General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=EE 20 D0;53042797]Seems like that model supports a max of 2 GB of RAM and the CPU is 32-bit. That's pretty limiting. Wouldn't recommend to use a distro with GNOME or KDE; so XFCE, LXDE, LXQT. Are you looking for something like a live USB or an actual installation on the stick?.[/QUOTE] An actual installation on the stick I suppose, but anything will do as like I said I just want to mess around on it

[QUOTE=Flash_Fire;53052263]An actual installation on the stick I suppose, but anything will do as like I said I just want to mess around on it[/QUOTE] Then debian is probably the sanest choice, since arch dropped 32-bit support. However I don't know how to install debian to a stick while the stick itself has the installation files, with arch I could load the installation to RAM and proceed normally. If you've got another stick that can hold the install, it's probably the same process as installing to a hard disk. Someone experienced with debian could be a little more helpful, since I'm mostly guessing based on how things used to work when I had a USB stick install some years ago.

I guess another option is, someone sends you an .img of a working install that you write to the stick then after booting you expand the partition so it fits the capacity. Is merges not working after some time intentional?.

Would YUMI or UUI on Pendrivelinux work? I've used YUMI to create portable Linux Mint installs for messing around in. edit: On second thought, maybe not. Perhaps creating a VM with a flash drive as the main drive could work.

I mean, if he has another stick around (or a rooted android phone) he can just boot off of it and then install his chosen distro to the 64GB stick.

Has anyone here run into an issue with vim and less completely locking up all terminal sessions for a user on exit? I think it has something to do with screen but I'm honestly past my knowledge level on this one.

Also this user seems to be having these issues on all the 6.5 CentOS systems but not the 6.1 Scientific one. Anyone know how user screenrc configs work/are stored on a netuser profile? Or is it all local to the machine.

How do I use filters/proxy redirection in iptables? I'm trying to setup a whitelist of websites that a vpn client can connect to.

[QUOTE=false prophet;53069201]How do I use filters/proxy redirection in iptables? I'm trying to setup a whitelist of websites that a vpn client can connect to.[/QUOTE] Forward chain - DNAT. Note that you'll probably break tls/SSL

Spend my morning with fontconfig. Pretty sure I got absolutely nowhere.

Here I go trying linux mint again. Two-finger scrolling kind of sucks, is there any way I can get it to be smooth and responsive?

How do I get emoji?

[QUOTE=Ott;53070822]How do I get emoji?[/QUOTE] You're likely missing a font with the emoji symbols. I don't know the specifics though as I don't use mint.

[QUOTE=Ott;53070822]How do I get emoji?[/QUOTE] You need an emoji font like [URL="https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/"]Noto Emoji[/URL] and then perform the forbidden fontconfig ritual to actually _use_ that font.

[QUOTE=Chryseus;52945531]I don't know if it has been posted before but this is pretty awesome: [url]https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term[/url] [t]https://i.imgur.com/6HJNIPJ.png[/t][/QUOTE] That's a very cool terminal, no doubt. But can you tell me what that game is called?

After some Googling I think it's called Angband.

Yeah, I agree, probably Angband.

Went through a Linux and Virtualization course (mainly terminals 101) in a couple of weeks when it's meant to last til April. Just the exam left to go and i've enough credits to prevent Kela from cutting off my bennies. Head hurts tho; it's either the illness i'm dealing with, or i'm metamorphosing into some hideous genetically-engineered parody of Tux.

[QUOTE=Ott;53070456]Here I go trying linux mint again. Two-finger scrolling kind of sucks, is there any way I can get it to be smooth and responsive?[/QUOTE] Xubuntu handles two-finger scrolling fine in my experience. What's wrong with yours?

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;53078074]Xubuntu handles two-finger scrolling fine in my experience. What's wrong with yours?[/QUOTE] In Windows, I'm used to being able to scroll pixel-by-pixel. In Mint (using KDE now), it's emulating scroll wheel ticks.

[QUOTE=Ott;53078140]In Windows, I'm used to being able to scroll pixel-by-pixel. In Mint (using KDE now), it's emulating scroll wheel ticks.[/QUOTE] I remember KDE doing that. I'm not sure how to change it because I didn't spend very long using KDE. Xfce handles it by the pixel. Sorry I can't be of more help.

