libera/#devuan/ Wednesday, 2024-07-31

rrqyeah, no.. it doesn't handle custom extensions ... I have https://transfer.rrq.au/OmOYbrcRYM/enitool.lsp00:02
rrqusing newlisp00:02
rrquses ${EDITOR-nano} to fiddle with configuration blocks00:03
Guest73Hey, I have no idea why I don't get that netinstall screen00:04
Guest73https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/full-disk-encryption00:04
Guest73never getting that kind of install view00:04
Guest73am i installing wrong iso00:04
gnarfaceGuest73: not sure, but maybe try it in expert mode?00:06
gnarfaceor maybe you have to load an optional component at one of the earlier steps... someone around here knows though, stick around00:06
rrqdefault "Install" is fine for that too00:06
Guest73no my point is getting that kind of installation, I did xfce install but i need that blue and gray install to install openrc00:07
Guest73do you think expert mode will get me there00:07
rrqdefault "Install" is fine for that too00:07
fsmithredyou have an installed system?00:07
Guest73yep00:07
gnarfaceoh, you mean the ncurses mode as opposed to the graphical interface?00:07
fsmithredapt install openrc00:07
fsmithredI think00:07
gnarfacetext mode should also be an option at the boot menu...00:08
Guest73but i want to get minimal, no DE, openrc version00:08
Guest73i don't want xfce00:08
fsmithredDid you say which iso you're using?00:08
fsmithredoh, ok. minimal.00:08
Guest73but not like minimal iso where you install it like arch00:08
Guest73https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/full-disk-encryption00:09
Guest73just need to install like this00:09
rrqare you using devuan_daedalus_5.0.1_amd64_netinstall.iso ?00:09
fsmithredyou need an installer iso, but I can't see what you have. You'll have to tell us.00:09
Guest73i tried that, tried to boot to normal install, it says cd files are not there and it bringed to me console terminal where i can't even write anything, busybox if i remember00:10
gnarfaceGuest73: when it asks you what desktop you want to install, you're not actually required to choose any of them. that will get you a "minimal" install00:10
Guest73devuan_daedalus_5.0.1_amd64_netinstall.iso00:10
Guest73gnarface perfect, but i can't get to there00:10
Guest73if it gives me that setup, ill00:10
rrqare you trying to use ventoy ?00:10
Guest73ye00:10
fsmithredgood call, rrq00:11
Guest73it seems, i need to do dd way to get that usb ready00:12
Guest73what u think guys00:12
rrqthe installer needs to find the ISO as a device... so dd  that directly to a usb should work00:12
Guest73never thought ventoy would cause me problems00:13
Guest73ill try dd way00:13
Guest73thanks00:13
rrqit does have a ventoy load patch. but that doesn't always work; it depends on a particular ventoy setup00:13
rrqso safest is to dd it to a usb00:14
Guest73so net install will get me to that kind of install explained on wiki right?00:14
rrqshould00:14
rrqyou need to untick the DE options.. keep "standard utilities"00:15
rrqthen select openrc as init system00:15
Guest73should i chose00:16
Guest73devuan de00:16
Guest73or only standart utilities00:16
rrqonly standard, unless you want a graphical..which needs DE + something00:17
Guest73will i get00:17
Guest73x00:17
Guest73with standart utilities00:17
fsmithredno00:17
fsmithredwhat desktop do you want?00:18
Guest73ill use i3 window manager00:18
fsmithredso something like...00:18
fsmithredapt install xorg i300:18
fsmithredprobably a few more parts00:18
fsmithredxserver-xorg-video-all would be a good one to have00:20
fsmithredmaybe mesa-utils00:20
fsmithredyou want to use a display manager or just startx?00:20
Guest73startx will be okay00:21
Guest73i can install it np00:21
fsmithredare you new to debian/devuan?00:21
Guest73switching from artix00:22
Guest73to devuan00:22
rrq(to run startx as non-root will need seatd)00:22
fsmithredapt or apt-get --no-install-recommends install blah blahblah00:22
fsmithredyes, seatd and make sure you're in the video group. I ran into that today.00:23
fsmithredoh, I didn't finish my sentence above - exclude Recommends if you want a smaller system.00:24
fsmithred --simulate (or -s) to review what it will or won't install00:24
fsmithredI prefer using aptitude for that because I like the layout of the output.00:25
Guest73ok ill try00:26
Guest73thanks for helping guys00:26
fsmithredyw00:26
fsmithredyell if you need help and be patient. We're not always this fast.00:26
Guest73will come back ill tell how it went00:26
ballDoes Devuan use "Snaps"?05:36
rrqno05:37
Xenguy.oO( We're better than that ...)05:37
ballAh good. :-)05:46
fluffywolflol06:11
ballfluffywolf~06:13
ballI didn't realise you were in here. :-)06:13
ballAlmost finished downloading Daedalus.  Might try it on my laptop.06:14
Xenguyhehe06:20
ballI have to wait until the thing I'm currently running is finished and then I'll write the image to a USB flash drive.06:24
