virtually install new linux system!

Two identical SSDs. One to wipe, one running this system... Figured out by unplugging it that it is /dev/sda right now.

There is a `cp /dev/sda /media/.../trixie.raw` and back around all this, to get the size of the disk we are going to reformat and OS-ify virtually, with libvirt + qemy.

So I went into virt-manager and made a new machine, not the "Installation" process, but just defining two disks, the installer and the trixie.raw.

Check boot priority.

Installing doesn't have to be an emergency on a space station. Here I am, listening to music and choosing my language.

Advice for all the Choosables

Do go here and take the edu variant: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/
It has a little more firmware included, eg that wireless thing, so it could save time.

It's separate due to legal paranoia, or angelic, ethical purism depending on how you look at it.

Not sure what else it does to your system, choosing edu. Otherwise you'd have to plug in a cable and install 

I am seeking a feature called XFS, so the testing version of debian, the next version, 13. Usually I run stable systems... They seem to have all crapped out.

American English keymap - this means $. I can't remember how to get this laptop keyboard to not say < when I type /.

I enjoy that New Zealand is one of only a dozen "countries or territories" in the world.

Hostname = s
 
Encrypted LVM... No XFS yet. Ubuntu has it here! But alas. My sound is very glitchy and I'm developing a very soundy webapp right now.

Encryption stops stolen hard drives being an open book to anyone who has them. It wouldn't be very ethical to enable that. You could have anyone's data, with all the sharing. One mustn't manufacture consent, haphazardly leak info and enable crime... 

Who knows what social engineering someone's network could be stung with if they lost a computer. Voice recordings are needed to inform a fake voice. Etc.

But do leave the passphrase with someones less likely to die than you. Good.

It will be  

Never hit cancel, or "Go back", to a list of steps in this process, as you will engage a "wants all the questions" mode. Good luck.

Sometimes they will invite you to hit cancel,

Sometimes "there was no installable kernel found in the apt sources. It is likely the system will not be bootable." I just kept going! Surely if it doesn't know where the kernel is, maybe it also doesn't know that it does know where the kernel is...

No gnome, yes xfce4 and some other windowers I might get around to learning.

You get around to it rebooting and you have to Force Off (in virt-manager), and remove the install CD because it still takes priority over the new OS. And Start it again!

It went good, I'm now at a terminal in xfce4!

new Debian + xfce

Note: this may not look like this any more:

Create icons for things you want quick access to:

Debian doesn't give you sudo by default so run this:

Then log out and in because that changed stuff that needs to occur on login...

This is how I get ssh access.

Then apt install openssh-server. Run `ip a` to see what your ip address is, pop it in your current /etc/hosts as 'v', then from the host:

s@s:~/pl$ ssh v

Linux s 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (2024-11-22) x86_64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;

the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the

individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent

permitted by applicable law.

Last login: Tue Dec  3 13:56:37 2024 from 192.168.122.1

s@s:~$ ll

-bash: ll: command not found

s@s:~$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

s@s:~$ flatpak install chromium codium

Looking for matches…

And you're away! With constant reauthentication prompts...

Help is here: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3001#issuecomment-2098981907

It's a via-ssh security policy! You must delete this part of this file:

The issue is with the subject.local == true condition on line 7 in /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.rules

To edit that you'll need to apt install - and learn the insert-type-escape-:wq-enter basics of:

vim 

And then here's more necessities to apt install:

easyeffects pipewire ffmpeg mplayer

Also, before making a mess that might not work out, you can snapshot the whole system at the lvm level by:

sudo systemctl isolate rescue.target

Vanishing you into a black void!
The filesystem is still mounted, since that is where the system is...
But as long as nothing much is happening...

sudo lvcreate -L 10G -s -n root_snapshot /dev/t-vg/root

And back:

sudo systemctl isolate rescue.target

Or if you are still working virtually and converted the target disk image to qcow2, you could use those snapshots.

The mess that might not work out:

apt install podman-compose

sudo ln -s $(which podman) /usr/local/bin/docker

In fact, just don't do any of the above. But know that it's possible.

This is how you get docker on debian trixie, from a docker.com software source, which is a big deal bug I guess :

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

sudo adduser s docker # and relogin

in .bashrc

I do this from the comfort of my main computer via ssh.

A fork holds up the floppy laptop screen, asleep.

Soon it'll be a second monitor and a working mic.

My summer typewriter.

I wander off.

Good luck.