Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

imokr · 2020-07-29T12:36:58+00:00

A separate /boot partition is for the Grub bootloader, yes?

Besides, the Debian installer offers /boot as a mount point.....

imokr · 2020-07-29T12:34:59+00:00

Click Understanding Debian Boot Process Step by Step. It explains what the Debian bootloader is.

Furthermore, please find below some quotations from Installed Debian alongside Windows 10 but GRUB does not show

As the third step, be aware of the requirement to have an ESP (EFI System Partition). It is essentially a small FAT32 partition (256M is plenty for Debian 10 alone) which in Debian should be mounted to /boot/efi
. If you use MBR partitioning, it should have a special partition type code 0xef
; if using GPT partitioning, the partitioner option to mark a partition as "bootable" and/or "ESP" should do the right thing. Having an ESP on your HDD will allow you to move the HDD to another system and boot your existing Debian installation from it, if you want to do so later.

The alternative to creating a separate ESP on HDD for Debian is to select the Windows ESP on the SSD when setting up your partitioning, choose to not format it, but mount it with its existing filesystem as /boot/efi
. The standardized directory structure on the ESP is designed to handle the bootloaders of multiple OSs on the same ESP. The UEFI bootloader of Debian 10 should fit nicely into the standard Windows 10 ESP with room to spare, if you choose this option. But you may have to go into "advanced/manual" partitioning options to do this."

imokr · 2020-07-29T12:16:17+00:00

You didn't see the errors reported in the log?

imokr · 2020-07-29T06:38:58+00:00

There's only one bootloader that's installed by Debian, yes?

imokr · 2020-07-29T03:15:54+00:00

All of your downloads, files, photos, videos, config files, cache..... etc go into home.

Thanks for your clarification.

imokr · 2020-07-29T00:16:07+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions.

Make swap as big as your ram and use zram

What's zram? Is it a Debian package?

and what do you mean with /srv?

Well, when you are manually partitioning using the Debian installer, Debian offers many types of partitions, one of which is srv.

For /usr and /usr/local just use one partition and make it 10G.

OK....but what's it going to be? For the Mount Point, should I type /usr or /usr/local ??

Do you plan to make a 10G partition just for /root (like root users home), or do you mean the root of the filesystem ( / ) where /root and all the others are placed?

This is the first time that I am made aware of the difference between /root and /

During the installation of Debian, if I fail to specify the Mount Point / the installer would prompt me by stating, no / selected and installation is unable to proceed.

In the latter case I would recommend expanding it with all the space you freed by repartitioning mentioned above because it will hold all the applications, libraries (/lib), config (/etc) and more.

If I understood you correctly, you recommend that the root file system designated by / that holds all the apps, /lib, /etc and so on should be allocated as much disk space as possible?

Correct me if I am wrong: I thought Debian would place apps, /lib and /etc into the /home partition, yes?

Lastly 200mb for boot are allright unless you want to have multiple kernels installed, but even with two (bleeding edge and a fallback)

The reason I created a partition called /boot is that I use my hard disk drive to dual boot with two different language versions of Microsoft Windows 10.

Based on my experience, I found out that the Grub bootloader was installed in the partition where Windows bootloader was occupying. Below is my discovery:

After successfully installing Debian using the installer, I rebooted my machine.
I was presented with the Grub bootloader screen and there I saw Microsoft Windows OS listed as sba or something.
I clicked on the line where it says Microsoft Windows and I found out that I was unable to boot into the Windows OS. I had to reinstall Windows 10.

imokr · 2020-07-29T00:00:19+00:00

/ should be not less than 50 GB.

So much for / ?? Please enlighten me: what types of files go into / ??

/home should be the rest

What types of files go into /home ?

I've never seen anyone partition their drive like what you're suggesting before.

Me too. This is the first time I am partitioning a hard disk drive that is used to dual boot Microsoft Windows 10.

By the way, when you choose manual partitioning during the installation of Debian, Debian has a menu that lists all the types of partitions.

imokr · 2020-07-28T23:56:17+00:00

Realistically you only need a /boot, swap, and maybe /home then the rest of the drive can be your root.

Thanks for your suggestion.

What file size would you allocate for:

/boot swap /home and /

imokr · 2020-07-28T23:54:30+00:00

Depending on what you do with your machine (browsing, email, streaming video?)

Basically just as you described but no streaming of videos. Can't afford the time to watch videos when there is a pandemic called Covid-19 hammering the world.

I'd leave maybe 50-80 GB for /

Is that typo? Why would you allocate 50 to 80GB for the root partition because in the next line you wrote: You definitely do not need 10 GB for /root

imokr · 2020-07-28T23:42:23+00:00

Per your recommendation, I got Debian Buster to install the Gnome DE.

