And as I am not involved in the "systemd-war" I will also make some links to other distry like Bodhi, Q4OS, Lununtu. Anyway they are running a bit slowlyer then the systemd free ones. And there are some more small ones, Void...etc.
Today I thout, that I will now set up the website first to see, what information I really need. I will also have to show, how to find out what hardware one have (64/32 bit, Ram size, disk size). Not every user will know where to find it on a windows OS. Then it needs something about download the ISO and move it on USB stick or a CD. Then about making a swapfile and set the swapiness. Change the browser and make the settings. Configurate the desktop, move away the icons that you don't need and so on. Yes, a lot of details. But I will have to make a line and just give the important information in order the installation is running stable and "fast". The rest they will find then, after a while on the forums.
I will call it : "LinuxChico" or just "LinuC". Chico is spanish and means small, but also boy.
And then I will have to find some people that would like to take it over an go on with it, because I have 53. The vision is, that LinuC will have a network of helpers in all the world, that even going to visit a user and help him to set the Distry up. There are so many people >60 that could do this!
]]>E.g., set up a special USB stick that holds that program and has space to hold the succession of snapshots. Then, at the very first dialogue you shift over to VT2 to mount that USB and start the regular repeated snapshotting (example below), and then you shift back to VT1 and continue. Making a snapshot every 5 seconds gather 12 snapshots a minute, each being (I think) ${number of pixels}x4 bytes in size, typically < 1Mb each. I.e. 1 Gb space handles about an hour of 5-second snapshots.
while sleep 5 ; do fbcat /dev/fb0 > snap-$(date +%s) ; done
Note that this would be for screenshotting the linux frame buffer. The "graphical mode" installers run tthisheir X servers which hold their screen images in memory (without using the linux frame buffer(s)), so screenshotting them is slightly different.
]]>And then I have to figure out how to take screenshots during the installation. The simplest is probably an iPhone, but I don't have one
Debian-installer in graphical mode gives you the option to take screenshots during the installation.
]]>Thank you
devuan@devuan:~$ file /sbin/init
/sbin/init: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=cee8c52c8342bc4baa56587c88766076226f9aaa, stripped
devuan@devuan:~$
So not? Oh yes: version 1 (SYSV) !
Yes, PEBCAK is mostly my problem . Not just mine, but that of millions of computer users as well. I'm learning about 4 distributions for old hardware: Devuan, antiX, TinyCore and soon also Fedora CoreOS. What for? Because I want to create a website with exact instructions for installation and configuration ... for users with PEBCAK! So I have to install and test all 4 distributions on my notebook so that I know all the problems that may arise. Once I have done it, I have to do it all a second time, with a Spanish installation, because I'm in Argentina! My Spanish is not very good so I need to understand exactly how everything works first or I won't find anything in the Spanish installation. And then I have to figure out how to take screenshots during the installation. The simplest is probably an iPhone, but I don't have one
]]>@dice
Yes, I can see this, but I don't know, if I use sysvinit . I not even know what it is!
I think I have the problem, that zram is not getting started on boot. If I understand the article right, then the script is just a option.
But ok, my Devuan works very well without zram, so for the moment is not priotity 1.
SysV-based init system is sysvinit just spelled in another way.
See what below command tells you, if you indeed have an SysV-based init system it will tell you.
file /sbin/init
The problem you are having is PEBCAK.
]]>Yes, I can see this, but I don't know, if I use sysvinit . I not even know what it is!
I think I have the problem, that zram is not getting started on boot. If I understand the article right, then the script is just a option.
But ok, my Devuan works very well without zram, so for the moment is not priotity 1.
]]>I come back to this older post.
I installed zram-tool and made the settings in /etc/default/zramswap. But it doesn't work yet, because zram is not created. I then tried to add it to autostart. But I don't know which command to enter, resp. where the executable script is. Or do I have to do something else?
I would also like the zram with lz4, if possible, or with an even better algorithm.
Is there any other method than zram-tool to get a zram from boot on Devuan?
That link says to copy the script kindly posted here https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam for systems using sysvinit to /etc/init.d/zram, are you using sysvinit?
You can clearly see that an edit can be made to /etc/default/zramswap to allow for a differnt algo.
]]>I installed zram-tool and made the settings in /etc/default/zramswap. But it doesn't work yet, because zram is not created. I then tried to add it to autostart. But I don't know which command to enter, resp. where the executable script is. Or do I have to do something else?
I would also like the zram with lz4, if possible, or with an even better algorithm.
Is there any other method than zram-tool to get a zram from boot on Devuan?
]]>zram is only available for beowolf and ceres:
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/beowul … 8.1-4.html
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/beowul … 2.1-1.html
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/ceres/ … 8.2-1.html
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/ceres/ … 2.1-1.html
See also https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam
Cheers,
A.
]]>sudo apt-get install zram-config
sudo apt-get install zram-tools
The commands above don't work. Open up Synaptic, type zram, you get nothing. Its not in the backports either. So my question is: How do you properly implement a zram swap?
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