Re: Old Debian and Starting A Service
It's a live Command Line Interface CD. It boots into the system.
h is for help. Or you can type the whole command "help".
h or "help" opens up help.txt in nano.
Capital V in "install Vinux to hard drive".
Vinux CLI max comes with ssh server and client installed.
menu runs pdmenu which is that ASCII graphics menu.
n runs cnetworkmanager.
It's all in help.txt which you can read (it speaks) with command h or "help"
BRGDS,
David
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:50 PM K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
>
> I thought it said type help for help, and I kept trying typing help and got
> no help.
>
> ----- 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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