ball...and see if I can't boot from that.06:25
fluffywolfI've been in here since devuan 1...  lol06:27
ballfluffywolf: I couldn't guess how long ago that was.  As you know, I don't spend a lot of time in Linux.06:39
adhocno snaps? thank goodness for that!!06:42
adhochave folks upgraded from devuan3 to Daedalus recently ?06:43
* adhoc has about a dozne machines to upgrade06:43
adhocnot sure if i should yank the spinners and replace with SSDs, then reinstall a fresh.. ?06:44
balladhoc: Sounds like a good opportunity for the upgrade.06:46
adhocball: always06:48
adhocbut SSDs are in short supply at the moment locally.06:48
adhocsome of these spinners have over 20 years on them06:49
ballFirmly at the plughole end of the bathtub curve then.06:49
adhocand the big deskside machines were build in the mid 1990's06:49
adhocthey are all ultrawide scsi06:50
adhocnot unobtainium, but not available new06:50
balllvd or se?06:50
adhocso, thinking about replacing all the /home /opt and /srv volumes on these machines with nfs (or better)netowrk volumes on a brand new NAS06:51
adhocball: erm ... i assume se. its just 20MBit UW06:51
ballIf they're from the mid 1990s, how fast are the NICs?06:51
adhocinternal06:51
adhocquad 100megabit06:51
ballSCA or 68-pin?06:51
adhocpre-SCA06:52
balladhoc: Can you get gigabit NICs for them?06:52
adhocall my HP dL3xx machines are SCA, much later06:52
adhocball: probably06:52
adhocbut ihave switches with ethernet channel bonding, so 400mbit is enough06:52
adhoci can bond 2 x quad 100mb NICs, if that is not fast enough06:53
ballWould you rather consume four ports or buy one NIC? ;-)06:53
balls/buy/source/06:53
adhocwe are talking quad 450MHz cpu and a 4 and 8 GB of RAM in these older systems06:53
adhocball: i have a box of quad 100's06:53
ballPOWER or SPARC?06:53
adhocboth06:54
ball(or Alpha or MIPS)?06:54
adhocboth06:54
adhocand VAX06:54
ballÜnibus or Qbus? ;-)06:54
adhocgave all the PARISC stuff to a collector06:54
ballWhat happened to my U there?06:54
adhocQBUS mostly,06:55
adhoccan not remember what is in the VS3100 m.*06:55
adhocand 4000/90's06:55
onefang#devuan-offtopic bus.  ;-P06:55
adhocthe microVAX]['s are definitely QBUS06:55
adhocbut i gave up trying to run linux of them ....06:56
adhocso06:56
adhocback to devuan, NFS ...06:56
ballonefang: I should ask whether Devuan has been ported to all of them ;-)06:56
adhocall these machines can do NFS v2, some v306:56
adhocbut is there something better than NFS v3?06:56
adhocbecause I had no end of problems with it before06:56
adhocball: no, linux does not support some of these machines06:56
adhocand devuan has a fairly limited set of platform support06:57
adhocand i am not asking them to06:57
ballPerhaps Devuan can serve up some file space (or iSCSI blocks) to them though.06:57
adhocindeed, that is exactly the direction I am headed.06:58
adhoci used to use debian for that, well, since 1995 ish06:58
adhocwith bootp, modp, and other protocols for various architectures06:59
adhocanyhow, need to find a sane replacement for NFS06:59
adhoc(not samba)06:59
ball(probably not sshfs)07:00
adhoci keep looking at IPFS07:00
adhocbut sadly implementations are ... not there yet07:00
adhocBBL07:00
ball4015849472 bytes transferred in 641.880 secs (6256386 bytes/sec)07:31
ballI shall go away now.  Have a great morning and thanks for the help!07:34
balladhoc: Good luck with the museum.07:34
rustyaxeFinally got to the point i realized my old ass machines were costing more in electricity every year than a single modern computer would cost to buy..so now we have a little beelink ryzen7 box running the house heh08:41
adhocrustyaxe: next project, battery + mppt + solar panels ?08:47
adhocrustyaxe: they look like an intel nuc or macmini ?08:49
rustyaxeive got a ser4 running all the automation stuff; probably get a ser7 to move my radio stuff to later in the year current still need the 256gb of ram situation n can only fit 64gb in one of those minipc without selling body parts08:51
adhoc19 volt psu ?08:52
adhocand these are x86-64 and run linux/devuan ?08:52
rustyaxeim running proxmox on mine, there's some devuan vm's on there; home assistant os, etc08:53
adhocQSL08:53
adhocthus the memory requirements.08:54
rustyaxewell radio stuff the ram requirement is because im dealing with 150mhz of capture width :o08:54
rustyaxeUsually 20-30 decoders running at a time08:55
adhocwhich SDR you using ?08:56
rustyaxeusrp x30008:56
adhocand libraries are all in devuan ?08:56
rustyaxeyea, tho i recommend following /testing if you play with that kinda stuff08:56
adhocQSL08:57
adhocyou have a CW decoder running ?08:57
rustyaxedigi modes; psk31, ft8, ft4, and aprs/bell.202 so far08:59
adhocrustyaxe: have you written any of this up i can read some where?09:00
