well. I've been double-mirroring (i.e. three active drives in the RAID array) for the last several with the idea that I can manual

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 01:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 02 ian 21, 13:35:06, David Christensen wrote: AIUI a journaling filesystem provides a two-step process to achieve atomic writes of multiple sectors to disk -- e.g. a process wants to put some data into a block here (say, a file), a block there

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 06:51, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog messages easily from previous boot with this

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
(Re-ordered for clarity.) On 2021-01-03 04:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 01:52:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: I

Re: enable journal

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 15:52, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2021-01-03 15:41 (UTC-0800): Again, not of much use (?). How do I get information out of the systemd journal? sudo mkdir /var/log/journal or turn it on in /etc/systemd/journald.conf. STFW 'systemd jo

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-01 15:51, David Christensen wrote: 2021-01-01 12:18:31 root@dipsy ~ # lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) On 2021-01-03 17:43, Alexander V

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor &q

Re: HBA or SATA PCIe card FSC TX150 S7 Server

2021-01-05 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-05 10:46, basti wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) we have a old FSC TX150 S7 Server and need more disk space. So we want to by a https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=153. The diskspace is used as fileserver / simple HDD no SSD and the network connection is 1Gbit round about 100mb/s. So I

Re: question about intel gpu hang

2021-01-07 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-07 13:52, Muhamad Moghadam wrote: Hi Everybody,I have a pc with intel gpu and run it on fedora, but intel gpu will be hang with fedora kernel ( 5.7 or more ). If I install debian, will my problem be solved? Perhaps. It is next to impossible to determine whether or not operating sys

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 11:07, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: [174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x address=0xcf99c100 flags=0x]

Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 09:50, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone on here using a Displayport to VGA adapter? I have two Star Tech DP2VGA2. If so: * How's it working? I have not experienced any issues with them. * Does it handle at least 1920x1080 resolution? Yes.; that is the maximu

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 14:34, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 Make sure you wear a beaded neckless while doing that under a full moon. I used to think "a cable is a

Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 14:40, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2021-01-13 14:15 (UTC-0800): rhkramer wrote: * Does it handle at least 1920x1080 resolution? Yes.; that is the maximum resolution for this model. I'll bet on double check you would find the limit is 1920

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 13:55, David Christensen wrote: Download the manufacturer diagnostic utility for whatever brand disk(s) you own and run it.  I prefer tools that run on bootable media (e.g. USB flash drive); Windows may be required.

Re: old red cables cause Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 15:46, Dennis Wicks wrote: Well, this is all very interesting! I have *two* SATALink/SATARaid expansion cards and neither of them have any red cables! Okay. Are you confident the cables are good? They are at pci addresses 05:00 and 05:01! How do I tell which is which? Do y

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

2021-01-14 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-14 07:41, Jesper Dybdal wrote: I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive. Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, partition the disk, restore all files, fix fstab if necessary, run update-grub and grub-install in a chroot en

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-16 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-15 21:02, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the int

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-16 10:28, Dan Hitt wrote: Regarding Andrei's suggestion of using nm-connection-editor, ... GUI tools can be nice when you have an idea of what they are doing "under the hood". With networking, multiple hoods are involved and many are inaccessible (notably your ISP and the Intern

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-17 12:15, Long Wind wrote: wifi is ok with cell phone, it isn't with buster allow-hotplug wlx0022c0001a59 iface wlx0022c0001a59 inet dhcp wireless-essid JHotel buster can connect to wifi with above but after some time, connection is lost i have to run ifdown/ifup again any idea? Tha

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-17 10:52, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hello, New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements plea

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-18 00:52, Long Wind wrote: Thank David, but my problem disappear, i don't why Maybe your neighbor(s) stopped using Wi-Fi. Do the radio survey and see what choices you have for the active channel(s) (2.4 and/or 5 Hhz bands). David

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-18 01:00, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/1/21 9:44 am, Jerry Mellon wrote: Currently the fstab file reads as follows. Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: ST9500325AS Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 byt

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-18 09:33, Jerry Mellon wrote: The fstab with the new drive now reads, # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks ar

