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#76 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Canon LBP6020 » 2025-07-27 09:14:18
Kyocera also is a possible choice.
#77 Re: Other Issues » Sync of daedalus-backports <-> bookworm-backports? » 2025-07-25 07:20:50
what about chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org?
Chimaera isn't yet archived.
#78 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-25 07:20:03
Have a look at https://www.devuan.org/. Chimaera is oldstable, but not yet archived.
#79 Re: Installation » Fresh install vs dist-upgrade for next release » 2025-07-24 16:51:26
I do either one depending on the situation. If there is reason to resize partitioning, or significant changes in my setup like another init system, another desktop, I prefer fresh install. But I have also performed various dist-upgrades since I started to have Debian on my workstation starting with Squeeze.
#80 Re: Installation » Installation doesn't work » 2025-07-22 21:44:50
So I mount ISO and then use general path instead of pointing on every directory of it?
No. Do NOT mount the iso. I assume you have the iso as a file in your Download directory. You cp the file, or dd it to the USB.
You do:
# cd /home/$USER/Download
# cp iso.file.spec /dev/sdxBTW: you could also use the netinstall. The installers on the netinstall the CD and the DVD are exactly the same. The amount of SW coming with the media are different.
#81 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Calculator freezes » 2025-07-22 19:59:37
I am sorry, I thought I responded to such a topic earlier. Maybe I mistook that for the German Debian forum.
Anyway, here is a useful link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1059773
#82 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Calculator freezes » 2025-07-22 18:35:33
Please use the forum search, known problem.
#83 Re: Installation » Installation doesn't work » 2025-07-22 10:30:42
-- Enter UEFI -- Configure for USB partition as boot priority --
This is a residue from the old legacy bioses. The procedure to place the USB stick as first boot option is no more required on UEFI bioses. There you go and use the boot override. You PC should have a key to call up the boot menu (on my ASUS MBs its F8, on many others its F12 ... read the manual), and there you select the stick with the uefi prefix.
Give it a try, maybe this is the culprit.
#84 Re: Installation » Daedalus 5.0.0 iso » 2025-07-21 10:39:55
Look at the Download link on the top of this page. 5.0.0 has been replaced by 5.0.1.
#85 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Daedalus unusable with multiple monitors - Fixed in Excalibur » 2025-07-14 11:13:32
I don't want Xwayland and don't know whether Chimaera used it as I had no need to check - it just worked. Is there an alternative, other than Wayland which doesn't work at all with a second monitor plugged in?
Don't be mistaken that you use Wayland on Daedalus. Your system is setup with X11 as your inxi shows. This XWayland stuff is just a compatibility layer.
#86 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Transfering an OS from HD to SSD » 2025-06-30 06:48:24
Don't worry about wear on a modern SSD. They have such a large TWB that normal use on a workstation does not kill or even limit the lifetime. More than a decade ago when SSDs were new I used to put /var and /tmp onto a HDD. I have stopped that along time ago.
#87 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox ESR on systems that have not been online for a while » 2025-06-30 06:44:57
For the MSE a registry patch is available to fix the update issue. Had it myself in a Win7 VM.
I am not using the FF on Win7. An idea since the two machines seem not to work the same: has one of them a proxy or something like that defined in the internet connections?
#88 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » LVM -- useful or not? » 2025-06-30 06:41:10
Since many many years I am using LVM in combination with luks encryption. One PW for decryption for several LVM volumes.
Yes, its overhead, but you do not see or feel a major delay on modern computers.
#89 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-18 12:45:36
... if I remember correctly, I've downloaded the .deb file as the driver, unpacked it, and placed the firmware folder on a USB flash drive.
I guess there is the mistake. AFAIK the installer looks for a deb file.
#90 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-16 13:49:20
I don't know if it's possible to install from net install without internet?
Sure it is. But you should specify the network and its details as if it was fully working.
BTW: most of the network drivers are part of the kernel.
#91 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-13 10:58:26
I would assume that such a brandnew computer has an UEFI only bios. No more CSM mode supported. So the legacy strategies to boot a stick do no more work.
#92 Re: Documentation » how to specify an hexadecimal offset to dd ? » 2025-06-09 20:00:20
man dd
#93 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Non-root-users cannot ping in devuan5-based lxc-container » 2025-05-31 16:11:19
The kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 is definitely not from Daedalus. Daedalus uses linux-image-6.1.0* or 6.12 from backports.
#94 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Proposed Updates repository problem. » 2025-05-29 15:56:42
Further reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
Add stable proposed-updates (default: no)
proposed-updates are packages that will become part of the next stable point release but are not fully tested yet. It is usually safe to use them, but we recommend not using them on production systems. Note that there may be rare cases where a package from Debian's proposed-updates is needed, and in that case /merged should be used instead of /devuan below.
# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan <release codename>-proposed-updates main#95 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Proposed Updates repository problem. » 2025-05-29 15:30:39
If you try again?
#96 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-05-28 18:00:22
Fighting about minimalism is hairsplitting. The OP obviously wants to setup a system according to his wishes and considerations without all that stuff that is pulled in by the task*-Packages. I use this approach myself which is some sort of minimalism in the wider sense. Install a cli from the netinstall, and then install the DE I prefer currently which is Cinnamon, and the packages I need. I could help doing this, also with Mate. Not with other DE's, no experience.
Daedalus doesn't boot from Ventoy, so a bootable separate stick is required.
#97 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] The 'snap' package in Devuan belongs to biology » 2025-05-23 17:29:11
I am looking for a way to use Whatsapp without any smartphone whatsoever - and I hoped, this could be possible.
I am pretty sure that that isn't possible. I have tried it with Telegram, no way, it requires a smartphone application and phone number to connect to on Linux. You can use the Linux program once you have linked it with a smartphone. Its the same with Signal.
And I think its the same for Whatsapp. The linking to the smartphone is required from state authorities to be able to track users.
#98 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] USB with *.iso image not detected in BIOS boot netbook » 2025-05-13 15:38:01
Somewhere else I stumbled across this topic: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_legacy_limit.html. Somebody else had a problem and solved it by using a 32G stick.
Looks like on older PCs in legacy mode this limitation comes into play. I have a 128G stick for Ventoy, and that works in my environment.
#99 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Trashed USB firmware » 2025-05-12 15:16:13
First of all I would look into the Bios and check the USB settings. And then possibly try "Load optimized defaults".
#100 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] MBR and efi booting issue » 2025-05-09 15:23:11
I am thinking that instead of trying and forcing the legacy BIOS and MBR thing, I just may try and use the intended UEFI install without the secure boot option and see how that goes.
Good approach. Learn it now. In the long run efi is the future.
And I must say I like GPT partitioning. No more fiddling with extended partitions and logical drives.
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