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#2701 Re: Installation » Default size of the /boot partition » 2016-12-15 13:26:15
It is impossible to undo the setting up of the 2nd partition (usually /dev/sda2) as an encrypted partition. There's something amiss in the installer, it cannot properly let go of the encrypted partition. This means that in case I want to change the size of the /boot partition, I need to reboot (hopefully it's at the beginning of the installation process, so not much time wasted).
It's not clear to me what you're doing in the above. I don't use guided partitioning, but I thought it was not possible to change the settings that the partitioner uses. That's what manual partiioning is for. You should be able to make /boot and / partitions without encryption. I know I did it with the beta1, but I haven't tried it with the beta2.
250mb for /boot should be more than enough unless you're planning to do something unusual.
#2702 Re: DIY » browser security DIY » 2016-12-13 15:08:55
Sorry about that. I keep forgetting that yad is not in jessie.
This version works with jessie. (0.27.0-1)
http://debs.slavino.sk/pool/main/y/yad/ … _amd64.deb
http://debs.slavino.sk/pool/main/y/yad/ … 1_i386.deb
And in case those go away, I've got them here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … _packages/
#2703 Re: DIY » browser security DIY » 2016-12-12 22:20:29
Wow. I read the article. That's a lot to digest. I've been using firejail for a few months, but just with the default settings. I also tried it with firetools, a graphical front end, but I didn't like it. Couldn't figure out how to edit the menu to show just the apps I wanted to use. So I wrote my own front end.
firemenu is a bash script that uses yad for a graphical front end. It presents a list of applications that have firejail profiles, and you can filter the list to just show the apps you normally use.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac … nu-1.2.deb
https://github.com/fsmithred/firemenu
#2704 Re: Forum Feedback » no ones cleaning spam » 2016-12-11 12:52:51
@figosdev
I have evidence that the year of the linux desktop (if you can count netbooks) was 2008. That evidence is in the form of an advertisement for a EEE netbook. The ad featured a bright red balloon with the words, Runs on Linux, as the main selling point. Got a screenshot of that as soon as I saw it.
-fsr
#2705 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [MiyoLinux] New Releases Uploaded » 2016-12-10 19:49:56
Just wanted to quickly say that I did a test install this morning, and the Ext 2 file system is highlighted by default on MiyoLinux.
I see it, too. It's a gtk-3 issue. Yad-0.37 (from ascii) uses gtk-3. I guess it automatically highlights the first choice. I can reverse the order of fs types in the script.
#2706 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [MiyoLinux] New Releases Uploaded » 2016-12-09 16:27:15
2) Using the "expert" install with disabled "Use UUID (...)" and enabled "use existing swap (...)" and "write zeroes (...)" and "run cfdisk", it locked up here right after partitioning on the "Syncing disks" screen. This is 100% reproducible, and the only way out is closing the "cfdisk" window by clicking on its "X" top-right frame button. Installation seemed to resume OK from there, but I reset the machine and started it over just in case.
I'm the author of the installer script. (I don't think it was modified, but I could be wrong.)
It didn't lock up. It was waiting for you to close the cfdisk window. That's just the way the script is written. I should add a message somewhere that tells you to do that. (It's on the todo list now.)
3) The default filesystem to format the system partition was shown as ext2 (of course I chose ext4). Was that intended?
No. Normally, no filesystem is highlighted when the window comes up. At least that's how it is for me when I run it.
4) I have a swap partition but it doesn't show in the "Select a partition for swap" dialogue (in fact, this window doesn't show anything). I closed it (again, clicking on the X) and ran mkswap manually on a separate terminal window. It showed me a "you did not choose a swap partition" window, to whch I clicked "OK", and the installation seemed to proceed OK, (fortunately) instead of looping back to the "choose a partition for swap" dialogue.
EDIT: after the installation, I found out MIYO created and was using a "/swapfile" instead of the partition I created. I fixed it manually.
