nemo | hum. so... attempt to upgrade ubuntu 14.04 to devuan live seems to have failed miserably | 14:10 |
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nemo | init related kernel panics | 14:10 |
nemo | so. fine. it was just an experiment, I move on to usb install | 14:10 |
nemo | it now seems that I need to format root partition since debootstrap is erroring on attempting to setup | 14:11 |
nemo | tar can't open './etc/libaudit.conf' file exists | 14:11 |
nemo | soooo guess I'll back up stuff in /etc I care about and wipe it | 14:11 |
nemo | heh. and if the installer fails on that step it says you need to go back and wipe the base system | 14:12 |
nemo | which I would like to do, but the installer does not allow | 14:12 |
Hurgotron | IIRC I managed to upgrade ubuntu 12.04 to the previous version of Devuan... | 14:12 |
nemo | there's literally no way to get back to the partition screen | 14:12 |
nemo | Hurgotron: *shrug* I couldn't find any writeups so just tried to muddle through best I could | 14:12 |
Hurgotron | but I felt it wasn't clean enough, so I wiped and installed cleanly. | 14:12 |
nemo | Hurgotron: it seemed to work, but yeah, stuck on these panics | 14:13 |
nemo | eh. screwit. the laptop has nothing of value on it apart from /etc/hosts which I have elsewhere anyway | 14:13 |
nemo | just gonna restart the installer | 14:13 |
nemo | but kinda funny it doesn't let me go back | 14:13 |
nemo | huh... strange after switching from Ubuntu 14.04 to devuan install this Dell Precision M6600's screen is being detected as a max resolution of 1152x864 instead of the 1600x900 native | 15:16 |
nemo | I guess I can hardcoded it into X config, but thought that sort of thing really wasn't necessary these days | 15:17 |
nemo | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=87139 guess it's same problem this person has | 15:22 |
nemo | adding a new modeline to xrandr seems to have fixed | 16:02 |
capnick | Hey. Does devuan release a multiarch install-iso? The targeted notebook uefi requires i386 while the cpu is possible of running amd64. It's a bit messed up. | 16:21 |
DonkeyHotei | apple made quite a few machines fitting that description | 16:24 |
MinceR | afaik the atom x or z soc-s also come with 32bit uefi implementations for the sole reason of making it more difficult to replace windows on them | 16:25 |
MinceR | most windows tablets use them | 16:25 |
nemo | ugh. spoke too soon. | 17:30 |
nemo | (just got back to that laptop, but yeah, the mode switch fails) | 17:30 |
nemo | hum. where does ubuntu keep its clearly more-comprehensive monitor info... | 17:31 |
plasma41 | capnick: To my knowledge Devuan doesn't has a multiarch netinstall ISO like Debian. If you can successfully boot from the desktop-live ISO, you may be able to install with the refracta-installer tool. | 23:37 |
plasma41 | What's the model of the target notebook? | 23:38 |
fsmithred | oh, I didn't see that one earlier. Yes, the amd64 desktop-live will let you install a 64-bit system with 32-bit grub-efi | 23:40 |
fsmithred | takes just a little manual work extra (i.e. install the grub-efi-ia32 package, which is in the root of the live filesystem) | 23:41 |
fsmithred | Pretty sure there's some explanation of this in the install help. | 23:41 |
fsmithred | plasma41, I'm gonna guess it's an old macbook pro | 23:43 |
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