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-18 01:14, Long Wind wrote: buster's wifi connection is ok for several hours, so i think problem disappearbut after rebooting pc, problem appears again wifi is provided by hotel, they hide AP somewhere, i don't know where, i think it's reliable buster can connect to hot spot of cell

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-18 16:40, Dan Hitt wrote: First, the setup is that i have 3 hosts: A --- runs debian 10 B --- runs linux mint 16.04 C --- old hardware which cannot connect to my internet-modem-router. Each of the 3 hosts has 2 network interfaces; there are thus 3 LANs (local area networks), and e

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 04:47, mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 Yes, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation One feature

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig et

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 14:35, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet card in it, as well as the 1 gig port on the motherboard. Each is completely independent, so I have: - one connection to the

Re: Help request installing wi-fi/video-card proprietary drivers [Debian 10 stable]

2021-01-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-20 01:46, ueki...@libero.it wrote: Hi, I'm relatively new to Linux (~1 year distro-hopping dual-booting with win10) and a week ago I decided to install Debian 10 stable over Manjaro on my laptop. After the first (unsuccessful) attempt on installing a non-free firmware-included unof

Re: new harddrive degraded speed

2021-01-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-20 15:21, brainf...@posteo.net wrote: i bought a new harddrive western digital red plus 6tb === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD60EFRX-68L0BN1 Serial Number:    WD-WX62D60C9L6X LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 212e6b9ad Firmware

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-20 20:31, Dan Hitt wrote: I have a machine that currently has linux mint 16.04 on it. I would like to install debian 10 on it, but the installer really wants access to a cd drive, and one just isn't available. However, the linux mint 16.04 system does have grub2 on it. So it is po

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining technologies. I want these cards to be put to us

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 14:26, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and this new/old one is just backup for them. Can I assume that Debian installer in some expert

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 15:10, David Christensen wrote: A key issue with storage is bit rot. I should have said "bit rot protection". David

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 15:29, Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting all; I have a problem, using amanda, locally built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. How or what do I do to fix it? How about chmod(1) as root? # chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind David

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 15:35, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-22 15:29, Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting all; I have a problem, using amanda, locally built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. How or what do I do to fix it? How about chmod(1) as root? # chmod u+s

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 19:31, Pankaj Jangid wrote: David Christensen writes: On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment

Re: setuid question

2021-01-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 22:40, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 23 January 2021 00:23:45 David Christensen wrote: But, building and installing Amanda from source is turning into a cluster f***. That's also why I drive the build with a script so it has a constant set of ./configure options, and a

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-23 07:01, mick crane wrote: On 2021-01-23 12:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 22 ian 21, 22:26:46, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and th

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-24 03:36, mick crane wrote: Let's say I have one PC and 2 unpartitioned disks. Please tell us why you must put the OS and the backup images on the same RAID mirror of two HDD's, and why you cannot add one (or two?) more devices for the OS. David

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-25 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-24 21:23, mick crane wrote: On 2021-01-24 20:10, David Christensen wrote: Please tell us why you must put the OS and the backup images on the same RAID mirror of two HDD's, and why you cannot add one (or two?) more devices for the OS. I think I'll go with the firs

Re: [OT] Wifi AP for Gigabit LAN/WAN

2021-01-25 Thread David Christensen
Am 25.01.21 um 20:16 schrieb basti: Hello, at the moment I use 802.11n /2.4GHz wifi. I get 1 Gbit down/250 Mbit up WAN in 2 months. I'm search for wifi AP to get the best out of my WAN connection. I know I need 5GHz wifi. Are there any recommends? On 2021-01-25 13:11, Frank Michael Dienst wro

Re: [OT] Wifi AP for Gigabit LAN/WAN

2021-01-25 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-25 14:53, Dan Ritter wrote: Frank Michael Dienst wrote: Hi, have a look to ubiquiti-AP. https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/ The AP-AC-Pro systems with two RJ45-connectors work with bonding up to 2,5 Gbit. Has Ubiquiti started complying with the GPL yet? They were remarkabl

