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What /var/logs do I need to look at to see if my hard drive is failing? Debian-based
Justin Campbell
Use smartctl
Lucas Robinson
shout out to the user who recommended Fedora Kinoite to me recently: thanks dude, you're the best. i've slowly switched all my stuff from kde neon and it works really great for me. ostree is the future.
Xavier Clark
Shit. It's for my raspberry pi, and smartctl isn't native for that. Any other options?
Brandon Cook
Smartmontools isn't packaged for ARM? The only thing I can think of then is to run dmesg and see if there's any I/O errors. If there isn't it's probably fine.
Camden Young
Literally whom is that and why are they doing the King Barnett pose?
/etc/apt/sources.list deb deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free >I feel like a retard If it took you more than 10 seconds then yes.
Brayden Bailey
To be fair it's a bit difficult to do that without working wifi. Doable but difficult. Debian makes these things needlessly overcomplicated.
Adam Bailey
Already tried it, my shit-top's wifi chip wasn't included. I ended up having to clone it from github.
Adam Rivera
If I want to run applications (in this case is snapd) in an isolated environment and allow the app to make changes only inside it, is there any viable alternative to a virtual machine? Could I use chroot? I've read that it's hard to make chroot or containers (dock.io) just werk with some applications.
That's because kids these days don't like to read anymore. wiki.debian.org/Firmware Even the installer asks you if you want to enable non-free repositories if it detects your hardware will not work. But I'm glad you finally got it working, user.
Gavin Barnes
you made it farther then probably 90% of people that try and install debian, congratz
Gabriel Perez
Sorry, I thought you were the same user. Well, anyway.
Gabriel White
It's easy to make docker work with most applications. The app supports Debian or Ubuntu? Just start with a Dockerfile with that distro as a base and install all of the crap the app needs: FROM debian
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install blah blah
CMD my-app
Now build it: docker build -t local/my-app
Now run it: docker run -d --name my-app local/my-app
