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Lähettäjä: Arnt Karlsen
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] ..vdev box recovery ideas?, was: gvfs depends on libsystemd0
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 02:21:53 +1000, Ralph wrote in message
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> Arnt Karlsen wrote on 19/04/17 23:17:
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> >
> > ...wiped udev off my box and wound up with a box that boots oh soo
> > fine until it tries to load my new vdev
> > initrd.img-4.9.0-2-rt-amd64 ...am I the first one here to try this
> > on a rt kernel?
> >
> > ..recovery ideas? Do we have any vdev live-cd?
> >
> > ..last time I did this stunt, I chrooted in off a Knoppix? iso,
> > I have memdisk and a few iso links handy in /boot, and Debian's
> > Sid vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-amd64, vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-rt-amd64 and
> > vmlinuz-4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 with systemd-udev initrd's, but they all
> > depend on a working install of udev AFAIK, and I'd prefer pushing
> > thru with vdev rather than going back to udev.
> >
> > ..has anyone here tried downgrading to Debian Wheezy era udev?
> >
> >
> > ..looking for recovery live-cd idea starting points, I came across
> > 32-bit https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/zz02debiandogwheezy.html
> > which could work both as a starting point for a live-cd and as a
> > starting point for an upgrade path for stuck Debian Wheezy people
> > via "Devuan-0.x Wheezy" to current Devuan-1.x Jessie.
> >
> > ..according to https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/ "DebianDog is
> > very small Debian Live CD shaped to look and act like Puppy Linux.
> > Debian structure and Debian behaviour are untouched and Debian
> > documentation is 100% valid for DebianDog. You have access to all
> > debian repositories using apt-get or synaptic.", creating
> > "Devuan-0.x Wheezy Live-CD" etc is trivial, toss their repos for
> > ours, update, upgrade and remaster, the 64-bit version likely needs
> > to be built off deb-src lines.
> >
> >
> > ..but first comes the classic chicken-and-egg 64 bit recovery
> > I need now. ;o)
> >
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> I'm not sure it helps you, but I've made a vdev variant of most
> recent devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live.iso (time stamped
> 2017-Mar-27 20:57) that I got from the official mirror
> http://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/devuan/
>
> I purged a couple of things from it, then added and installed "my"
> vdev_0.1.1_amd64.deb, and made a refractasnapshot of this, into
> devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live_vdev.iso, which is downloadable at
> https://www.uk.realsam.co.uk/files/devuan/
>
> It boots with vdev rather than udev, and udev remains installed,
> though with all its "competing" files tucked away. As you might know,
> this vdev packaging is different from aitor's packaging for gnuinos
> by not declaring a udev competition, but rather attempting to manage
> a dynamic choice of which one is in use. The software is otherwise
> the same, I believe.


..thanks, we shall find out. ;o)


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