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Notes while replacing my Debian by LMDE. |
Notes while replacing my Debian by LMDE. |
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<br>This included recovery of some settings so those are not notes for an install from scratch. |
<br>This included recovery of some settings so those are not notes for an install from scratch. |
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See http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php |
See http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php |
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* continue installation |
* continue installation |
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* inject proper config in /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab <br>First I mount /home in /home.old (mkdir /home.old) so I can access both fresh user homedir and old one, then move content of /home into /home.old and change fstab to mount on /home next time |
* inject proper config in /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab <br>First I mount /home in /home.old (mkdir /home.old) so I can access both fresh user homedir and old one, then move content of /home into /home.old and change fstab to mount on /home next time |
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LMDE is based on Debian testing but with some delay and I had quickly the issue that my chromium profile was saved by a chroimum version newer than the one in LMDE repos. |
LMDE is based on Debian testing but with some delay and I had quickly the issue that my chromium profile was saved by a chroimum version newer than the one in LMDE repos. |
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And to use Jessie repo e.g.: |
And to use Jessie repo e.g.: |
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apt-get install chromium/jessie |
apt-get install chromium/jessie |
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| + | etckeeper : store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs |
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| + | to save /etc with git |
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| + | intel-microcode : Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs |
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| + | to fix some warnings at boot time about some missing ucode: |
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| + | platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading intel-ucode/06-2a-07 (not found?) |
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Revision as of 00:57, 2 April 2014
Intro
Notes while replacing my Debian by LMDE.
This included recovery of some settings so those are not notes for an install from scratch.
LMDE 201403
Installation
See http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Linux Mint has a nice graphical tool for manual repartitioning but not yet LMDE...
Install LMDE with manual partitioning
- it tells us we should mount target partition ourselves under /target
- crypsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 sda1_crypt # has to be the same ref as in the crypttab later
- mount /dev/sda1_crypt /target
- continue installation
- inject proper config in /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab
First I mount /home in /home.old (mkdir /home.old) so I can access both fresh user homedir and old one, then move content of /home into /home.old and change fstab to mount on /home next time
Add Debian repos
LMDE is based on Debian testing but with some delay and I had quickly the issue that my chromium profile was saved by a chroimum version newer than the one in LMDE repos.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list :
deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
We need some pinning to avoid jessie taking over the LMDE repositories. The problem is that they have both the exact same keywords:
$ apt-cache policy [...] 500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest// testing/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main 500 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
So we can only differentiate by origin:
/etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-package-repositories.pref:
+Package: * Pin: origin ftp.be.debian.org Pin-Priority: 400
And to use Jessie repo e.g.:
apt-get install chromium/jessie
Install software
First ones are:
etckeeper : store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs
to save /etc with git
intel-microcode : Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
to fix some warnings at boot time about some missing ucode:
platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading intel-ucode/06-2a-07 (not found?)