Re: [OT] Wifi AP for Gigabit LAN/WAN

2021-01-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-26 01:07, basti wrote: On 26.01.21 00:39, David Christensen wrote: Am 25.01.21 um 20:16 schrieb basti: Hello, at the moment I use 802.11n /2.4GHz wifi. I get 1 Gbit down/250 Mbit up WAN in 2 months. I'm search for wifi AP to get the best out of my WAN connection. I know I need

Re: [OT] Wifi AP for Gigabit LAN/WAN

2021-01-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-26 01:05, basti wrote: On 26.01.21 09:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 25 ian 21, 20:16:21, basti wrote: Hello, at the moment I use 802.11n /2.4GHz wifi. I get 1 Gbit down/250 Mbit up WAN in 2 months. I'm search for wifi AP to get the best out of my WAN connection. I know I need 5GHz

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-30 22:00, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to the flash drive via the terminal, it

Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop

2021-02-01 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-01 04:46, Richard Owlett wrote: I have just installed Debian 10.7 to my Lenovo T510 Thinkpad having copied debian-10.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a flash drive [the machine is intentionally isolated from the internet]. When logging in as user, everything appears normal. *HOWEVER* when lo

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-04 15:03, Mark Fletcher wrote: Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the details of how IP networks work, in particular the communications that occur between router devices that are designed to support home networks? Lucas writes very good books, including "Network

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

2021-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-08 00:40, Marco Möller wrote: You could bypass any password request during boot to the console and then fix it by setting the desired password newly. The boot parameter for bypassing all password request an right away becoming logged in as user root is:     init=/sbin/sulogin --fo

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

2021-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-08 15:15, David Wright wrote: On Mon 08 Feb 2021 at 13:02:21 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-08 00:40, Marco Möller wrote: You could bypass any password request during boot to the console and then fix it by setting the desired password newly. The boot parameter for

Re: sshfs has fubared mount

2021-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-08 21:01, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have sshfs setup so I can move files around between this box and 4 others, 3 of which are now running buster. Works only for the user, me. My Debian machines are Stretch, but I would expect that the basics of sshfs(1) have not change

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

2021-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-08 23:22, Anssi Saari wrote: David Christensen writes: Questions: 1. How do I make a copy of a boot entry? (So that I can edit the copy and keep the original.) In Grub, you don't really need to since changes are not saved. For permanent changes then in Linux edit the va

Re: sshfs has fubared mount

2021-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-09 05:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 February 2021 02:29:02 David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-08 21:01, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have sshfs setup so I can move files around between this box and 4 others, 3 of which are now running buster. Works only for the

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

2021-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-09 00:54, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:32:11PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-08 23:22, Anssi Saari wrote: David Christensen writes: 2. How do I insert a tab character with the GRUB editor? (Pressing causes the editor to attempt command

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

2021-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-09 04:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:26:22PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: *Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (recovery mode) 5. Press the down arrow key to select the "... (recovery

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

2021-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-09 07:35, David Wright wrote: On Mon 08 Feb 2021 at 18:26:22 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-08 15:15, David Wright wrote: On Mon 08 Feb 2021 at 13:02:21 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-08 00:40, Marco Möller wrote: You could bypass any password request

Re: question about installing debian or some linux system on an external hard drive

2021-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-10 02:58, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hi everyone, Is it possible and sensible to install debian or a linux system to an external hard drive connected to a system via the usb port, while keeping the current hard drive on the machine unchanged? Yes, but: 1. Document your CMOS settings. A

Re: Need Help

2021-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 09.02.2021 20:46, griffin...@verizon.net wrote: Please see attached. If the attachment is, say, 20 kB (8 pages) or less, please post. If larger, please post the most relevant portions and provide a public URL for the rest. David

Re: Need Help

2021-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-10 13:48, David Christensen wrote: On 09.02.2021 20:46, griffin...@verizon.net wrote: Please see attached. If the attachment is, say, 20 kB (8 pages) or less, please post.  If larger, please post the most relevant portions and provide a public URL for the rest. I found the

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-13 01:27, mick crane wrote: I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of files to me/users which is probably no good for backing up. There's that problem then anothe

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