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#551 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan Raid 1 Install Steps » 2022-11-14 09:38:55
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera/installer-iso/
Use the netinstall iso unless you must install without using a network mirror. In that case, use the DVD.
#552 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan Raid 1 Install Steps » 2022-11-14 00:19:58
The next step is to read the section "Install to RAID1" here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2323 and decide whether you really want to do it manually with mdadm and refractainstaller or if you would rather use an installer than knows how to set up a RAID without you having to run all the commands yourself. If you choose the latter, you will need to download one of the installer isos and re-image your usb stick.
Note: If I were going to do it manually with mdadm and refractainstaller, I would need to read those instructions I linked. Be aware that I'm the one who wrote those instructions and I'm the one who wrote refractainstaller, and I would still need to re-read the instructions.
#553 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan Raid 1 Install Steps » 2022-11-13 22:46:12
Use fat32 for the EFI partition and give it the esp flag. (That will auto-check the boot flag, too.)
#554 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan Raid 1 Install Steps » 2022-11-13 20:19:12
"There is no disk with a gpt partition table. You should exit this script and run gdisk to create one for uefi boot. There is no EFI partition. You will need to create one or else install the system without a bootloader."
I recognize that wording. You're using the live installer (refractainstaller) which does not support RAID. But it is possible to use the cli installer with a RAID1 that you created manually. See the first section of this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11437#p11437
If you use one of the installer isos instead of a live iso, you'll get the debian/devuan installer which does support RAID installs. That process will be the way Ralph described it, and the installer will look more like the pictures in the install guide that you linked way back at the beginning of this thread.
The error message you got from the live installer is to let you know that you booted in uefi mode but your disk doesn't have a gpt partition table. You could re-partition the disk or you could switch to legacy bios boot and keep the mbr partition table. The installer isos will most likely figure out the right thing to do. The live installer expects you to tell it what to do.
#555 Re: Other Issues » Refracta-snapshot no medium containing live file system » 2022-11-06 18:34:39
I'm not seeing an obvious error there. Sorry. The only other idea I have right now is that somewhere between bios and grub and kernel there's confusion about the order of disks. And I'm not sure what to do to about that other than messing with the disk order in the bios.
Google says some other things to try are:
- use usb2 port instead of usb3 (or a usb2 hub if you don't have a usb2 port)
- try a different usb stick
- set bios to use AHCI instead of IDE (or RAID)
#556 Re: Other Issues » Refracta-snapshot no medium containing live file system » 2022-11-05 11:11:29
Hm, I thought I already said this, but I don't see it now -
Be sure to dd the iso to the whole device, and not to a partition, for example:
dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/sdb (not of=/dev/sdb1)If you run the cli version of refractasnapshot (as you did) you can add the '-d' option to get a more verbose error log.
refractasnapshot -d#557 Re: Other Issues » Refracta-snapshot no medium containing live file system » 2022-11-04 15:22:12
I'd like to see the error log. Either paste.debian.net or send it to me at gmail.
Other things to try: see if the usb boots on another computer, see if it works better with a different usb stick.
#558 Re: Other Issues » Refracta-snapshot no medium containing live file system » 2022-11-02 22:27:13
First thing I would do is check to make sure filesystem.squashfs was created. Mount the usb in a running system and look to make sure /live/filesystem.squashfs is on the usb. Mount the iso file and look for the same. Look in $work_dir/iso/live/ for the same.
Is this legacy bios boot or uefi boot?
#559 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Slim not showing on my main screen, laptop's own screen is broken » 2022-10-29 00:38:46
If you go into the display setting, you should be able to set the external monitor to be the primary.
#560 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Install Exe GNU/Linux. » 2022-10-26 13:41:08
ExeGNU uses refractainstaller. (David Hare was a co-author.) By default, the installer formats the partitions you select. You can disable this in the options menu of the graphical installer or in the config file if you are using the cli installer. The option will affect all selected partitions. Installing a bootloader or not will not change this.
If you want to re-use an existing /home partition, you should not select it during the install. Just install to the root partition and edit fstab afterward to mount the old home partition to /home.
#561 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Chimaera install, encrypted root » 2022-10-25 22:10:51
I got back sooner than I expected. At some point when I have more time, I might want to look closer at what you did to see how you got secure boot to work.
To avoid entering the password twice, you have to create a keyfile. On my system with unencrypted /boot and separate root and home partitions that are encrypted (without lvm) I have a keyfile in the root partition to open the home partition.
With encrypted /boot, you have to put the key inside the initramfs.
On this page, scroll down to "Add keyfile to avoid extra passphrase prompt"
Most of what is above that section was already done for you by the live installer. You might need to modify the instructions because the author was also using lvm.
Edit: Oops! "this page" was supposed to refer to
this page --> https://www.dwarmstrong.org/fde-debian/
But the one OP found looks as good or better.
#562 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] libc6 bug fix has not reached chimaera-proposed-updates » 2022-10-22 17:47:38
You have:
Package: *
Pin: release o=Devuan, n=chimaera-proposed-updates
Pin-Priority: 100I have:
Package: *
Pin: release a=chimaera-proposed-updates
Pin-Priority: 100Check to make sure n= works. I think I changed to a= because that was the only way it worked, but I could be wrong.
Also, using /merged and o=Devuan might mean you won't get proposed updates from Devuan unless you specify proposed-updates, but you will get them from Debian. I'm not sure. You might need to either switch /merged to /devuan or remove the o=Devuan.
Edit: I tested both ways. n=chimaera-proposed-updates is correct, and a=chimaera-proposed-updates does not change the priority.