rustyaxenot really, mostly just cobble up stuff with gnuradio as it goes. but there's quite a bit of hardware involved. First step is getting a broke 10k$ SDR and fixing it :o09:02
adhocunderstood. usrp's seem hard to get a hold of now days ?09:11
adhocwe need a devuan-ham channel ;)09:12
fsmithredSome people recently tried or did install excalibur to get a newer kernel. I just made a daedalus live-iso with backports kernel (6.9.7) https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/refracta_12_bpo6.9.7_amd64-20240731_0049.iso13:48
fsmithredI started with a refracta-nox iso that has lots of extra utilities and added xorg, openbox, lxpanel and a few firmware packages and network-manager.13:49
fsmithredThe iso can be used to test a newer kernel, to install with refractainstaller or do a debootstrap install.13:50
fsmithredbbl14:29
joerg>><adhoc> we need a devuan-ham channel ;)<< #devuan-offtopic - see /topic ;-D Thanks!16:24
AlexLikeRocksoup!16:58
bgstack15so the silly wtmpdb change has finally affected me. Apparently I don't have the /home-deleting systemd-standalone-tmpfiles package installed, but I want /var/lib/wtmpdb/ to be created. Should I just do that one-time, or do you recommend using systemd-standalone-tmpfiles?17:51
AlexLikeRockhttp://paste.debian.net/1325002/19:43
dvbstso ive had this problem for a good few years now, and no matter who i asked, everyone told me they cant help, but you guys seem to know your stuff pretty well so ill ask here too20:49
dvbstso i have this drive encrypted with luks, and one time i wrote mbr to it by accident and overwrote the header20:49
dvbstand i didnt know that a header backup was a thing before i had this problem20:50
dvbstso i did some digging, and it was luks2, and the mbr overwrote the primary binary header and the 1st json area, all the other stuff should still be in tact20:52
dvbsthere is the thing https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/LUKS2-docs/blob/main/luks2_doc_wip.pdf20:52
dvbstand i have tried going there with hexedit and manually setting every bit there, but it didnt seem to work20:53
dvbsti dont know if im doing this right or no, also i didnt do that on the source drive, i dded it to a different one and tried my work on the different one, the original is untouched since the accident20:54
dvbstmy guess is that the salt in binary header 1 and binary header 2 are different, but keep in mind, i have absolutely no clue what im doing in the slightest20:56
dvbstand another thing, i have a friend who wants me to get him linux on his pc, and i think that devuan is the best choice since its the most reliable thing out there that doesnt require pretty much any manual configuration, and has pretty good automation too, and that automation doesnt fall apart when i do actually want to do some manual configuration, which is perfect for new users21:00
dvbstbecause i could get him void, but he would need to configure some stuff manually from time to time, and he will most likely fuck it up or i will have to do it, and i could get him ubuntu or something like this, but it will either fall apart completely on its own or fall apart completely when he changes 1 thing in configuration21:02
dvbstso i do not see any better option that devuan21:02
dvbstbut, what i use is runit, and the reason why i do is because openrc is slow, and (im ashamed to say it) i thought that sysvinit is an abandoned project because nobody ever talks about it on youtube21:04
dvbstso i went with runit and it works well so i thought its good (and its not bad), but ive just had problems with it (that avahi thing) and i wonder if things couldve been better if i used sysvinit, since most people on this chat use it21:06
dvbstso im wondering, should i just continue doing things my way and install devuan with runit on my friends laptop or should i go with sysvinit since that way he could get more help here if he needs it21:07
Xenguydvbst, I use sysv myself, and have not tried runit...21:09
dvbstyea thats what im talking about21:10
XenguyI think it's safe to say that sysv is the most commonly run init on Devuan, and is time tested and therefore the most conservative and safe choice for your friend.  Just an opinion : -)21:11
dvbstalso could someone give me a tldr of what backports are, how to use them and how do i check whats in there and what version?21:12
XenguyI don't use them much at all, but this looks like a decent primer:  https://backports.debian.org/21:30
dvbstokay epic, this will definitely be helpful21:33
fsmithrednobody talks about sysvinit because it's mature, it works, and therefore there's nothing to talk about.23:10
masonHear, hear.23:14
bgstack15I'd agree, but then that's saying something.23:41
masonbgstack15: We're discussing the discussion or lack thereof, not the thing itself.23:42

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