If you had a partition set aside for swap, but it still needed mkswap run on it, then it won't show up. The command the script uses to find existing swap partitions is
/sbin/blkid |grep swap | awk '{print "\n" $0 }'5) After selecting all the timezone/locale/keyboard options, the system seemed to lock up in a black window (only showing "refractainstaller-yad" on top), with no blinking dots, progress bar, nothing. I saw that it was not a real lock-up because (contrary to #2 above) the HD access LED was blinking... but at least a "Doing something, please wait...." message would probably help the newbies.
The next thing that runs after the pre-install scripts (timezone, etc.) is the cleanup function. Maybe it took some time to unmount something? Just a guess. If you feel like repeating the experiment, run 'refractainstaller-yad -d' and pastebin the error log (/var/log/refractainstaller_error.log) or email it to me if you prefer.
Thanks,
fsmithred
#2707 Re: Devuan Derivatives » exegnulinux » 2016-12-07 15:21:03
@dzz:
I announced a devuan-based refracta release on Oct. 30, 2015. Before that, there was a Refracta with xfce based on systemd-free debian jessie that you put together while I was stalling. Before that was a systemd-free debian-based refracta with openbox that would not have happened without your help. You were the trailblazer in those interesting times.
I don't know the timelines on the other devuan derivatives, but I am glad that we all exist, and I think it's good that we have this place to meet and compare notes.
#2708 Re: News & Announcements » Unofficial Devuan-Live Isos » 2016-12-05 23:48:26
The amd64 iso has been replaced. I screwed up. Thought I tested the iso before upload, but apparently I didn't, and it doesn't boot.
unofficial_live_devuan_beta_amd64_snapshot-20161203_0200.iso is the BAD ISO. If you downloaded this one, throw it away!
unofficial_live_devuan_beta_amd64_snapshot-20161205_2229.iso is the replacement. This one boots.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
fsmithred
#2709 Re: Other Issues » How upgrade to a new release-version » 2016-12-05 22:37:30
You're already there. If you're doing regular updates, the beta2 won't give you anything you don't already have. I don't know if there will be point releases after jessie is stable. I think the focus will be shifting to ascii when that happens. Stretch is already in freeze and will probably be stable before the flowers bloom in the northern hemisphere.
One thing the beta2 isos will give you that the beta1 didn't do was install from the media without a network connection. The beta1 isos only did netinstall. That's been fixed.
#2710 Re: Devuan Derivatives » exegnulinux » 2016-12-05 20:59:37
Correction:
http://exegnulinux.net
Good call. Must have been an oversight. I know exegnu has been mentioned on the dng mailing list.
The latest build I see is from April. Do you know where there are newer isos?
#2711 Installation » jessie-backports » 2016-12-05 12:21:55
- fsmithred
- Replies: 3
Someone posted in #devuan a couple hours ago that they ran into trouble with jessie-backports. This is the same problem I had a while ago. If you have jessie-backports enabled in your sources, and you run an update and upgrade, your system will get spammed with backports versions of everything possible. I reported this issue, and someone recently posted a possible fix - https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-pr … #note_8046
Until then, you can prevent this from happening by pinning backports to a lower priority. Put the following into /etc/apt/preferences.d/00backports
Package: *
Pin: release a=jessie-backports
Pin-Priority: 100This is a lot easier to prevent than it is to fix it. I don't recall exactly what I did to downgrade all the packages I got grom backports, but it may have involved uninstalling a bunch of stuff (including xorg) and then reinstalling. You can see what you have installed from backports with
dpkg -l | grep bpo#2712 Re: Installation » firmware? » 2016-12-05 01:59:03
wicd does not require systemd or libsystemd0.
#2713 Re: Installation » firmware? » 2016-12-04 20:53:01
If you installed without a mirror, then no mirror will be in sources.list. You would need to plug in your install media to add programs, or else you need to add some sources. Uncomment the lines for jessie-security and jessie-updates in /etc/apt/sources.list and add
deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie mainand then
apt-get updateThen you should be able to install from the repo.
