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Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

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Gene Heskett Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:14:03 -0800
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 > On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
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On 6/4/24 03:26, gene heskett wrote:
> How much longer till trixie is officially out??  What you are proposing 
> sounds like several days work, and i have other irons in the fire. This 
> release has been such a disaster for me because the install insists on 
> installing and configuring orca and brltty w/o asking. I've done 40 some 
> installs now, trying to stop it from wasting about a second while its 
> yelling every keystroke at me because it thinks I'm blind. I finally 
> have orca disabled and the computer is useful. The delays are a pain in 
> the a$$ but i can do work now. It is not useful when orca is using 90% 
> of a 6 core I5 yelling at me loud enough to announce and pronounce every 
> keystroke or mouse motion/click loud enough to wake the neighbors.  The 
> first 23 installs never asked me if I wanted that crap. And if you nuked 
> the orca executable it would not reboot but hung forever waiting for 
> orca to start. I have it usable, the installer AFAIAC is broken and I 
> don't want to have to go through all that again. Until the installer 
> ASKS me if I want it because it thinks I am blind, I have only one nerve 
> left and and the suggestion that I do yet another install, is standing 
> on it. Trying to remove it now, it insists on removing gnome and every 
> dependency. I just checked again with synaptic, removing either orca or 
> brltty still wants to destroy the system, Yet all I get when I fuss 
> about the broken installer is "won't fix, not broken'.


I suggest:

1.  Back up the system configuration and data.

2.  Disconnect everything internal to the chassis except for the 
motherboard, power supply, front panel, fans, processor, memory, and one 
disk drive for the OS connected to the first IDE, SATA, or NVMe port.

3.  Disconnect everything external to the chassis except AC power, wired 
keyboard, wired mouse, wired monitor, and Ethernet.

4.  Boot into Setup and reset settings to factory defaults.  Choose 
between BIOS/Legacy and UEFI, if there is a choice.  Set the disk 
controller mode to AHCI.  Set the clock to UTC.

5.  Boot the disk manufacturer toolkit and wipe the OS drive -- secure 
erase for SSD's and zero-fill for HDD's.

I seem to recall that you have a 1 TB WD Black.  WD does not appear to 
offer a bootable disk drive toolkit (?):

https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/downloads/softwaredownloads

If you can find a FOSS toolkit to do a secure erase, that would be best. 
  Alternatively, find the non-zero blocks and zero them (a good job for 
a script).

6.  Boot debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso and install Debian onto the OS 
disk.  I partition manually with 1 GB EFI system partition, 1 GB boot 
partition, 1 GB random encrypted swap partition, and a small passphrase 
encrypted root partition (twice your current root partition usage?). 
Save the remaining free space for CAD, CNC, 3-D, etc., working/ scratch 
files and over-provisioning, to be configured after installation.  If 
your desktop environment of choice is not offered by d-i, do not install 
a desktop environment.

7.  At the end of installation, reboot.  Remove d-i media during POST. 
Verify the system boots from the OS disk.  Login and check vitals, but 
do not change anything.  Power off.

8.  Boot your FOSS toolkit of choice, or d-i rescue shell, and take a 
compressed image of the OS disk to a file on a USB HDD.


I use a version control system (CVS over SSH) for software development, 
but also find it to be very useful for system administration.


David

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Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-04 12:30 +0200
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-06-04 20:20 +0200
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-06-05 04:50 +0200
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-06-05 08:40 +0200
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-06-05 12:10 +0200
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-05 17:00 +0200
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-05 17:20 +0200
        Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-05 17:50 +0200
          Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-05 18:10 +0200
          Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-06-06 11:50 +0200
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-06-05 23:50 +0200
        Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-06 04:00 +0200
          Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-06-07 00:00 +0200
            Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-07 06:30 +0200
            Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-07 07:20 +0200
              Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-07 13:20 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-07 14:10 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-07 14:10 +0200
              Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-07 13:40 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-07 23:30 +0200
              Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-06-08 00:20 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-08 01:20 +0200
              Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-06-08 03:00 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-08 07:50 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-06-08 09:30 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-08 21:20 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-06-09 00:10 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-09 08:10 +0200
                Snaps and Co [was: about 10th new install of bullseye] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-06-09 07:00 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-06-09 01:30 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-09 08:20 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-06-09 14:00 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-09 15:00 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-09 16:20 +0200
                Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-06-09 22:10 +0200
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye BUT its not Bullseye, its  bookworm! gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-05 17:30 +0200
      Re: about 10th new install of bookworm! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-06-06 00:50 +0200
        Re: about 10th new install of bookworm! gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-06 04:10 +0200
          Re: about 10th new install of bookworm! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-06-06 04:30 +0200
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye BUT its not Bullseye, its  bookworm! David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-06-06 03:00 +0200
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-06-05 19:20 +0200
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-06-05 23:10 +0200

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