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#201 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » how to easily copy a windows partition? » 2023-04-11 18:05:35

Just thinking about the error messages - not a solution, to many assuptions! And probably unreadeable anyway.

tl;dr: Summery of the text below is: The last 5MB were (might) not written back to /dev/sdb1.

dd error:

Sizes of partition and disk-image:
The partition size of /dev/sdb1 by fdisk output: 204810240 Sectors * 512 Byte/Sector = 104862842880 Byte
The partition size of /dev/sdb1 divided in blocks of 10M is "10000.5" (echo 204810240*512/1024/1024/10 | bc -l). Block count in dd is not supposed to be a fractional number!
Assumed behavior of dd during image creation: It read 10001 whole blocks. EDIT: WRONG at this point - the rest are follow-up errors!
Resulting image-file size then is: 10001 * 10M = 104868085760 byte (or 5MB bigger than /dev/sdb1). Please confirm or report the actual size of HP.qcow2.
This would cause the error when restoring.

dd parameters can be tuned to restore without an error:
(half block size and doubled block count result in integer numbers and the size of /dev/sdb1)

dd if=/media/erdos/easystore/Backup/HP.qcow2 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=5M count=20001  status=progress

Unclear behaviour of dd in case of fractional blocks:
dd error: "10000+0 records out" may mean the last "half" block is not written at all (5MB less than size of /dev/sdb1)
dd error: "104862842880 bytes (105 GB, 98 GiB) copied" which is the size of /dev/sdb1.

On my system, I would try re-write only the last 5MB of the partition:
This would be fast compared to rewriting the whole 100GB. But I'm not 100% sure about the offset!

dd if=/media/erdos/easystore/Backup/HP.qcow2 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=5M seek=20000 skip=20000 count=1

PS: Warning
All numbers may be wrong.
Don't do anything of the above you don't understand.
Mistakes incorporating dd can be very very harmful.

#202 Re: Off-topic » Error in VirtualBox, hoping for help » 2023-04-03 18:53:41

Did you use the appropriate "virtualbox-guest-additions-iso"?
It contains some graphic drivers for the guest-OS (and other stuff). Not sure whether this will cure "crappy graphics".

#203 Re: Off-topic » How to exclude words in DDG etc. searches » 2023-04-02 12:51:35

@zapper
Just curious: What happend in January 2021? Can't remember anything special by now.

#204 Re: Off-topic » AI on mainstream media » 2023-04-02 12:43:18

Then ... What is the business model behind that campagne?

#205 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » how to easily copy a windows partition? » 2023-04-02 12:12:50

'partition' and 'drive' seem a bit mixed-up. To see what you have:

 $ lsblk

#206 Re: Off-topic » How to exclude words in DDG etc. searches » 2023-03-27 22:36:56

You got me completely wrong! I'll try again.

The main point is: Would you pay for having more search options?

API access means you can use (in this case) the google seach engine directly in your own program or web side. This allows more search parameters and costs real money. No idea how much they are asking for, nor how much I would want to pay for that. Yandex, Bing and others are offering the same services. This has nothing to with profiling or using their web side directly.

On youtube, they doubled the amount of ads, along with the offer to have it ad-free for 10 bugs a month. Same technique may apply for the search.

Beeing naked in front of google and hoping they will deliver better results then is not an option for me. Google has become as evil as its compeditors. At least they delverd some useful and working software (the revolutionary search in the early 2000, maps, earth, and more I forgot).

#207 Re: Off-topic » How to exclude words in DDG etc. searches » 2023-03-27 17:36:54

What if you use (buy) an API key for google custom search?
Could be a way to have more search options.
Or is it the same search, just the results are submitted differently?  EDIT: This is most likely wrong.

#208 Re: Off-topic » How to exclude words in DDG etc. searches » 2023-03-26 21:54:29

Advanced search is canceled everywhere. It's a shame.

#209 Re: Off-topic » Voce fala portugues? » 2023-03-20 15:49:03

Not sure what is usable in your case.
Maybe remapping the whole num-block to portugues characters? This transforms the 105-keyboard to 88-key with special characters.
Or what about using an onscreen keyboard additionally?

#210 Re: Freedom Hacks » Is it safe to encrypt only the home directory? » 2023-03-06 17:09:29

The architecture of an Knoppix-stick (or iso) is quite interesting in that regard. 
The root file system is on a compressed ISO image - 4.5GB for the DVD-image - read only file system is the point.
If thee is space on the USB-stick, it is possible to have a home directory for files and optionally the overlay-fs can be stored (default is in the RAM until reboot). So can have security updates or even install additional programs.

So: You could combine a read-only-root-fs without encryption with an encrypted overlay-fs for system updates.

(Overlay: Ralph posted yesterday about an overlay file system here https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=41386#p41386  Awesome! I was totally unaware of that and am still flashed).

#211 Re: Devuan Derivatives » An example of how Trinity Desktop Env (TDE) can look on Devuan ASCII » 2023-02-28 16:47:41

Nice background image.

Can't say I'm using TDE, but really really appreciate the return of kpackage with it.

#212 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Help requested with WINE setup and/or Chromium Cache Searching » 2023-02-25 10:40:28

rolfie wrote:

As far as I remember when I installed wine a while ago, when you just specify # apt install wine you just get wine64, the additional architecture does not matter. i386 is pre-requisite to do an # apt install wine32.

Interesting, you archived what I wanted at the time, but could not get.

Sorry, I did not ment to spread confuision.

EDIT:
Tested on Chimaera, it depends on 'recommended install'.

# apt install wine --no-install-recommends

does not install wine32, while

# apt install wine --install-recommends
# apt install wine64 --install-recommends

does, if i386 architecture is added.

