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Re: [opensuse] How to move completely to new HDD?
by Felix Miata 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Greg Freemyer composed on 2016-03-14 18:58 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: > You seem to be overthinking the process into avoidable complications. > 1-Shut down > 2-Connect new disk >= used size of old[1] > 3-Boot something other than anything that lives on the source or target disk > 4-Ensure nothing on source or target gets mounted > 5-Clone with any true cloner, the entirety of the source, sector by sector, > be it with dd, dd_rescue, clonezilla, whatever. I've never used Clonezilla. > Mostly I use DFSee[2], but with a failing source I have used dd_rescue. > 6-Shut down > 7-Remove old disk > 8-Move new disk to connector formerly used by old > That's it, as long as you never try to boot either source or target without > appropriate configuration modifications while both are connected to the same > PC. If you need to do that, then you first need to either wipe one of them > (possibly only selectively), or change UUIDs and volume labels on one of > them (possibly only selectively). > All that said, I don't often do ("move") as you propose. I almost always > want the new to be different in some way, obviating the possibility of > cloning an entire disk. In part this is why I use DFSee's large > multi-platform tool chest for the bulk of disk configuration processes. The > biggest thing it can't do is manage FOSS bootloaders. Typically with a wiped > or new disk that can't be initialized via temporary installation in a > machine booted to an installed OS, I boot Knoppix to create any initial > filesystems that aren't to be provided via cloning, and to configure the > first bootloader. > [1] if old is old enough to use legacy 512b sectors, and new has 4k sectors, > you may wish to reconsider cloning at all. Better to partition, format, and > install at a minimum bootloader, probably plus OS, fresh, then use cp or > rsync to copy files; this to avoid potential performance degradation. > [2] DFSee is not FOSS. http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/ > Another caveat with Felix's approach is if you have certain mount paths in your > /etc/fstab or possibly in grub it can blow up. I simplified maybe a bit more than I should by not mentioning: 1-with relatively few exceptions, my fstabs and bootloader stanzas, use LABEL= syntax for everything important, easier for a human brain to manage than UUIDs 2-booting here is always initialized via a boot-flagged primary partition via generic MBR code, usually Grub Legacy > For simple PCs I tried out the various mount by_uuid, by_id, by_path options. > But I too tend to do clones like Felix describes. > For whatever reason after some clones I would find myself in a failure state. Using what cloner? Failures here are virtually always a result of me forgetting something, and easily fixed. > If I were going to do a clone as Felix describes now, the first thing I would do > is fix the /etc/fstab to use good old /dev/sdx type of device names. Shouldn't be necessary with a true clone that is not installed in same system as source disk at the same time, big trouble to skip doing otherwise. > Then after the clone I would evaluate switching back to whatever the old > mechanism was. (But I just make stick with /dev/sdx unless that's giving me > issues on a specific computer. Because I'm not usually doing full disk clones, and am nearly always working on multiboot disks, I tend to add and combine certain steps. e.g., 1-boot an installation logically low on disk, clone (or create, if not making an exact full disk clone) the entire partition structure but not the filesystems on the target 2-reboot same installation, configure boot process on a small primary partition on target, often as simply as restoring a partition image, otherwise create new filesystem on the small primary, install Grub Legacy files, run setup from grub> shell, configure initial boot menu 3-reboot same installation, umount all sources, clone the upper source filesystems, exit cloner, change UUIDs and LABELS on targets, mount the clones to edit the fstabs and boot configs as necessary 4-repeat 3, except from a source already cloned, the remainder 5-shut down 6-test 7-fix whatever was forgotten My cloner (DFSee) makes nice logs that function well as partition cataloging, so that even with high partition count per machine, tracking such processes remains simple. Those "catalogs" enable simple enough tracking of what's installed on which hardware even though partition count on working machines here numbers several hundred plus. Most recently created "catalog": http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gx150L11.txt -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] running opensuse on oraclevm
by Ruben.Safir 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

I wanted to run leap on oracle's VM on win10 and I can't get it to work. The standard directions seem to fail me and i can't get the vm to boot an installation image downloaded from the opensuse website. Any hints as to what I;m doing wrong? the oraclevm has a opensuse option but only 32bits Ruben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] MSI GE72 2QC Apache with Nvidia GTX960 series graphics card. Freezes at various places in the installation process.
by S. 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hello open SUSE group: having trouble installing Leap most recent version from a USB stick on- MSI GE72 2QC Apache with Nvidia GTX960 series graphics card. Freezes at various places in the installation process. Can you advise ? Many thanks in advance, Sabin ( New York, USA ) sman356(a)yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] polluting the filesystem
by Ruben Safir 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Can someone explain what the pooint of this is? This is a new installation. I tried to cutomize the partioning, but leap didn't like it and wouldn't like me log in. So I just relented and wiped the drive clean with cfdisk and let it do what it wanted and this is what it does... ruben@stat15:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 428K 16G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 16G 2.3M 16G 1% /run tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% / /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/lib/libvirt/images /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /.snapshots /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/tmp /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /tmp /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/spool /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/opt /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/lib/named /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/lib/mysql /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/lib/pgsql /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/lib/mailman /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/lib/mariadb /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/crash /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /usr/local /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /srv /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /opt /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /boot/grub2/i386-pc /dev/sda3 21G 5.2G 14G 28% /var/log /dev/sda1 156M 4.6M 152M 3% /boot/efi /dev/sda4 909G 21G 889G 3% /home /dev/sdc1 2.8T 2.5T 277G 91% /run/media/ruben/FantomHD -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com -- don't use google mail. It sucks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] mail stuck
by Ruben Safir 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Can someone please see why ruben(a)mrbrklyn.com in detention on this list and free me. I would appreciate it. -- don't use google mail. It sucks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] MSI GE72 2QC Apache with Nvidia GTX960 series graphics card. Freezes at various places in the installation process.
by S. 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hello open SUSE group: having trouble installing Leap most recent version from a USB stick on- MSI GE72 2QC Apache with Nvidia GTX960 series graphics card. Freezes at various places in the installation process. Can you advise ? Many thanks in advance, Sabin ( New York, USA ) sman356(a)yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB3 drive not recognized
by Koenraad Lelong 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi, I recently purchased a Seagate STDT4000200 Backup Plus Desktop drive. When I boot the laptop with the drive connected, all is fine (AFAICT). But when I boot the laptop without the drive and plug it in later, the drive is not recognized. More, when I shutdown the laptop with the drive plugged in, the laptop does not shutdown fully. Any suggestions where to look for clues ? cat /proc/partitions gives nothing for the drive when plugged in later. journalctl -f is silent when plugging in the drive. Thanks, Koenraad -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] Desktop faster
by ianseeks 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

