On 06/17/2018 05:23 AM, William Morder wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 June 2018 01:51:31 Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> On 06/13/2018 04:17 PM, Kate Draven wrote: >>> Ok so here's the update after the reinstall. >>> Automounting is gone. I haven't checked yet if udisks2 is installed. >>> I'm almost convinced it was something I did. >>> We shall see after I install the rest of the packages. >>> >>> Now, however, whenever I plug in a usb hd, it doesn't show up on the >>> desktop. When I set it to show umounted hd vols, it also shows me root >>> drive. Not good. In the previous bigdaddy iso, I could plug a usb hd and >>> it would pop up on the desktop as would a USB drv. >>> >>> Any suggestions as to what to look into? >>> >>> Kate >>> >>> Hey Doc, I'll see if I can uninstall udisks2 and the like before adding >>> packages to see what calls it. >> >> It's been almost 7yrs since I built a .iso, I just ran the last one I >> built on both intel and amd and it ran best on the amd, even kweather >> updated :), but the drivers and firmware are old. So I set here with >> build instructions in front of me for rolling my own Devuan distro, I'm >> thinking Devuan Jessie+TDE-Trinity or TDE base+full firmware and drivers >> and hopefully it will run and install on any computer, ksnapshot will be >> added plus any suggested adds. I don't need this but maybe someone here >> could use it. Any takers? ;) >> >> Cheers, > > Yes, please. I am thinking of trying to create an iso from my installed system > (if I can). I seem to remember something in Ubuntu/Kubuntu that did that very > thing. (Was it called mondo?) But now I can't find it. > > Once I've got my system running like I want - and I'm pretty much there now - > I just want to keep it like that, and only upgrade. > > Wasn't there a way to configure the old Debian to do automatic "rolling > upgrades"? - using "stable" instead of "jessie", for example, in the > sources.list? Or am I just dreaming? > > Bill If you're looking at stable I suggest using "Exe Linux" built on Devuan Jessie and TDE for Jessie. It's what I recommend and what I use unless I'm doing a core/base install. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=exe As for Devuan ASCII it's still a work in progress and I suggest only for testing. The Devuan mailing list is a good source for info if you are serious about saying no to systemd as I am. https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263