#563 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] libc6 bug fix has not reached chimaera-proposed-updates » 2022-10-21 19:18:35
I think the instructions on the website were written before *-proposed-updates were merged with debian. When I added it to sources.list recently, I forgot about the advice to use /devuan and I made it /merged like all the others. It seems to be working, but there is a potential problem.
*-proposed-updates is a place to put updates that may need additional testing. I think maybe it should have a lower priority so those packages don't get installed automatically.
Edit: We will most likely continue doing it the same way as debian.
https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates
#564 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] libc6 bug fix has not reached chimaera-proposed-updates » 2022-10-20 20:31:42
Wow, that's weird and annoying. Try installing libc6=2.31-13+deb11u5 (with or without the -t...)
#565 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] libc6 bug fix has not reached chimaera-proposed-updates » 2022-10-20 12:41:50
I just did 'apt upgrade' and got the version from chimaera-proposed-updates. I'm actually surprised that I got it, because I thought that proposed-updates did not get installed automatically. In the past, I had to add '-t chimaera-proposed-updates' to the install command. 'apt policy' shows me that proposed-updates has a priority of 500 just like the rest of the repo.
Oh, maybe because you're running u3 and I've been running u4 so there's nothing in the chimaera main repo for me - just in proposed.
apt -t chimaera-proposed-updates install libc6should do it.
#566 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Refracta - HDD space required? » 2022-10-15 18:32:42
Also, I noticed that the forum link on the Refracta website appears to be dead. It should probably be replaced with this link.
Thanks. I removed three obsolete links. I keep forgetting about the ibiblio site because I mainly use the new website, refracta.org. I should probably replace a bunch of links to point to the new site.
#567 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-10-03 13:39:36
If you don't want to re-make the usb with dd or cat, you might get around the problem with some creative symlinking to /cdrom. I've done it in the past, but it's been a few years. Try linking the usb mountpoint or a relevant directory on the usb to /cdrom.
#568 Re: Installation » From Debian (testing) to Devuan » 2022-09-26 21:44:46
And in a predictable future?
Debian will work out all the bugs and everything will be fine. Just like always.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. Any other answer would have turned NSFW.)
#569 Re: Installation » (jessie to beowulf) no network icon / panel / no network setitngs » 2022-09-25 15:12:21
I don't know why you're having problems removing wicd. Maybe try removing all the parts instead of just the metapackage.
I do know that you should only have one of those network gui programs installed. If you want to use connman, then remove all of wicd and all of network-manager. You'll have to make your own entry for connman in the startup program list. Tie it to connman-ui-gtk or connman-gtk-ui (whichever is the correct command.)
#570 Re: Installation » (jessie to beowulf) no network icon / panel / no network setitngs » 2022-09-23 21:19:52
You have replaced wicd with network-manager. You should probably make sure that all the wicd packages have been removed. I'm assuming that network-manager-gnome works properly in ascii. I don't recall if there are problems with that or not or if we forked that package. I know it works in beowulf and chimaera.
From the Applications menu, go to
Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart
Check the box for Network. That will put the network-manager applet in the system tray.
If n-m does not work in ascii, there's connman which also supports vpn.
#571 Re: Installation » From Debian (testing) to Devuan » 2022-09-23 21:11:55
Yes, it's still possible to run without usrmerge in devuan. If you use one of our installer isos, you will be asked whether you want it or not. Default is not.
#572 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Anacron symlinked to "true", again. » 2022-09-14 11:51:58
Correction: I tested the things I fixed and they are fixed.
There's an extra closing parenthesis on line 957 of the refractainstaller-yad. It can be fatal.
Solution: If you use the graphical installer, don't select a swap partition. Let the installer make a swapfile instead. Otherwise, use the cli installer. Run sudo refractainstaller in a terminal.
I'm not going to make new isos immediately. I don't want to go through replacing the torrent again so soon.
I did rebuild the refractainstaller-gui package. 9.6.4 is coming down the line and will work with refractainstaller-base_9.6.3.
#573 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Zoom in Devuan » 2022-09-13 19:56:15
Last time I tried to install zoom in devuan, they (zoom) only had packages for stretch. Those should work on ascii, however both stretch and ascii have been retired.
Go to your zoom meeting in chromium. If you get an exo-open popup window, get rid of it. Ignore all pleas to install the zoom crap and scroll down the page until you see a link in microscopic text that says something like "Join the meeting using your web browser." and do that. It works just fine.
#574 News & Announcements » New torrent for chimaera, seeders needed. » 2022-09-11 15:40:02
- fsmithred
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There's a new torrent file for chimaera to include the updated live isos. All the installer isos are unchanged and still at 4.0.0. The four live isos are 4.0.2 and include a bugfix for the live installer.
Please seed. Thanks.
Here's the torrent file:
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera.torrent
There's a magnet link at the bottom of this page:
https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan
#575 Re: Other Issues » GRUB update lands at 'grub rescue>' prompt » 2022-09-11 10:27:12
The amd64 live isos have grub-efi-amd64 installed and the grub-pc deb package available inside the iso for bios boots. If the iso is booted in uefi mode, it installs grub-efi. If the iso is booted in bios mode, the installer will install grub-pc. If you boot in bios mode and chroot the installed system, you need to install the grub-pc package before running grub-install. It's in the root of the filesystem. So run dpkg -i /grub-pc*.deb before running grub-install.
If the iso is booted in bios mode and the disk has gpt partition table, the installer will warn you that you need a special partition for grub, at least 1mb with no filesystem and with flag bios_grub (in gparted) or ef03 (in gdisk).
Edit: Just after hitting Submit, I saw that the first message says this happened after an upgrade. Now I'm not sure if my answer if relevant.
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