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OpenRC+sysv fixes Debian's (my Debian's) shutdown/reboot problem

Posted 07-02-2017 at 11:50 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 07-05-2017 at 11:31 AM by the dsc

For some reason it was failing to unmount everything, and then simply halting indefinitely.

OpenRC/sysv seems to work fine, so far.

A console install is probably advised, if anyone is considering doing the same. After installing openrc, the install script will suggest a kind of pre-reboot line that will "manually" deactivate the services and then you should reboot. Which I did with sysreq, even though I probably shouldn't have.

I think they...
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NFS-RAMBOOT - How-To for Debian 9 Stretch

Posted 06-30-2017 at 05:09 PM by IsaacKuo

NFS-RAMBOOT adapts my RAMBOOT hack to NFS root (PXE or not). On boot, it extracts an OS tarball from an nfs share into local RAM (recommended 3+GB of RAM). The result is like a very fast SSD.

Why do this? Compared to RAMBOOT, loading (and saving) the OS tarball over gigabit ethernet can be faster than a local hard drive or USB drive, if the file server has an SSD or a faster hard drive (compare 3.5" drives to 2.5" laptop drives, for example). Also, having the OS tarballs...
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Hurdles of a customizer

Posted 06-30-2017 at 04:42 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 06-30-2017 at 04:44 PM by the dsc

So I've recently learned that Slim Display Manager is obsolete and ideally should be replaced with something else. Perhaps that's why systemd doesn't always actually turn off the power or reboots when it should, I thought, as I've read that it wasn't keeping up to date with systemd's stuff.

I've spent almost "the entire day" testing some other ones, and somehow none works just right. They mess with environment variables so that either the notification daemon doesn't work...
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ArchEX (Arch linux) Youtube video

Posted 06-30-2017 at 09:23 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Ike Santos (https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ike.Santos) has made a YouTube video about ArchEX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPlH...ature=youtu.be

You will get a detailed description about how to install ArchEX in VirtualBox using Calamares Installer.
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Interactive script to update gentoo install

Posted 06-28-2017 at 09:43 AM by lazydog

#/bin/bash

read -p 'Update the Portage Tree? ' tree

if [ "$tree" == "y" ]
then
echo '*******************************'
echo '*******************************'
echo '**'
echo '** UPDATING PORTAGE TREE'
echo '**'
echo '*******************************'
echo '*******************************'
echo
echo
eix-sync && \
echo
echo
fi
...
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