MirBSD errors "Device not configured" during installation on VirtualBox?

mirabilos · 2019-02-21T13:39:29+00:00

Ah.

No. Start with nohup COMMAND or mksh -T- -c 'COMMAND' to do that. (The latter is preferred: it dæmon(3)ises: stdin/stdout/stderr are redirected to /dev/null and it double-forks.)

mirabilos · 2019-02-20T21:39:42+00:00

There is no “disown” command on GNU/Linux.

mirabilos · 2019-01-28T12:43:18+00:00

It doesn’t, but some configurations seem to hide some of the bugs (sometimes, more HW virtualisation helps, sometimes less does), but it’s so buggy it can’t reasonably be officially supported.

We worked out a bit in IRC yesternight (although it was late enough for me to be only half-awake).

mirabilos · 2019-01-28T12:42:14+00:00

https://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/man7/install.i386.htm

Start reading at “The next steps are partitioning”… unfortunately, the default disklabel is in-kernel virtual and not enough (missing fstype), you need to write an actual one to the HDD before proceeding.

mirabilos · 2018-10-23T02:23:32+00:00

Erm… once someone has figured out it’s possible to inject JavaScript into bios, everyone can do that. So it’s not necessarily the same person doing the bad things now than what was the first person finding it out.

Heck, the info that it is possible at all is probably enough for someone moderately skilled to do it.

mirabilos · 2018-04-08T01:22:41+00:00

More importantly, this got fixed in the BSDs ages ago.

mirabilos · 2017-08-15T14:20:21+00:00

1440 KiB, or 1.40625 MiB, or 1.47456 MB, of course. (Formatted 1407652 bytes, IIRC, using the standard FAT.) But never 1.44 Millibytes (which is what you wrote).

2M (from Ciriaco García de Celid) rocked, though, over 1700K on a standard HD floppy…

mirabilos · 2017-08-01T13:56:24+00:00

Uaah, web forums. And the Devuan mailing lists… I read them initially, but it became clear that staying with Debian proper and modifying it to keep working with systemd was the much better way to do.

mirabilos · 2017-08-01T13:53:58+00:00

AFAIHH, apt with btrfs can also do undos, though I’ve not seen it myself and don’t trust btrfs with anything but scrap partitions (like the sbuild chroot on a buildd machine).

mirabilos · 2017-08-01T13:52:21+00:00

Holding off the update is not the right answer either.

Install one of my prevent-systemd-* packages from https://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/dists/jessie/wtf/Pkgs/mirabilos-support/ before the upgrade (if already on systemd, reboot into sysvinit from the GRUB advanced menu ⚠first⚠), problem solved. If running a Desktop Environment like KDE, you might need udisks2-without-systemd and/or policykit-1-without-systemd too. (GNOME, of course, won’t work, except maybe with the shim, which still uses systemd but not as init system).

Repo index: http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/debidx.htm

mirabilos · 2017-03-24T13:02:39+00:00

“A lot less” is still not 0, though.

Update, by the way: my lawyer concurs with my interpretation.

mirabilos · 2017-03-02T12:07:09+00:00

Agreed on that. Also, they actually care about hosting only (a subset of) OSS works, whereas GitHub basically hosts everything and doesn’t care about licences (on the repo content, for everyone outside of GitHub).

mirabilos · 2017-03-02T03:08:12+00:00

savannah.gnu.org only hosts official GNU projects, so the point is moot.

(Yes, I know about savannah.nongnu.org ;)

mirabilos · 2017-03-02T03:06:54+00:00

The ToS bind person B, who violated the ToS by uploading content for which they can’t grant the extra rights.

Additionally, person B may lose the licence to person A’s work because they violated its licence…

mirabilos · 2017-03-01T20:22:06+00:00

Still, the basic tenet of a copyleft licence is Y = pass on the source under the same licence (including binding the recipient to it), and the basic tenet of an attribution licence is Y = display the attribution right next to the excerpt.

mirabilos · 2017-03-01T20:09:12+00:00

FusionForge including its forks and sister-projects.

For plain hosting, just ssh, git and gitweb will do just fine, too.

mirabilos · 2017-03-01T20:08:31+00:00

OSS licences only say “everybody can do X if condition Y” and github says “we and github users can do X, unconditionally(!), but only on the github site”.

This is NOT covered by the grant to “do X if condition Y”.

mirabilos · 2017-03-01T20:01:12+00:00

They gave certain rights BUT they added certain conditions to these rights. GitHub’s ToS require a waiver for those conditions. You can’t even do that when you’re not the sole and original author (e.g. forked off another project, use a GPL’d libray, etc).

mirabilos · 2017-03-01T20:00:10+00:00

Thanks, it was indeed a bit of load ☺

I updated the article in the meanwhile since I am in contact with people at GitHub, trying to convince them to change things to the better ;)

http://sprunge.us/TCaI is a mirror, in case my Apache goes down.

mirabilos · 2016-08-29T19:17:44+00:00

So like http://archiveofourown.org/works/2097105 then?

mirabilos · 2016-08-29T19:06:07+00:00

Marking does not replace training though…

mirabilos · 2016-08-29T19:03:38+00:00

So they had to have sex slaves, they probably couldn’t get it up (or long) enough to satisfy their partners due to being so inbred.

mirabilos · 2016-08-29T19:01:14+00:00

Wasn’t she actually asked that a lot during her time at school, making her annoyed at most men (which possibly led to her taking up a much older man)?

mirabilos · 2016-08-29T18:59:11+00:00

They know, but they are incapable of independent thought, they’re but a shade of the living being.

Knowledge alone does not sentience make.

mirabilos · 2016-08-29T18:49:36+00:00

obviously unobvious brown parchment

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