The "-y" option is handy too.

I dislike "autoselecting". But I can select the non-HDMI output with ALSA configuring it. There are a lot of info about that.

It seems so:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=19495#p19495

I dont need VMWare since a lot time. In 2005 I had to buy a license because I did not find an alternative. Not needed anymore. YMMV.

I'm sorry. It seems to me that your install is kind of broken. Of course you can reinstall (I did it a couple of times years ago), no problem. But most likely it can be fixed.

The file /etc/apt/sources.list should be owned by root. Once that is fixed, you can try the commands that gdebi-gtk suggests.

I think that you are taking about the file virtualbox-6.1_6.1.16-140961~Debian~buster_amd64.deb. It should work on your Beowulf box. I have installed VB from deb archive a lot of times (not on Beowulf): it works, but you need to compile a few kernel modules afterward (there is an assistant for this). If the tildes on the name are a problem, just rename the file after download it again.

Also, you can find in this very forum options to VB. A lot of people here dislike VB and explain alternatives that can work for you.

Thank you. These are very good news. Very long term support can be very useful to people running old systems. Sure they have security concerns, but any sysadmin should know the risks. My point is that beeing able to apt install more packages in an old box is very convinient.

This is a very personal taste and a lot of people here are going to customize their environment. But we need a default. This one proposed pleased me very (VERY!) much.

Please note that your Debian Wheezy is using gphoto2 to access to the camera. May be you are missing some package related with gphoto2 in your new box.

Quite sure Keep sending us information.

I downloaded the manual from Sony:
https://www.sony.com/electronics/suppor … 14571M.pdf

I can read on page 27 that the camera has around 27 MB of internal memory.

Could work for you just read the files from the sd-card? (As a workaround).

I use myself a mix of the two approaches: a lot of secuential scripts for installing and configuring some pieces and unpacking tar files for some other configurations. I use the second tecnique for some graphical environments that I know of fully configure only throughout a GUI (KDE mainly).

I configure the first user of the box and then modify the scripts to add new users using /etc/skel. See man adduser

I don't know if my experience is convenient to do in your case, but I will explain it:

In a few boxes with Devuan Beowulf 64 bits I used a --force-all to install a deb file for an old printer. All the package management programs complained from this point on about not met dependencies. I edited by hand the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and removed the claimed dependencies. So far, so good.

In all your systems? Wow