machines in that era were hit and miss regarding usb booting. sometimes only one of the ports was bootable. if you are able to access the bios setup area where the boot devices/order settings are then you can insert the usb stick in each port and cold-boot the machine to the bios settings area and see if the usb stick shows up in the boot order list. as was suggested earlier in the thread, if you have experience burning and booting cds and/or other lightweight *nix distros you will probably figure things out. good luck and keep us posted!

so the systemd guy worked for military-industrial-complex-contractor-redhat...
and now works for military-industrial-complex-contractor-microsoft...
and what he works on is part of this thing where millions of lives are in the balance:

is it just me or does anyone else think this will end badly?   :rolleyes:   :wavingarmswildly:

quote

from

~$ apt info gnat
Package: gnat
Version: 12.2
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 14.3 kB
Depends: gnat-12
Suggests: ada-reference-manual-2012
Tag: devel::compiler, devel::lang:ada, implemented-in::ada,
 implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::dummy, role::program,
 scope::utility, suite::gnu, works-with::software:source
Download-Size: 4,716 B
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
Description: GNU Ada compiler
 GNAT is a full-featured Ada 2012 compiler.  A quote from
 http://www.adaic.org says: "Easily reused and maintained, readable
 and user friendly, Ada code facilitates such massive software
 projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
 be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
 under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
 been at stake."  Ada is the language for real-world, mission-critical
 programming.
 .
 At the same time, Ada's radical type safety helps novice programmers
 avoid many common mistakes and deliver their software on time (see
 http://www.adaic.org/atwork/trains.html).
 .
 This empty package depends on the default version of the Ada compiler
 for Debian, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection. Its
 enforces the same version for all Ada compilations, as described in
 the Debian Ada Policy.

seems dangerous to let the ai-bots hack away at such critical code. shazbot.

you might take a closer look at /etc/default/networking(on our daedalus the CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes is commented out)

# Configuration for networking init script being run during
# the boot sequence

# Set to 'no' to skip interfaces configuration on boot
#CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes

# Don't configure these interfaces. Shell wildcards supported/
#EXCLUDE_INTERFACES=

# Set to 'yes' to enable additional verbosity
#VERBOSE=no

# Method to wait for the network to become online,
# for services that depend on a working network:
# - ifup: wait for ifup to have configured an interface.
# - route: wait for a route to a given address to appear.
# - ping/ping6: wait for a host to respond to ping packets.
# - none: don't wait.
#WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=ifup

# Which interface to wait for.
# If none given, wait for all auto interfaces, or if there are none,
# wait for at least one hotplug interface.
#WAIT_ONLINE_IFACE=

# Which address to wait for for route, ping and ping6 methods.
# If none is given for route, it waits for a default gateway.
#WAIT_ONLINE_ADDRESS=

# Timeout in seconds for waiting for the network to come online.
#WAIT_ONLINE_TIMEOUT=300

indeed @ralph.ronnquist offers the correct correction and a light poke as well...sigh...

throughout decades of electronics usage we have always sought to turn off anything/everything we can/could to reduce attack-surface / bandwidth-consumption / doxxing / identity-theft / etc.

once again...and on a daily basis...humbled & _hat_in_hand_head_bowed_

nevertheless,

Be Excellent to each other and Party On!

try adding

ipv6.disable=1

to the commandline bootcode.

also i seem to recall needing to comment out all the ipv6 stuff in the /etc/hosts file

# commented out all the ipv6 stuff to quiet the /var/log/exim4 report logs
#::1		 localhost
#::1             ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
#fe00::0         ip6-localnet
#fe00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
#ff00::0	 ip6-mcastprefix
#fe02::1         ip6-allnodes
#fe02::1         ip6-allrouters
#ff02::1	 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2	 ip6-allrouters
#ff02::3	 ip6-allhosts
#fe80::1%lo0	 localhost

you might even check what NetworkManager reports

sudo NetworkManager --print-config

keep us posted on your progress.

some background music perhaps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSG3PNztWg8

the infamous music video that broke the tubes:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/gangnam-style-overflows-int_max-forces-youtube-to-go-64-bit/

wonder how many people are using iSG3PNztWg8 as a passphrase/password?

i Star Gate 3 Person Narrative zippy tunes Waste gate 8

obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/936/

semi-obligatory explainxkcd:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Strength

another question that will never be answered honestly is what google is doing with all that capacity now that they "claim" they aren't still "caching" the WorldWideWeb anymore?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

in all probability they are still caching on the backend to satisfy their internal requirements(not to mention servicing the global intelligence establishments), just lowering their operational bandwidth consumption on the front end(at the expense of the end-user naturally).

also this is thought-provoking as well:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-on-internet-monopoly-youve-never-heard-of/

further reading:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/

especially the comments:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/#comment-42616

and while we are at it, who ultimately should control Skynet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

see also Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

obligatory skynet links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

and here is another bigger question/thought:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

not to mention the great pumpkin heading the patch full of gourds again...

greenday anyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot#Themes

black sabbath?

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=51845#p51845

***********************************************************************************************

edited december 7th, 2024 to include another good link referencing the "hiding of the cache"

https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Legacy_of_a_Dying_World_Wide_Web.shtml

edited december 8th, 2024 to include more google

https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Google_Does_Not_Have_a_Search_Engine_Anymore.shtml

tick, tick, tick...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/

perhaps slightly off-topic but still interesting/thought-provoking:
(especially for the distro/curious/experimenters/hoppers)

https://easyos.org/user/how-to-fix-broken-video.html

Barry Kauler's Devuan Daedalus version of EasyOS(woofwoof!):

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=12851

more for those so inclined:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=136062#p136062

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=136066#p136066

can snowballs go down rabbitholes? indeed.

https://devuanpup.wordpress.com/

have had many mysterious mysteries manifest over the last 40 years. especially with those printers.

mostly for future thread visitors:

https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops