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>chrooting into the installed system Elaborate/point me to somewhere I should read?
Alexander Torres
#!/bin/sh if [[ $# -ne 5 ]];then echo "usage: $0 input.avi start_second end_second output.webm resolution" exit 1 fi infile=${1:?missing input file} startS=${2:-0} endS=${3:-4500} outfile=${4:-$infile.webm} resolution=${5:-848x480} let "durationS = endS - startS" let "bitrate = 12 * 8192 / durationS - 64" if [ $bitrate -gt 600 ] ; then bitrate=600 fi printf "The start timestamp is $startS and the end timestamp is $endS. The duration is $durationS. The bitrate is $bitrate. The resolution is $resolution\n"
Ok so I realized the reason why the boot installed failed. Accidentally made it ext4 and not fat32.
But now grub doesn't show my Windows 7 installation. What do?
Zachary Ward
mmh are you sure windows is installed in efi-mode and not legacy-mode?
Bentley Morales
run parted -l in a terminal and port output
Andrew Parker
Gentoo is recommended.
Matthew Garcia
Model: ATA MKNSSDRE512GB-LT (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 512GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ntfs 2 525MB 378GB 377GB primary ntfs 3 378GB 378GB 537MB primary fat32 boot, esp 4 378GB 395GB 16,8GB primary ext4
Not sure at all. Is EFI mode required?
I also ran bootinfoscript as I was following someone who turned out to have had a different issue. pastebin.com/AN2RTbud
Logan Lopez
Who is this semen demon?
Aaron Cox
ok heres the problem: Windows seems to be installed in legacy mode(partition table is msdos) and you installed manjaro with an esp and probably some other kind of efi settings. grub pics ub manjaro because its installed for efi but does not pcik up windows becaus ewindows is installed in legacy mode.
Either that or you have an esp partition jsut for fun and the problem lies somewhere else.
Henry Sanchez
Yeah well manjaro's installer told me I needed an ESP tagged partition.
Is there no way to make grub start my windows partition then? How would I convert it from legacy?
Before i installed it successfully I tried to start windows because I was thinking maybe I had to convert it to a GPT so I was gonna just image it first. But as it wasn't booting I decided to look at manjaro more.
I'm a little out of my depth.
Jason Adams
ok try this: (optional)remove the esp partition and do whatever you want with the free space(you can just leave it there if you dont need it) set the boot-flag on your / partition(sda4) remove the esp partition from your /etc/fstab reinstall grub in bios mode with # grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda generate a new grub.cfg with# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg restart your pc and make sure it boots in bios(legacy)mode
Jaxson Gomez
raspberry pi 3 raspbian lite update issue posted here any input is appreciated
Nathan Rodriguez
you either don't have an active internet connection on the pie or their servers are down
Daniel Stewart
Daily reminder ArchLinux installation uses arch-chroot script to simplify the process.
I'm sshed into it over local, but ping bing.com doesn't work ???
Benjamin Flores
ifconfig and lsmod
Carson Ward
Ok so a few questions before i fuck up: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may # be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if # disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # UUID=8850-3740 /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime 0 2 UUID=2924709f-5a2c-4dd0-b082-e27ff3174ed9 / ext4 defaults,noatime,discard 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
That's my current fstab. I presume you mean I should simply delete the line containing UUID=8850-3740 >reinstall grub in bios mode... Ok so this installs grub in bios mode, does that mean it will detect the Windows install because it's also in bios mode? (as in not UEFI mode, I'm not sure I got the terminology straight). >generate a new grub.cfg Just reading the crub.cfg that that command outputs when you don't set an output file it doesn't mention windows or any of the mounts for the NTFS systems. Is this correct? Will it act differently when grub is installed in bios mode?
Kevin Hall
Is there a command in gnu/Linux that can set a timer when to shut off the computer?
Like in windows you have >shutdown -s -t #seconds and >shutdown -s -a To cancel the former
Can't get a straight answer from the rest of Sup Forums because of memes so I'll ask here.
What's the deal with Solus? I have some mental condition that makes me install a new distro every 3/6 months for fun even though I suck at using linux. Any reason i should/shouldn't try solus for a month or two?
Kevin Ramirez
It's just nothing special.
It has some nice stuff, but the kevinposting has given it a bad rap
Jonathan Lee
ask Kevin.
Aaron Brooks
>people complain arch has no installer >people complain when they provide scripts to automate part of the installation process make up your mind, it makes no sense to complain about both
Dylan Watson
I see people using Kali to get into wifi. What tools would I need so I can get into it on Fedora?
Joshua Anderson
Okay this is exactly what I needed to see. Couldn't sift through all the kevin to figure out why people were memeing, but I guess it was just kevin himself and no one really felt either way about Solus. I'll try it for fun.
fuckn kevin
Josiah Carter
sorry about the wait yeah it's just # Generated by resolvconf
Gavin Parker
try adding nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 search lan local
Gabriel Lewis
is that linus?
jesus that man not only has brains but a nice body too. what a superman!
