Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 6/6/24 22:14, gene heskett wrote:
> In experimenting I've found a name clash, there are appprently two 
> orca's. one is a speech synth, one is a slicer for 3d printers I don't 
> use. Typing orca in a shell locks the shell wo any output, for several 
> minutes but comes back to a prompt with a ctl-c, so I've NDC which was 
> being executed. Whatevver, the installation is quite voluminous:
> gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ locate orca |wc -l
> 1560
>
> So I took orca out, which took gnome out. But now gnomes dependencies 
> will put orca back in. So now I can't run autoremove. So one more time 
> this broken damned bookworm install has bit me in a rear.
>
> No Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.


Here are my installation notes from when I migrated my daily driver from 
Debian 9 to Debian 11.  It has orca, and orca has never bothered me:

January 9, 2022

1.  Wipe Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB drive in Intel DQ67SW.  Insert
    debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst USB flash drive into USB 3.0 port
    adjacent Gigabit port. Boot:

	Debian GNU/Linux installer menu (BIOS mode)
					install
	Language			C
	Continent or region		North America
	Country, territory or area	United States
	Keymap to use			American English
	Hostname			laalaa
	Domain name			tracy.holgerdanske.com
	Root password			********
	Re-enter password		********
	Full name for new user		debian
	Username for your account	debian
	Choose a password		********
	Re-enter password		********
	Select your time zone		Pacific
	Partitioning method		Manual
	  Select a partition...	SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 60.0 GB ATA INTEL SSDSC2CW06
	    Create partition table	Yes
	  Select a partition...		pri/log 60.0 GB FREE SPACE
	    Create a new partition
	      New partition size	1 GB
	      Type			Primary
	      Location			Beginning
	      Partition settings
		Use as			Ext4 journaling file system
		Mount point		/boot
		Mount options		defaults
		Label			laalaa_boot
		Reserved blocks		5%
		Typical usage		standard
		Bootable flag		on
		Done setting up the partition
	  Select a partition...		pri/log 59.0 GB FREE SPACE
	    Create a new partition
	      New partition size	1 GB
	      Type			Primary
	      Location			Beginning
	      Partition settings
		Use as			physical volume for encryption
		Encryption method	Device-mapper (dm-crypt)
		Encryption		aes
		Key size		256
		IV algorithm		xts-plain64
		Encryption key		Random key
		Erase data		no
		Bootable flag		off
		Done setting up the partition
	  Select a partition...		pri/log 58.0 GB FREE SPACE
	    Create a new partition
	      New partition size	13 GB
	      Type			Primary
	      Location			Beginning
	      Partition settings
		Use as			physical volume for encryption
		Encryption method	Device-mapper (dm-crypt)
		Encryption		aes
		Key size		256
		IV algorithm		xts-plain64
		Encryption key		Passphrase
		Erase data		no
		Bootable flag		off
		Done setting up the partition
	  Configure encrypted volumes
	    Write the changes to disk	Yes
	    Encryption configuration	Create encrypted volumes
	    Devices to encrypt		
	      [*] /dev/sda2 (1000MB; crypto)
	      [*] /dev/sda3 (13000MB; crypt)
	    Continue
	    Encryption configuration	Finish
	    Encryption passphrase	********
	    Re-enter passphrase		********
	  Select a partition...		#1 13.0 GB f ext4
	    Partition settings
	      Use as			Ext4 journaling file system
	      Mount point		/
	      Mount options		defaults
	      Label			laalaa_root
	      Reserved blocks		5%
	      Typical usage		standard
	      Done setting up the partition
	  Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
	    Write the changes to disks	Yes
	Debian archive mirror country	United States
	Debian archive mirror		deb.debian.org
	HTTP proxy information		<blank>
	Package usage survey		No
	Choose software			Debian desktop environment
					    Xfce
					SSH server
					standard system utiilties
	Device for boot loader installation
					/dev/sdb (ata-INTEL_SSDSC2CW060A3_********)
	Installation complete		Continue

    Push and hold power button at POST; release when computer turns
    off.  Remove USB flash drive.

2.  Take image:
<snip>


I may have installed only once in the past 2 years, ~4 months, but I 
have blown up that computer many times.  The key is defense in depth -- 
OS configuration files and data working directories in a networked 
version control system (CVS) with the repository on another computer, OS 
disk images, OS and data backups, IMAP backups of incoming and outgoing 
messages, etc..


Did you ever build that dedicated backup server?  I recall you buying a 
bunch of 2 TB 2.5" SATA SSD's for crazy cheap that turned out to be 
counterfeit, but do not recall any news since then.


David