Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:41:36 -0400 fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 10/26/19 5:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Has any of you been using Devuan as a rescue CD? If so, how has it > > been working out for you, and do you have any suggestions to make > > the Devuan rescue experience easy

[DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

Hello, I wanted to warn those of you using the Raspberry Pi or other aarch64 Devuan ASCII installs. The defaults on the linux kernel flags have the options rootflags=noload. This has the effect of disabling ext4 filesystem journaling, checksumming, and all other safeguards. In addition to that t

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

On 10/26/19 5:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Has any of you been using Devuan as a rescue CD? If so, how has it been working out for you, and do you have any suggestions to make the Devuan rescue experience easy and productive? System Rescue CD recently switched from Gentoo to Arch, thus acqu

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:06:43 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Has any of you been using Devuan as a rescue CD? If so, how has it > been working out for you, and do you have any suggestions to make the > Devuan rescue experience easy and productive? > > System Rescue CD recently switched fr

Re: [DNG] Fonts in testing/unstable are some ugly

On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:51:07 +0200 Stephane Ascoet wrote: > > I would dream of a tool that lets me know what font is in what > > package. > > Hi, I think that can do it. You can extract fonts from programs with the GNU debugger. Simply dump the virtual memory ranges

Re: [DNG] Problem installing Devuan-ascii

Hello, I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'Legacy Mode'. I'll assume your talking about BIOS. If you want to use the installer to install grub2-bios make sure to boot the installer disk in BIOS mode. Vice versa to install grub2-EFI make sure to boot the disk in EFI mode. Depending on your impleme

[DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

Hi all, Has any of you been using Devuan as a rescue CD? If so, how has it been working out for you, and do you have any suggestions to make the Devuan rescue experience easy and productive? System Rescue CD recently switched from Gentoo to Arch, thus acquiring systemd. I wouldn't have a big prob

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

Hello, On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:03:11 -0400 fsmithred wrote: > On 10/26/19 9:54 AM, s@po wrote: > > >>> Where does 'apt-cache policy' get the version number? Oh, maybe it reads > >>> it from the repo. I see that we have: > > >> It could be.. > >> Another place, I searched for and makes sense to m

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

On 10/26/19 9:54 AM, s@po wrote: Where does 'apt-cache policy' get the version number? Oh, maybe it reads it from the repo. I see that we have: It could be.. Another place, I searched for and makes sense to me: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/ascii/Release So I think it comes f

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

Hello, On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:32:55 +0100 s@po wrote: > Hello fsmithred, > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:51:21 -0400 > fsmithred via Dng wrote: > > > On 10/26/19 1:49 AM, Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 2019-10-26 02:27, s@po wrote: > > >> You see here the '2.0' String, and i

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

Hello fsmithred, On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:51:21 -0400 fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 10/26/19 1:49 AM, Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2019-10-26 02:27, s@po wrote: > >> You see here the '2.0' String, and it comes from the funtion > >> guess_release_from_apt().. like you can see ab

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

Hi Pontus Goffe, > Hi, > > On 2019-10-26 02:27, s@po wrote: > > You see here the '2.0' String, and it comes from the funtion > > guess_release_from_apt().. like you can see above.. > > The guess_release_from_apt() function: > > 228 def guess_release_from_apt(origin='Devuan', component='main

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

On 10/26/19 1:49 AM, Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote: Hi, On 2019-10-26 02:27, s@po wrote: You see here the '2.0' String, and it comes from the funtion guess_release_from_apt().. like you can see above.. The guess_release_from_apt() function: 228 def guess_release_from_apt(origin='Devuan', com

Re: [DNG] Problem installing Devuan-ascii

24/10/2019 11:19:14 -0400 Hendrik Boom : > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:04:36AM +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: [...] > > I suggest you could create partitions *before* the installing process, using > > a "live" tool such is: > > https://gparted.org/livecd.php > > > > Then install using these pa