Lincoln Wilson
I did that and rebooted the pi pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update Err mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie InRelease
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install htop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: ltrace The following NEW packages will be installed: htop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 68.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 135 kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! htop Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y Err mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main htop armhf 1.0.3-1 Could not resolve 'mirrordirector.raspbian.org' E: Failed to fetch mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/h/htop/htop_1.0.3-1_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'mirrordirector.raspbian.org'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
same error
Nathan Hill
what's a good image viewer
I want to read hentai but all of them work inherently different compared to sad panda which I'm used to
Carson Rivera
is /etc/resolve.conf emptied again?
Leo Thomas
yeah I just checked it empty, re-added
Liam Cruz
Nomacs
Grayson Bell
dont reboot after adding. also check if linked resolv.conf ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
Matthew Rodriguez
Looking to install linux on a new Asus x540s.
These motherboards come with secureboot, and the usual option (to be able to set the 'selected OS' option to 'other OS') is to save the loaded keys, erase the keys, and then disable secureboot, which enables that option to be selected; this enables the user to load a Linux flashdrive or CD and kill windows.
However, attempting this on this laptop instead greys out the entire OS section, and I can't do anything at all to it, even after re-entering the old keys.
I've checked separate forums for a specific fix for this laptop, and I can't seem to find anything - maybe I have advanced autism and just missed the solution, but do any anons have advice? My 30 day return for its purchasing store is already out, and I'd rather not sell it since it wouldn't go for much.
Hudson Ortiz
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Evan Williams
>dont reboot after adding. I turn the pi off to plug the sd card into my laptop to edit it how can I edit it from ssh terminal?
Aaron Nguyen
i thought you were ssh'd already? run nano /etc/resolv.conf or vi /etc/resolv.conf as root
Juan Murphy
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 Nov 25 18:52 /etc/resolv.conf
I did nano and edited in same old error sudo apt-get update Err archive.raspberrypi.org jessie InRelease
Isaac Roberts
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Michael James
what are you using to get the rpi's ip? heres some other stuff to try. the nameserver ip's are all googles' so change to what you prefer or your gateway
>dhcpcd nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf and add static domain_name_servers=8.8.4.4,8.8.8.8 or adding nohook resolv.conf to prevent it from overwriting resolv.conf
>networkmanager nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf then goto "main" section and edit dns=none to prevent resolv.conf getting overwritten
>encase youre using ipv6 nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8888 nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8844
Easton Williams
>That's my current fstab. I presume you mean I should simply delete the line containing UUID=8850-3740 yes
>Ok so this installs grub in bios mode, does that mean it will detect the Windows install because it's also in bios mode? (as in not UEFI mode, I'm not sure I got the terminology straight).
probably
>Just reading the crub.cfg that that command outputs when you don't set an output file it doesn't mention windows or any of the mounts for the NTFS systems. Is this correct? Will it act differently when grub is installed in bios mode?
probably
also read the link the other user provided
Tyler Thompson
Any possible way to search for subtitles on MPV?
Lincoln Martinez
thanks it's working now pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install htop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: ltrace The following NEW packages will be installed: htop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 68.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 135 kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! htop Install these packages without verification? [y/N]
then how to remove the security notice?
Lincoln Cruz
no idea on that, possibly sudo apt-key update sudo apt-get update
Jaxon Wilson
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-key update gpg: key 90FDDD2E: "Mike Thompson (Raspberry Pi Debian armhf ARMv6+VFP) " not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 Warning: removed keys keyring /usr/share/keyrings/raspbian-archive-removed-keys.gpg missing or not readable pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update Err mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie InRelease
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install htop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: ltrace The following NEW packages will be installed: htop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 68.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 135 kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! htop Install these packages without verification? [y/N] n E: Some packages could not be authenticated
Elijah Stewart
yea, i'm not very 'aptitude'. *ba dum tsss*
Logan Williams
ping mirrordirector.raspbian.org PING mirrordirector.raspbian.org (5.153.225.207) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mirrordirector.raspbian.org (5.153.225.207): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=336 ms ^C --- mirrordirector.raspbian.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 336.247/336.247/336.247/0.000 ms ┌[arch][~/INF_CPP/C03/uebung06/build] └▶ping archive.raspberrypi.org PING lb.raspberrypi.org (93.93.130.39) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 93.93.130.39 (93.93.130.39): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=455 ms 64 bytes from 93.93.130.39 (93.93.130.39): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=529 ms ^C --- lb.raspberrypi.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1732ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 455.098/492.253/529.408/37.155 ms
sites are up. make sure there is nothing wrong on your end
Jacob Howard
check the sources.list mrn
Grayson Perez
yeah that's my issue, my end okay, how?
Blake Butler
Do I need to be concerned?
Kevin Long
Hot damn! this thread always has the best OC. What are you running? fedora or manjaro?
Leo Parker
Fedora. I was running it fine on my Thinkpad, then I pulled the drive, put in a fresh SSD, installed from USB and this.
Luis Jenkins
How do deal with installing Linux on a newly built machine and drivers for video cards, etc. if the company doesn't have a Linux driver.
Angel Cook
open source generic hid
Brayden Lopez
So am I fucked if i can't find an open source driver for the card I got?
