Hello:

That didn't show anything

Good to know.
Thanks for the heads up.  8^)

I can now continue with the housekeeping.

Best,

A.

Hello:

You're welcome.

Quite so.

But check the installed version anyhow.
You may already have the latest one available for that board.

I don't like it either.

The usual lack of properly written BIOSs aside, gigabyte is a reputed brand and their hardware can be considered trustworthy.
They may also have BIOS recovery tools in case something goes wrong.
Unless the board is very old, it is quite straightforward to flash a BIOS.

You may have seen that I run a Sun MS U24 workstation, very expensive when it hit the market in 2007.
My present full monty configuration would have cost me well over $4.000 at the time.
Obviously, I got my box second hand.

Well ...
The BIOS on this box was a real POS from day one.

As it is not a laptop, does not need to run on solar panels or be up 24/7, I have disabled all the power management settings I could disable.
Processor throttling is taken care of by cpuidle but the rest is off or disabled.
Curiously enough, attempting to disable S states in BIOS put the box in an unusable state, requiring a BIOS wipe and reflash. (!)

In any case, you may want to consider if having any S states enabled (ie: standby/sleep/hibernate) is really necessary for you.

Best,

A.

Hello:

This is where it all starts.
It's a sign of Things To Come©.    ---> 8^/

A.

Hello:

Well ...
The Linux kernel has quite a few things enabled by default which (imho) are not needed, save in a server setup.
eg: apparmor, etc.

Nonsense ...
You were skilled enough to write a script to make it work, the first time around.  8^D

That's certainly not my case.
I would not have been able to use a package installed from the Devuan repository due to its (apparently) missing a vital part.

So ...
Does it make sense that it be in the repository if it is (apparently) incomplete?

Then it is a very good thing that you discovered this, wrote and shared the necessary script.
Like I said earlier, maybe it is a slip-up on behalf of the packagers.

Best,

A.

Hello:

I monitor disk space like this:

 DISKS
 ${hr 2}
 / $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /}%
 ${fs_bar /}
 /home $alignc ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /home}%
 ${fs_bar /home}
 /media/backups $alignc ${fs_used /media/backups} / ${fs_size /media/backups} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /media/backups}%
 ${fs_bar /media/backups}
 /var/log $alignc ${fs_used /var/log} / ${fs_size /var/log} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /var/log}%
 ${fs_bar /var/log}

Not my doing but cannot recall the source.
Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Did you check out the thread I suggested?  ->  https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3820

See post #23, it has a step by step rendition of how I followed Hevy Devy's instructions and solved my problem.

Don't skip any steps.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Hmm ...
No idea.
Not my dog.
Sadly, I haven't had a dog since I was 16.

I don't have a Live iso, hence I have no link to anything you can download.

Makes sense ...
I don't have a forum.
Never had one.

Hmm ...

Ask the author?
Or carefully read what he posted here --> https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop … c#p1040932

ie:

It's quite all right.
Every one has a bad day at some time or another.
I have one every week.
Usually on tuesdays, occasionally fridays.

Sorry to dissapoint you.
I don't have any flavours of Devuan.
Just the plain Devuan Beowulf I got here.

But my all time favourite ice cream flavour is bitter chocolate with dark chocolate chips mixed in.
Yes, redundancy is a real thing for me.

Cheers,   8^P

A.

Hello:

Indeed ...

The problem was that this hardware (my opinion) was not really something solid like all the SCSI tape drives out there at the time.
The advantage was that it was much less expensive to get a QIC/Travan etc. and run it from a parallel port or IDE adaptor card.
But for most, not the real thing.

In my day, I had a QIC and a Travan under Windows but found them to be slow and unreliable.

Here's a link to old Ubuntu releases:

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

Try Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) or Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS (Dapper Drake), both have 64bit DVD Live editions:

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases … -amd64.iso
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases … -amd64.iso

Quite so.

With relatively inexpensive fast HDDs to make a multiple Tb NAS with very little investment, tape ends up being cumbersome.
And no, I will not store anything in any cloud.

A cloud is just water vapour: one moment it's there, the next it's gone.

I had my last DAT DD2 drive sitting atop my box for the longest while and finally decided to move it out of the way last week.
A beautiful Sun Microsystems external box hosting a Seagate Scorpion 8000 which saw very little use.
Maybe the box, PS and SCSI board will be of use for something.

Ahh ...
So that's it.  8^D !

You'll still need the application used to make the tape or download it raw and pick out the bits.

Once you find out what you can do by booting the Ubuntu DVD, you may want to make a VM see if you can access it from there.
Much better than trying anything with the 486.

Cheers,

A.

Hello:

Evidently that's not the vision of those who are in a position to run the Debian show and decide the hows, why's and whens.

I'm glad to see we're more than one.

But I'm afraid the dice have already been rolled.
And the result was not in our favour.

Hence the very existence of Devuan.

Best,

A.

Hello:

You were quite right, I stand corrected.

In spite of what wiki.archlinux says, adding security=none disables tomoyo as there are no entries for it in dmesg, kern.log or syslog.

Edit: security=none not only disables tomoyo, it also makes apparmor=0 unneccesary. 8^D

Thanks for the heads up.  8^)
Best,

A.