To get a wired connection when you plug the ethernet cable in after you've booted, as root, run
dhclient eth0#2714 News & Announcements » Unofficial Devuan-Live Isos » 2016-12-03 21:07:47
- fsmithred
- Replies: 1
*** UPDATE: 2016-12-05
*** The amd64 iso has been replaced with one that boots. See reply post for details.
Unofficial Devuan-Live isos for i386 and amd64 are available. They've been available since May, but with the release of beta2, I've updated them and made some additions and corrections to the devuan themes. The full README is copied below.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac … vuan_live/
Please note that while these images were made with refractasnapshot, they are snapshots of pure Devuan. They are not the Refracta distribution. This is a live version of what you get (or what you're supposed to get) with an install from one of the official Devuan beta isos. Once the desktop, login and boot themes get packaged, an install from the official isos will look like this live version.
Important note: These live isos do not contain the familiar debian-installer. You can install with refractainstaller (details below) which is sufficient for most desktop/laptop situations. If you need lvm, raid, uefi or automatic partitioning, you'll need to install from one of the official isos.
note 2: There is no automatic wireless detection in these live isos. Wireless driver packages are included in the user's home directory, and you can install them manually. (more details below.)
- fsmithred
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UNOFFICIAL LIVE DEVUAN JESSIE BETA
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UPDATE: December 2, 2016
System was updated at the time of release of beta2. Software is up to date with the repository as of this writing.
For wireless drivers, see /home/devuan/wireless_drivers/00_README.wireless_packages.
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This live image was created in the following manner:
Installed Devuan-Jessie-1.0.0-beta with XFCE4 in VirtualBox.
Added missing Clearlooks-Phenix-purpy theme, gtk2-engines and gtk3-engines-xfce.
Added refractasnapshot-base, refractainstaller-base and their dependencies. (see below)
Created live isohybrid image with refractasnapshot.
Start-Date: 2016-05-04 18:34:47
Commandline: apt-get --no-install-recommends -f install
Install: live-boot:amd64 (4.0.2-1, automatic), squashfs-tools:amd64 (4.2+20130409-2, automatic), live-config:amd64 (4.0.4-1, automatic), mtools:amd64 (4.0.18-2, automatic), isolinux:amd64 (6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1, automatic), live-boot-initramfs-tools:amd64 (4.0.2-1, automatic), syslinux:amd64 (6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1, automatic), xorriso:amd64 (1.3.2-1.1, automatic), syslinux-common:amd64 (6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1, automatic), live-config-sysvinit:amd64 (4.0.4-1, automatic), rsync:amd64 (3.1.1-3, automatic), libisoburn1:amd64 (1.3.2-1.1, automatic)
End-Date: 2016-05-04 18:36:42
No other changes were made.* All software with the exception of refractasnapshot and refractainstaller came from the Devuan repository. No other software repositories are configured.
* Devuan themes for desktop, login screen and boot screen were added manually.
You can burn this iso to DVD or copy it to a usb thumb drive with the 'dd' command or 'cat' in exactly the same manner you would with other isohybrid images.
To install to hard drive, run 'refractainstaller' from a root terminal.
You do not need a network connection during the installation.
You will be asked a few questions, and then the running live system will be copied to the selected partition(s). Any configuration changes you made during the live session will be copied to the installation. There may be some excpetions to this, as certain system files are excluded from the copy.
See /usr/lib/refractainstaller/installer_exclude.list and /etc/refractainstaller.conf for details and additional options.
Once installed, you can create your own live-CD copy of your system, with your software and configuration changes by running 'refractasnapshot' from a root terminal.
See /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list and /etc/refractasnapshot.conf for configuration options.
- fsmithred May 6, 2016
#2715 Re: Installation » firmware? » 2016-12-03 03:51:29
I ran into this today installing from the DVD image and tried to work around it with
cp /cdrom/firmware/* /target/lib/firmware/
chroot /target
dpkg -i /lib/firmware/firmware-realtek*.debthen tried to get the installer to see the wireless interface. It wouldn't do it, so I just finished the install.
On reboot, I found that I needed to install wicd, so I plugged in a wire, added wicd, and the wireless interface is working.
#2716 Re: Devuan Derivatives » List of Devuan derivatives » 2016-12-01 23:13:21
To get expert install in gnuinos, select Install, hit TAB and add priority=low to the boot command. Then ENTER. (Looks like it works ok, I aborted early.)
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