I have a problem. It started with a MB fritzing on me. Getting a new computer then caused another issue. I have been using debian sid for many years and have several programs that have needed info such as logons, passwords and configurations that I can no longer remember.
I do know that it would be best to just start from scratch, but I really would like to avoid that if possible. Now The HD is fine I can run linux up to the point of the desktop. The reason of course I need the video driver. I use my favorite script smxi and it says can not connect to internet. So I ping router and 8.8.8.8 and that works fine. Check apt-get and it can not get connected. The other thing that might be effecting things is that one of the HDs has Win on it although I have not made any changes to fstab myself to include that.
Another point is that at the beginning of the smxi script it offers to fix using network and it setup network fine the the error still comes back on 2nd try. As both smxi and apt-get are effected it seems to me that there is a file tath needs to be edited. The only ones I can think of are maybe hosts and nsswitch, but I am not sure what to do with them as I have made no changes since last time I used linux and it was working fine then.
Did you run ceni to set up your network?
greetz
devil
Ran ceni. Set it up and came back with a working response. The only thing I can think of is that 5-6 years ago I ran into a similar problem when I was trying to setup smb links in fstab and had to add wins to the host line in nsswitch. Unless boot has added something because of my Windows ntfs HD I shouldn't have a need for that as I no longer have any of those links.
In that case however apt-get/smxi calls up internet connections which it different then when you get into the desktop (think decktop uses its own connection protocols in order to use network/internet connections) and therefore I was able to use browsers on the desktop, but still apt-get could not.
Of course did not leave any notes for myself on what I found out and also 90% of which you do find is either obsolete, related to totally different setups or just plain garbage.
Like I said I can ping google with no trouble.
hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 abcde
# Below lines are for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
nsswitch.conf:
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
Now that I figured out how to at least see linux files from windows (just started this experience) any thing else I can help you with I would if I can.
If I need to just start from scratch. Any way I can save my /home/ data setup so that I can save my desktop and program names/passwords setups?
You used a single-partition-approach? No separate home? In that case I would use cp -a /home/user /somewhere to save it. If you have a single partition for home, just do not format it again in the installer. You can either mount it there or not touch it at all and just import the important pasts in your new home after install.
greetz
devil
Must be very old news or just the way the distro that I started with setup that /home was not allowed to be on its own partition. I think my original setup goes back to very early days of sidux.
Probably about time to start fresh.
Remember a lot of discussion at the time about separate partitions. Some distros did, but sidux at the time very much against it I believe because somethings could be called from it before the rest of the partitions got loaded.
O/T a bit. I really like your distros and how they handle hardware. The question I have is that I will be getting a new HD and maybe getting a SSD. Is there anything I need to make changes in fstab and grub to handle an SSD? I will be placing temp on a different drive so in theory it should last a very long time.
The fstab needs arguments like UUID=.... / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=60,discard,errors=remount-ro
Other than that no more preparations and precautions are neccessary for SSDs.
greetz
devil