tde-users September 2024

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Partitioning advice sought
by dep 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hi, everybody . . . The time has come to say goodbye to Ubuntu once and for all. The spyware, security updates being held hostage, and inescapable attachment to the proprietary snap packages were bad enough. The new version of ProtonVPN doesn't work on Ubuntu 20.04, the last marginally acceptable version. So Debian looms. I'm trying to make it easier by replacing the mess of hard drives with a single 16-tb Toshiba enterprise drive. The plan is to install Debian on it, then copy /home, etc., to it. The old drives will then be backups. (I also have a 10-tb drive devitoted to pictures; that drive, too, will go into the backup safe.) The last time I did anything like this, a few years ago, it involved a peculiar recipe that, fortunately, doesn't apply now. And I realize that I've never done a straight install of a big drive to an EFI system. So. First, I'm trying to remember how to do a fill low-level check of the drive, to knock out any bad sectors, etc. I don't think GParted does it. Second, I'm trying to figure out how to best partition the thing, to get it to boot properly. I know there needs to be a dinky FAT32 partition someplace. What I don't know is where it should be and what size it should be. After that I'll have a non-home partition and a /home partition, as well as /swap. Is there any new thought as to the ideal size of the swap partition? Machine has 32 gigs of memory, and I do not keep a huge number of applications open at once, but I will have a lot of drive space. Any settled preference as to the location of the swap partition? (I remember that in OS/2 the rule was the most-used partition of the least-used drive. Speaking of which, there's a small walk down OS/2 memory lane here: https://ofb.biz/safari/article/1240.html ) It would be pretty straightforward but for the wad of stuff up top re. EFI, big drive, etc., with which I have next-to-no experience. Advice? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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More: Trying to install Trinity 14.1
by Jonesy via trinity-users 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

I'm back again -- both with a new list subscription and my ongoing Trinity install attempt. Ive added the PPAs for my Ubuntu 24.04 and did the agt-get install without seeing any errors. I did the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity with the following output: jonesy@nix6:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity Upstart is not active - masking initctl Adding 'local diversion of /sbin/initctl to /sbin/initctl.distrib' Removing 'local diversion of /sbin/initctl to /sbin/initctl.distrib' jonesy@nix6:~$ .. which means nothing to me. ??? Anyway, when I reboot, I am presented with a login screen whose background claims "kubuntu" "Powered by Trinity" huh??? kunbuntu? So, I complete the login, and I AM PRESENTED WITH THE GNOME DESKTOP. No doubt it's a snafu on my part. But where do I start looking? Thanks in advance! Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ.net | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | FreeBSD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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Somewhat OT: How To (re)join these users and devel lists?
by Jonesy via trinity-users 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

My gmane access to these lists has almost devolved into a read-only situation. It seems I can do a new post -- as I did successfully yesterday "Subject: Trying to install Trinity 14.1" .. to which I received a accurate and polite answer. However, when I tried to do a followup for a "Thank You!" (twice I tried), I see there was no posting of THAT item. My gmane access date back to the _OLD_ gmane.org days and I have no memory of how my subscription has been carried forward to what I'm having trouble with today. Searching the web, and https://trinitydesktop.org/ , and the https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/ website yields no results for how to join the lists. Just how does one get on to the users and devel Trinity discussion lists? I wish to do it with a much cleaner, less convoluted email addy and profile. (As you can see, my email addy was setup for the bad ol' days when usenet was a harvest location for spammers.) Thanks! Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ.net | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | FreeBSD * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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Trying to install Trinity 14.1
by Jonesy via trinity-users 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

I'm trying to install Trinity 14.1 on my brand new Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome(ugh) pc. I have the ppa(s) set up in /etc/apt/sources.list.d : deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> main deps deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> main deps I did the import of the GPG signing key. Doing a $ sudo apt-get update gives me this: : : : Ign:5 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> InRelease Err:6 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> Release 404 Not Found [IP: 37.205.10.16 80] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. Huh? Looking in Index of /trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x/dists/noble/ I see both InRelease _and_ Release files Thnks for any help! I really, Really, REALLY want to be shed of this &^#(*&^%$@ Gnome! Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ.net | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | FreeBSD * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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Trying to install Trinity 14.1
by Jonesy via trinity-users 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

I'm trying to install Trinity 14.1 on my brand new Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome(ugh) pc. I have the ppa(s) set up in /etc/apt/sources.list.d : deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> main deps deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> main deps I did the import of the GPG signing key. Doing a $ sudo apt-get update gives me this: : : : Ign:5 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> InRelease Err:6 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> Release 404 Not Found [IP: 37.205.10.16 80] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x <noble> Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. Huh? Looking in Index of /trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x/dists/noble/ I see both InRelease _and_ Release files Thnks for any help! I reall, Really, REALLY want to be shed of this &^#(*&^%$@ Gnome! Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ.net | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | FreeBSD * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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