Saturday, June 08, 2019

The Sid Week

So, finally, Debian won... Sorry Void.
This past week installed Debian Sid on both the T60p and the T43, on the latter one, the little lappie that still delivers and that had its guts cleansed, installed i3, just for shit and giggles.
Boy oh boy, I have to say that I love that Window Manager...
Certainly see the myself using it a lot on the near future.
Also, I love how the T60p looks in this picture.

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Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Void Linux on The Thinkpad T43

After de-gunking the hell out of it, installed Void (once again), just for shit and giggles.
No problem at all with the install, running XFCE, of course.
Now, I have to get somethings up and running on the little lappie... Will see if I have time next week.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Void Linux + Thinkpad T60p: Sort of Fail


Installed Void Linux today, this time on the T60p, everything went A Ok with the installation, even encrypting the whole disk, on a LVM, like I said, the whole thing reminds me a lot to the FreeBSD/ OpenBSD installer, the "hardest" part is the partitioning.
Anyways, after the base install is done, mandatory reboot, login, even with encryption, everything kosher.
So, boot and on we go to the updates!
After a xbps-install -Suv and downloading some 500 MB of updates, another reboot, and now things went to hell...

Booting passes the encryption, and the login manager pops up A Ok... Login works; but...
After that X dies on me, with an error message like this:

nm-dispatcher: req:1 'hostname' : new request (0 scripts)
nm-dispatcher: req:1 'hostname' : completed: no scripts

Tried re-booting using different kernels, killing Network Manager from a Virtual Console, Ctrl + Alt + Backspace, etc...
Nothing, the whole thing just dies right there.
A real bummer... No more time right now to see what a fuck is wrong with this.

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Void Linux On The Thinkpad T43




Installed Void Linux (32 bits XFCE) on the T43 today.
It took about 40 minutes, no problem whatsoever.
Resource usage is minimal (I'm running on a non encrypted file system, tho), RAM usage is about 200 MB after booting.
Suspend works Ok.
Next step, or experiment, will be making an encrypted install.

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