Nolan Ward
I need a software to simulate logical gates and combinational circuits. Might as well be an electronics simulator or whatever. What's the best one for Linux (if there's even any)?
>tfw you survive an assassination attempt and go on to win
Jace Gomez
if you're using amd, yes
Jacob Campbell
first-timer?
Lucas Morales
I'm new to GNU/Linux and I'm using Ubuntu since I'm a casual and I'm just trying to get my feet wet.
I recently installed a new secondary HDD on my laptop and Ubuntu detects it and I wiped and partitioned it, but I can't actually put any files on it. In order for me to do so, I found that I have to use the root mode of my file manager in order to make new folders on it which is a bit annoying. It seems to treat is as a USB drive
Another issue is qbittorrent can't seem to download files onto the second HDD, so while I can download to my main drive, it won't let me download to the secondary HDD.
Just wondering where I'm fucking up, I'm still getting used to the different file structure.
Jayden Torres
Well it's because GNU/Linux is shit. But that should only happen with external HDDs.
Grayson Perez
heh, check your drives' permissions
Anthony Ward
hey there /flgt/
i'm currently trying to migrate an existing installation over to a shiny new SSD. i've got it partitioned and properly aligned, but i'm a little out of my depth here. just going top to bottom and dd'ing it over, partition by partition. problem is, i can't even mount the new drive. mount gives me a pretty unhelpful error message. upon # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
upon root /mnt # dmesg | tail:
[ 453.112903] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) [ 453.115015] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 453.115018] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 453.115760] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 453.120509] sdb: [ 453.123892] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 465.360886] sdb: [ 469.525402] sdb: [ 1217.503652] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 [ 2148.034151] perf: interrupt took too long (2523 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79200
anyone got any ideas? some things which may or may not be factors: >transferring from HDD to SSD >different partition sizes from HDD to SSD, from smaller (HDD) to larger (SSD) >different offsets
both drives are msdos ext4. any help or ideas would be awesome.
Jayden Ward
Why did thunderbird quit working today?
Also if I install geary it wont open either. have I been email client cucked?
Ayden Jones
boycotts
Christopher Parker
Who else Fedora here?
Christopher Green
I'm using arch btw.
Gabriel Carter
i'm having some audio issues on my x61 tablet running debian the audio defaults to muted and i have to go into alsamixer to change that every time i restart the machine. also the mute key on the keyboard doesn't toggle mute - if i ever press it i have to go back into alsamixer and unmute from there is there any way to permanently change the settings so it doesn't default to mute and so the key will toggle mute? i haven't been able to find anything that fixed my issues
Nicholas Martin
Any graphic editors out there with a tool similar to Photoshops Spot Healing Brush tool?
Evan Carter
No idea what it does, but I just checked and gimp has a healing too. Not sure if that's what you want or not
Oliver Jenkins
Hmm i must have missed due to my autism, will check it out again thanks lad
Jace Nguyen
me
Jose Sanchez
i was looking over a team member's apple laptop a couple days ago at a meeting, and it was embarrassing how slow it was. it kept stalling all the time and it was just slugging in general. is linux really that much faster than other operating systems? i'm using a thinkpad t something model so my hardware should be a lot worse
Luis Gomez
Are bluetooth headsets supposed to be a bitch to work with on Linux? The bluetooth manager only allows me to use the A2DP sink profiles when it wants to, it seems.
William Nguyen
TLP doesn't automatically start when I boot. I doublechecked that all TLP services were enabled by systemd and booted properly, yet it'd still start off draining as much as it would without TLP. I even ran tlp stat and it was set as enabled, but still draining as usual until I manually started it.
Robert Hall
Gentoo or funtoo?
Adam Allen
Why is the acer_wmi loading bug still a thing even in newer distros?
Angel Price
Last night, while on the W7 side of my dual-boot configuration, my laptop froze up completely. I held the power button down and restarted, and managed to get back in after W7 checked the file system and found nothing wrong.
This morning I logged into KDE Neon just fine but, coming home after work, I find it now checks the filesystem as well and then jumps to Emergency Mode afterward. What should I be looking for when running "journalctl -xb" for a specific issue as to what's happening?
Jaxson Cook
what do you use that machine for? 35 days uptime is interesting
Ethan Peterson
I should also add, in case it matters: it looks like the filesystem check it does before kicking me to Emergency Mode never seems to reach 100%; it looks like it stops at around 95, though that could just be that it isn't showing it completing. Not sure either way - checking my hard drive health in W7, it says it's fine.
Parker White
On IceCat i can't post in random ImageBoards because "invalid HTTP", i try disable my addons but this shit happens, what i need make?
Hunter Carter
amd64 or ~amd64?
Lincoln Bell
So I finally fell for the ganoo + lanooks meme and installed debian on my laptop. I'm using i3 and everything is so much faster than windows Right now I'm changing my config to personalize it a bit. Is there any way to make it so whenever I open a workspace, it starts a program? I want workspace 1 to open urxvt every time I open it (if not already running), 2 to open chromium, etc.