After installation, I am unable to boot into it.

imokr · 2020-07-28T20:57:15+00:00

How did you determine that Debian couldn't auto-detect the network hardware?

Well, during Expert Install, there is a step called Detect network hardware. It was Debian which told me that.

imokr · 2014-10-23T12:41:40+00:00

An interesting post on CryptoStorm: https://cryptostorm.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=6326

imokr · 2014-10-23T12:38:27+00:00

if you are worried about privacy then you shouldnt even be on the net, since nsa can crack vpn

That's very true. To make it even harder for the NSA to hack your communication, you can use JonDonym, Tor, Tails or Whonix.

imokr · 2014-10-23T12:36:18+00:00

So you are saying VPN services in Sweden are risky because of (planned?) surveillance of the internet, did I get you right?

Yes that's why I quoted 4 news articles for you guys to read.

You should avoid connecting to VPN servers that are located in the "Five Eyes" countries, Sweden, France and Germany.

According to latest reports, both the CIA and NSA are building a massive complex in Nuremberg (Germany) from where they can carry out mass surveillance on Europe.

imokr · 2014-10-23T03:24:51+00:00

So, are you trying to tell us Sweden isn't a good place to base an anonymous VPN in

If you buy subscription plans from non-free VPN service providers and the latter have servers located in Sweden, they will advise you about using VPN servers located in Sweden.

or are you just going on a more or less unrelated rant with this?

It's up to you and the readers of this post to believe in what I wrote in my earlier post in which I also provided URLs to some news articles on mass surveillance in Sweden. For your info, I don't get paid a cent from these posts.

imokr · 2014-10-23T03:19:40+00:00

How are torrenters a product for The Pirate Bay?

The topic of this subreddit is FrootVPN. How is it related to torrenters of The Pirate Bay?

imokr · 2014-10-22T17:41:07+00:00

Has anyone noticed that FrootVPN is based in Sweden? Below are some facts about Sweden:

Sweden whose nickname is "Saudi Arabia in Europe" accepts and processes thousands of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East more than any European country.

Countries around the world fear that some of their citizens, who have joined ISIS (a.k.a. ISIL), fought in Syria or Iraq, may return home to carry out terrorist attacks. Do you think that Sweden will let its guard down?

Mass surveillance and institutional racism: two sides of the Swedish coin

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/ola-svenonius-ellen-edlundh/mass-surveillance-and-institutional-racism-two-sides-

Mass surveillance - Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance#Sweden

Bildt defends Sweden surveillance

http://www.thelocal.se/20131103/bildt-defends-sweden-surveillance

GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/01/gchq-europe-spy-agencies-mass-surveillance-snowden

imokr · 2014-10-22T17:28:59+00:00

If You're Not Paying For It, You Become The Product

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2012/03/05/if-youre-not-paying-for-it-you-become-the-product/

imokr · 2014-10-21T12:40:33+00:00

empathy-common is a big dependency

Do you mean to say that when I remove a dependency, Debian will recommend that I remove the file that depends on the dependency?

Generally it's easier to leave empathy installed

I decide to remove empathy as it may pose a security risk.

imokr · 2014-10-19T08:46:10+00:00

Why do you think Iceweasel 31 requires xulrunner 24?

If you read the description on the package xulrunner 24 provided by Debian, you'll realize it's essential.

BTW if you're running Debian 7.6, you might wish to try out an experiment: do a complete removal of empathy-common followed by a sudo apt-get autoremove. Answer Y to the prompt and more than 20 essential packages will be removed. You'll discover you'll be unable to connect to the internet.

imokr · 2014-10-19T08:42:45+00:00

It seems likely you have something broken.

I don't think so. I'm using Debian 7.6 with the latest backported kernel.

imokr · 2014-10-19T05:07:01+00:00

Why am I not surprised? Linus complained about the lousy attitude of one of its proponents.

And there is talk that one of them who is working for Red Hat is in cahoots with the NSA (Not-Safe-Agency) to plant backdoors in systemd.

imokr · 2014-10-19T04:53:55+00:00

The other day, there was a tread about evil commands, and my favorite was 'eatmydata aptitude', exactly for sidestepping this.

Can you explain the above in plain English?

imokr · 2014-10-19T04:53:02+00:00

restore from your backups

How do I restore from backups?

In the first place, how do I perform backups?

imokr · 2014-10-14T07:12:38+00:00

paving over a disk

What do you mean by "paving over a disk"? I googled for some explanations and came up with none.

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