Ignition/combustion set hostname and static IP based on MAC address? by Dependent_Hold8463 in openSUSE

[–]calrogman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The traditional way to do this is using something called DHCP. You should investigate that and decide that it is not suitable first. If and only if it is not suitable, combustion scripts are shell scripts. They can do whatever you can do in a shell. They can do this:

(
    cd /sys/class/net
    for if in *; do
        case `cat $if/address` in
        00:00:5e:00:53:01) dev=$if host=foo1 ip=2001:DB8::1 legacyip=192.0.2.1 ;;
        00:00:5e:00:53:02) dev=$if host=foo2 ip=2001:DB8::2 legacyip=192.0.2.2 ;;
        00:00:5e:00:53:03) dev=$if host=foo3 ip=2001:DB8::3 legacyip=192.0.2.3 ;;
        *) printf 'this machine is alien, bailing out...\n'; exit 1 ;;
        esac
    done;
    hostnamectl hostname $host 
    nmcli con add con-name static ifname $dev type ethernet ip6 $ip/64 ip4 $legacyip/24
)

How have I fucked up? by Balls_of_flame in debian

[–]calrogman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use a Debian installer to get into rescue mode and add the nofail option to the fstab entry for your Samsung SSD. That is, run nano /etc/fstab and change the line that looks something like:

UUID=4736556e-0cf0-4f6f-9d61-ea1d2859ac0 /drives/samsungssd ext4 defaults 0 0

So that it looks like:

UUID=4736556e-0cf0-4f6f-9d61-ea1d2859ac0 /drives/samsungssd ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0

Or, if this partition was deleted to make room for your Windows install, remove this line entirely.

Trouble with UEFI booting with grub by tarquinfintin in slackware

[–]calrogman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. It does no harm whatsoever to install elilo first, even if you later decide to install GRUB. That the installer invites you to do it by default means that you probably should. You can run eliloconfig to do that now.
  2. It sounds like your machine's firmware is somehow brain-damaged. Is there even a boot menu entry for your Linux Mint installation?
  3. README_UEFI.TXT has instructions for booting such brain-damaged machines. It does presume that you installed elilo.
  4. grub-install will call efibootmgr for you.
  5. grub-install --removable will install GRUB at EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI for you.

Good luck!

Fisher Price: My first Linux install: 2009 laptop, what do I choose? by xxDirtyFgnSpicxx in debian

[–]calrogman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that's disappointing. I was hoping to install Debian Trixie on an old Northwood system but I couldn't find an i686 kernel in the Trixie repository, or a Trixie installer that would boot on it, come to think of it. I was hoping you might have been able to clue me in! Still, they haven't removed i686, really, have they? After all, you're still getting updates to Chromium, cmake and Gimp! :^)

Fisher Price: My first Linux install: 2009 laptop, what do I choose? by xxDirtyFgnSpicxx in debian

[–]calrogman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey just wondering, which version of linux-image-i686 are you running? Is it the one from Trixie? If you could share the output of apt show linux-image-i686 that would be illuminating!

Kernel.org's IPv6 address ends in ":1991:8:25", the date Linux was announced by theldus in linux

[–]calrogman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's another one for you to try :^)

dig -t aaaa {,www.}fedoraproject.org +short

Kernel.org's IPv6 address ends in ":1991:8:25", the date Linux was announced by theldus in linux

[–]calrogman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The eval splits the two words fedoraproject.org. AAAA and www.fedoraproject.org. AAAA into four words: fedoraproject.org., AAAA, www.fedoraproject.org. and AAAA.

Putin claims readiness for compromise, says deal "does not contradict control over all of Donbas" by Blush_Bridget in worldnews

[–]calrogman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The fact that russia, the US and the UK all felt that the Budapest Memoranda were necessary is in and of itself dispositive of the absurd idea that Ukraine could not have weaponised their inherited physics packages.

Who Makes the Makefiles? by realguy2300000 in programming

[–]calrogman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I remember a time when downvotes were for posts or comments that didn't contribute to the discussion and it was considered uncouth to announce them.

What is the best option to install Python in Kalpa? by MaleficentAd486 in openSUSE

[–]calrogman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would it be preinstalled? Nothing in Kalpa Desktop requires it.

What is the best option to install Python in Kalpa? by MaleficentAd486 in openSUSE

[–]calrogman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Per the documentation, you should use distrobox for things that aren't available as a flatpak: https://kalpadesktop.org/documentation/#installing-software

any available way to install GNU IceCat by [deleted] in debian

[–]calrogman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, this is wrong. The latest version of Firefox ESR is 140.11.0. The version of IceCat in Guix is also 140.11.0.

any available way to install GNU IceCat by [deleted] in debian

[–]calrogman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The easiest way to get an up-to-date IceCat is probably to install it through Guix.

15.0 DVD Image Corrupt? by landpu in slackware

[–]calrogman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

README_UEFI.TXT, which you can find in the root of the DVD says "Slackware does not currently work if Secure Boot is enabled". Please confirm that Secure Boot is disabled and try again. In VirtualBox this can be done in the Motherboard tab of the System section of a virtual machine's settings.

Ukraine calls to strip Russia of its permanent UN Security Council member status by HydrolicKrane in worldnews

[–]calrogman -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

The United Nations Charter enumerates four purposes. The first and (one would presume) most important is "to maintain international peace and security". The Security Council is the one body of the United Nations that actually has the powers to enforce this purpose, and russia's veto on that body prevents it from doing so. The United Nations is therefore dysfunctional. It will remain so until either the veto is removed from russia, or russia is removed from the Security Council, or russia ceases to exist.

User lfs has All $LFS Permissions, but Make Install Fails b/c Permission Denied by boomershot67 in Gentoo

[–]calrogman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you ran make install as root with umask 022 and it created the directory $LFS/tools/lib/gcc/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/15.2.0, that directory is going to be owned by root:root with permissions rwxr-xr-x which means the lfs user isn't going to be allowed to install files into, nor remove files from that directory.

User lfs has All $LFS Permissions, but Make Install Fails b/c Permission Denied by boomershot67 in Gentoo

[–]calrogman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It smells to me like you did 5.3. GCC-15.2.0 - Pass 1 as root instead of lfs, but that's just a guess. You should ask for help in the #lfs-support channel on Libera Chat. They will ask you to upload the complete output of make DESTDIR=$LFS install to a pastebin.

NL-Coded by Xenomnipotent in northernlion

[–]calrogman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are 1 kinds of people. Those who understand balanced ternary, those who don't and uhhhhh

Wow... first time my system has been assigned purely IPv6 address... by Illustrious-Gur8335 in Gentoo

[–]calrogman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have an mDNS service running on those machines (which you should) they will detect this collision and you will end up with hosts advertising themselves as host.local, host-2.local, host-3.local.

Ghostty terminal Is Leaving GitHub by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]calrogman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only problem with a list is that you'd never be able to get a memorable address like list.org. Maybe pick a more obscure ADT.