On Sunday, 13 March 2016 08:25:29 GMT Anton Aylward wrote: > On 03/13/2016 04:43 AM, ianseeks wrote: > > :o) i don't use a laptop, i hate them. Give me a proper keyboard any day > > ::o) > <rant> > Indeed. > Somewhen, the Canadian government decided it would be nice to impose on > the non-French speaking population a French keyboard. Now, if I walk > into somewhere like RadioShack/Tandy/Source there are rows of laptops > and PCs with these abominable keyboard. I point this out to the > salescritters and they look perplexed. I show them the proper keyboard > at the sales terminal and then the laptop keyboards and there is an "oh, > right", but they don't understand why it is. Can they get laptops with > proper keyboards? I ask. They don't know; they don't even know who to ask. > > So I contacted Dell (Canada) and HP/Compaq (Canada) to ask this question > and a year later still await a yes/no answer. Support redirects me to > Marketing and Marketing is very good at blithering and trying to tell me > why a keyboard that increases my error rate is good for me. > > Note the reduced size left shift key and the accent key no respectable > anglophone would ever want to use beside it. > http://f.tqn.com/y/french/1/S/n/H/2/canadiankeyboard.jpg > </rant> Well, once they get the EU / Canada trade agreement sorted, you might be able to order from a EU country :o) > <rant> > Now that Goodwill (Ontario) has bankrupted its hard to find older, under > powered, heavier but non the less "secure" laptops from the last > century, for some value of "secure". Its not as if I need oodles of > computing power, given I have my cell phone, which has more computing > power in it than all of NASA at the time of the moon shots, but for > basic email+pgp and https with a keyboard that allows speed typing in a > way that the phone's on-screen keyboard and the dinky bluetooth keyboard > don't permit, its wonderful. > </rant> > > A happy Leap Forward Sunday to you all :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] thunderbird can't start theme font changer
by buhorojo 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

42.1 In tb I installed: Theme Font & Size Changer It doesn't show. I looked under the tools menu. Does anyone have it working? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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RE: Re: [opensuse] TomTomGo Gps Map update on opensuse.
by stakanov＠freenet.de 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Uzair Shamim > Gesendet: Fr. 11.03.2016 02:58 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: Re: [opensuse] TomTomGo Gps Map update on opensuse. > I am not sure how you update this device but if it is just a USB > connection you can easily make windows VM in KVM, do USB passthrough on > the device and then update from windows. WINE is not always reliable so > you may want to try KVM if needed. > > -- > Regards, > Uzair Shamim > -- > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende----- Well you would not believe up to where greed arrives. The "new" TomTomGo Family has a dongled (that is, on purpose, a non standard) usb cable, NOT to allow "not vendor TomTomCable" to do data transfer. Recently you can find "cracked" third party usb-cable. If your read the manual of the device this is "crypted" by the sentence that the use of "non original usb cable" can lead to "problems during map update". What is more: the software seem to "sense" the presence of a "real" windows OS (it's a Volkswagen!), as the update is done via a browser plugin that does work in windows and mac but astonishingly does not allow Linux or the installation in Wine. As I do not owe any copy of windows anymore, since a decade, and all my machines I do buy them without the "markeleader OS", my solution will NOT be to prime a producer's organized crime behavior and worse to buy in addition a IMO non functional spyware from MS. Therefore, either I make it with this, or I will have to stick to internet cafés (as long as they still work with virtualized windows machine on linux hosts. My hope is the arrival on the market of some Chinese producer However Medion (AFAIK Lenovo) has "windows-mobile" on its devices .... and given the reliability of the latter OS (hands on experience) they should come directly inside a waste bag! (As to show that also Chinese industry happen to do all wrong sometimes). Garmin sells hardware with "best before date" having care to glue the battery inside the apparatus and needing 10 minutes and a reboot(!) to find the satellites. The fact that at the end I finished with TomTom was for despair and because it was "next!" in the queue, surely not because of conviction. Guess that gave you an idea. PS: The file system is "crypted" on the device because the mentality is, that "as a user I am a potential criminal". The rational stays within the fact the before some individuals acceded like you say through the network to extract the maps and (yes these where real AOTDs) and so, since at the time there was the great idea to do alike the printer producer (sell cheap crap and earn on the map "run by bike" to follow the indications in direction "dune de pilar". It will send you directly on a well guarded French army base for the development of middle distance missiles "Camp Naouas". It claims that your "cycle way" is right through the base. I know because I had a smalltalk with the heavily armed buddy at the entrance that fortunately was amused Did send a report to TomTom, got notified "corrected" and (after 6 updates and a year later) tried it out - to find myself at the entrance of the army base. :-) PITA is PITA I guess. No further comment. --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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