#213 Re: Installation » GRUB Grief » 2023-02-25 10:08:30

Juggle333 wrote:

Choosing to start the new HDD from the BIOS boot menu produces a "Welcome to GRUB!" message and a "grub_rescue" prompt - at which point I'm stuck.

I suspect that I need to find a way of either unlocking my existing encrypted disk first, to allow the GRUB installer to see it, or editing GRUB settings to recognise encrypted disks?

This should have worked.
The boot selection method via BIOS-boot-menue is independant from any installation on other HDD's, therefore no need to edit foreign grub configurations.

I probably would temporarily disconnect the Ubuntu-disk (physically), and then try to boot / chroot / rescue / reinstall.

PS:
(((the OP knows, but just to name it - the BIOS-boot-menue: Power-on the PC, it beeps, press once [F12_in_my_case] and the HDD selection appears.)))

#214 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Help requested with WINE setup and/or Chromium Cache Searching » 2023-02-24 18:26:13

As far as I remember

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt install wine 

installed both, wine64 and wine32.
Indeet, it was impossible to get only wine64 without wine32 (trying to get away without i386-architecture).

EDIT: caution! My memory seems to trick me!
EDIT2: the above is true with apt's defaults or namely # apt install wine --install-recommends

#215 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Stupid two screen question (screens before login) » 2023-02-23 18:34:51

Get black screens after grub too.
Newer Intel graphics (11-something?) seem a bit "picky" in what they display and what not. One feature is to not support BIOS boot anymore (black screen on non-efi-boot). As far as I remember, temporary using an exiisting PCIe graphics card showed boot messages.

Another thing is, when switching to a text-console, both screens showin the same content. No idea, whether this is as it should be.

#216 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Daedalus issues with wifi connection » 2023-02-23 18:04:16

Did you try to copy the URL form the network-portal-login-page visible in Chimaera's Firefox and re-use it in Daedalus?

#217 Re: Installation » Got sound in Firefox with only alsa and JACK! » 2023-02-20 18:29:17

swanson wrote:

Downloading Librewolf as we speak....

( https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/ )

For sound with alsa you probably need the "AppImage" - not the version form the debian repository.
Not sure why this is, but it was the case some months ago and did not re-check since then.

#218 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Bookworm's "which" pogram » 2023-02-13 19:53:05

Thanks for the input, guys.

Probably it's not as bad as I thought in the first place. De-deprecation seems somewhat likely and gnu-which was included.
Still don't like it when "they" mess around with the basic tool set.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I think the NewInBookworm page just hasn't been updated

Best solution (EDIT:), but bad public relation.

#219 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Bookworm's "which" pogram » 2023-02-08 22:59:27

delgado
Replies: 13

New in the upcoming debian release https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBookworm

* The which program has been deprecated, and writes a warning to standard error (but still works, so long as stderr is not being captured along with stdout).

For f*** sake why? Completely unnecessary.
Will this make it to daedalus?

Probably a reminder to pin a current version before the release date to avoid stupid error messages.
gnu-which, which.debianutils ... are there more?

#220 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] nvidia Error during boot » 2023-02-04 20:45:08

The (1st) error message does nothing on my system, the module is clearly loaded.

$ lsmod | grep nvi

No idea about the following 3 lines. What exactly is the problem?

How was the nouveau kernel driver working on your system? Do you really need the proprietary nvidia driver? Uninstall nvidia can be a solution.

#221 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Fixing broken Brother DCP-L3510CDW Printer Installation (howto) » 2023-02-04 20:00:31

alexkemp wrote:

HP printed it perfectly & the damned Brother will not!

Of course I do not know the print outs, just want to remind on technical limits.
A current inc-jet printer can produce photo alike results. A laser printer is good for something with sharp edges like text or lines, gradients are ... difficult / not looking good. The colours itself are non-natural and loud.

At my work is a Brother network laser printer. No installation at all - appeared in cups (no idea how, it's a shame) and is simply working.
A bit colour tweaking might be nice.

#222 Re: Devuan » Devuan LXQt Themes » 2023-02-01 12:50:57

Looks great, thanks.
Would the theme function with my LXDE too?
golinux in https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=40747#p40747 made me think this might be possible.

#223 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dying machine? » 2023-02-01 12:38:10

steve_v wrote:

As for isolating a hardware fault, the obvious answer would be to try to reproduce the problem in as minimal a configuration as you can. Remove expansion cards and extraneous peripherals, swap or replace PSU, memory modules, that kind of thing.

I would like to add:
A bad contact may/can be cured by pulling the connectors off and on again.
Unpluging and plug in again any reacheable cable (and card) may fix the problem. If you don't know exactly what you are doing, just be careful with electrostatic charges, don't use too much force on connectors; it's a bit like Lego, use your brain, unplug main power of course; everything should be straight and fitting, otherwise it is incorect.
(I still think the parrot is probably dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo , but) It's worth a try, if you feel comfortable doing so.

#224 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dying machine? » 2023-01-31 23:19:36

Assuming it Is it the same machine from the "Block device detection" thread  https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5508: The answer is probably yes.

Randomly changing block device names are not good, there should be a reason. One possible is defective hardware (I remember a dying machine, which started printing "updating dmi data pool ... success" on almost every boot)

#225 Re: Freedom Hacks » Tinfoil Tuxery - Packages_of_interest » 2023-01-29 10:42:21

fsmithred wrote:
apt rdepends zeitgeist

will show packages that depend on zeitgeist. I don't know an easy way to get Recommends or Suggests.

The list is quite enlarged when using addional wildcards (incl Suggests, Reverse Depends, etc). Just typed it, becasue the original list was to small.

apt rdepends *zeitgeist*

Edit: Typo (hm .. no spell checker when using this computer. There might be more)

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