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Re: Old Debian and Starting A Service

David,
It booted and spoke with the prompt of vinux.
I got the IP address it was using, but I couldn't get it to allow an SSH session. 
It would not update and I didn't know how to upgrade it.
The next time I rebooted it, it wouldn't boot, so I scrapped it.
I couldn't find any on-line documentation on it.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net> 
To: "K0LNY" <glenn@ervin.email>
Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2023 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Old Debian and Starting A Service


Glenn,

You said "Yeah, I got it to boot up but I couldn't get into it, and I
got no guidance
on upgrading it, so it was a non-starter.".

If you're talking about Vinux 2.1 Debian CLI (we talked about the
Debian and the Ubuntu versions of Vinux, so I don't know which you are
referring to) it opens up talking with instructions.

Vinux 2.1 is the best documented distro I've ever seen.
When it boots, it beeps, but do nothing, just wait 40 seconds, then
the prompt will appear. There is writing on the screen that doesn't
speak.

The writing just says "type h" for help.
If you type "h" at the prompt, an amazing document of help appears.

Did you get that far, Glenn?

BRGDS,
David

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:04 PM K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
Yeah, I got it to boot up, but I couldn't get into it, and I got no guidance 
on upgrading it, so it was a non-starter.
Anyway, I got Debian 11.7 installed, I just have to set up the WIFI again.
Last time I did this, it was on the same i386 machine, but on a 32 gb SD
card in the card slot.
I wanted to put a good working image on the internal 4 GB SSD and then make 
an image of it, so I can restore it if I need to.

Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
To: "K0LNY" <glenn@ervin.email>
Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2023 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Old Debian and Starting A Service


Vinux 2.1 CLI Max is based on Lenny Debian 5.0.10, it's a x686 32bit
system.  Works fine here.

Vinux 3 and later are all based on Ubuntu and are (sadly) Graphic User
Interface.  They have the Command Line Interface of course, but they
have a GUI already installed.

BRGDS,
David

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 7:10 PM K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
>
> Well I can't get the image to boot a second time.
> I may need to find a newer Vinux.
> I read the screen while it was trying to boot, with my iPhone, and this
> Vinux CLI only, is Debian 1.10.22.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: K0LNY
> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2023 4:05 PM
> Subject: Old Debian and Starting A Service
>
> Hi,
> I thought I'd give this old Vinux 2.1 CLI a go on the Asus 701, to see > if 
> I can upgrade it little by little.
> I have been looking for older Debian commands to start SSH.
> I tried to apt-get install SSH, and it said it is already running the
> latest, which is the latest for it's package, which I don't know is > Debian 
> 2.1, because it's Vinux 2.1.
> But it does not know systemd or systemctl.
> So I don't know how to get the service running.
> It seems to have no WIFI, but I tried to find its IP address with
> hostname -I
> and it was before the capitol I was used, so I found the IP with a small
> I.
> But the connection is still refused.
> I tried to update, and it said it is updated already.
> I also don't know the upgrade command for older Debian.
> So if anyone remembers, thanks for any info.
> Glenn
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