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;53078074]Xubuntu handles two-finger scrolling fine in my experience. What's wrong with yours?[/QUOTE] Touchpad drivers is my bet, same problem with my old HP (forgive me) laptop.

[QUOTE=Van-man;53078383]Touchpad drivers is my bet, same problem with my old HP (forgive me) laptop.[/QUOTE] My old Acer didn't have the greatest drivers either. I use a Thinkpad T430 now so the drivers are pretty good.

[QUOTE=Ott;53078140]In Windows, I'm used to being able to scroll pixel-by-pixel. In Mint (using KDE now), it's emulating scroll wheel ticks.[/QUOTE] synclient has a ton of options. It may require some fiddling, but perhaps you can find some options that will make scrolling smoother than a puppy's fur. As usual when you need to know anything Linux related, check out the Arch wiki: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics[/url]

Upon further inspection, the scrolling issue seems to just be with Firefox.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;53078061]Went through a Linux and Virtualization course (mainly terminals 101) in a couple of weeks when it's meant to last til April. Just the exam left to go and i've enough credits to prevent Kela from cutting off my bennies. Head hurts tho; it's either the illness i'm dealing with, or i'm metamorphosing into some hideous genetically-engineered parody of Tux.[/QUOTE] My whole 4-year bachelor programme can be gone through in a week (except for memorization of propaganda classes like History), sadly sometimes you just have to open up your ass and let them system do its job on you.

I'm convinced SSDs are magic. Threw one in my T420 and did a fresh install of arch and even after getting things all set up how I like, from the second I click enter on my luks password it almost instantly boots to a login prompt.

[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;53085042]I'm convinced SSDs are magic. Threw one in my T420 and did a fresh install of arch and even after getting things all set up how I like, from the second I click enter on my luks password it almost instantly boots to a login prompt.[/QUOTE] Most computer tasks gain a bigger speedup from faster I/O than more processing power. Booting involves the largest and slowest kind of memory inside a computer; during this time the CPU has little to do but wait for things to be copied to RAM.

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I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu VM image by installing Ubuntu Core into a loop device and adding a bootloader/kernel. It all seems to be fine, except GRUB seems to throw this error: [t]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/340436341747875840/409318404323934210/Screenshot_from_2018-02-03_12-04-49.png[/t] [code] error: no such device: uuid Entering rescue mode... [/code] If I enter 'ls' into the GRUB Rescue command line, it seems that GRUB can't detect any partitions on the image, which is why it isn't finding the boot filesystem. Does anyone know anything about this issue? Code I use for building the image: [code] #!/bin/sh chroot=ubuntu-base-16.04-core-amd64 rm -rf "$chroot" "$chroot".img fallocate -l 400M "$chroot".img loop=$(losetup -fP --show "$chroot".img) ( echo o echo n echo p echo echo echo echo a echo w ) | fdisk "$loop" mkfs.btrfs "$loop"p1 mkdir "$chroot" mount "$loop"p1 -o noatime,discard "$chroot" cd "$chroot" || exit btrfs subvolume create root btrfs subvolume create boot btrfs subvolume create home cd .. || exit umount "$chroot" mount -o subvol=root "$loop"p1 "$chroot" mkdir "$chroot"/boot "$chroot"/home mount -o subvol=boot "$loop"p1 "$chroot"/boot mount -o subvol=home "$loop"p1 "$chroot"/home cd "$chroot" || exit tar xf ../"$chroot".tar.gz cd .. || exit rm "$chroot"/etc/resolv.conf cp /etc/resolv.conf "$chroot"/etc/resolv.conf echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main" > "$chroot"/etc/apt/sources.list for f in /dev /dev/pts ; do mount --bind $f "$chroot"/$f ; done chroot "$chroot" mount -t proc none /proc chroot "$chroot" mount -t sysfs sys /sys chroot "$chroot" apt update chroot "$chroot" sh -c "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt -y install grub-pc linux-image-virtual btrfs-tools" chroot "$chroot" grub-install "$loop" chroot "$chroot" update-grub chroot "$chroot" apt clean for f in dev/pts dev proc sys boot home ; do umount "$chroot"/$f ; done umount "$chroot" losetup -d "$loop" rmdir "$chroot" [/code] The same issue still happens if I use ext4 instead of Btrfs