[sf-lug] debian base system (initially without X11)...etc

[aaronco36]

Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote at [01]:
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I'm willing to bet that your Debian system will show at least two more
valid network interfaces in the 'ip a' output, beyond the built-in
'lo'=loopback virtual network interface that's internal to all TCP/IP
hosts.  They're just unconfigured.
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...
...
You _could_ fix up your installed system after the fact.
Debian recommends this: 
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_modern_network_configuration_without_gui
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Excellent help in providing that network assistance in [01] :-)
IMO, the Debian Reference guide [02] _continues_ to be incredibly helpful!

OTOH and IMHO, I'm wondering whether Rick M's Linuxmafia.com 
'Knowledgebase-Debian' [03] could use some major revisions to better 
assist others such as myself and perhaps a few others install and use Debian?
Cases in point.......
- The 'Installing and using Apache httpd 2.x on Debian' [04] is over a 
dozen years old, still mentions Debian woody, and also from what I've seen 
from that webpage and its links, didn't seem to anticipate the bots that 
are apparently _still_ slowing down linuxmafia.com [05] :-\
- The Debian Linux User's Guide by Dale Scheetz (Linux Press) [06] is two 
decades old (going all the way back to the days of Rick M's 
"hugin.imat.com"[07] maybe??) and covers setting-up the older PPP via 
'ifconfig'[08], as opposed to using the current 'ip a' to "show at least 
two more valid network interfaces" as specifically mentioned above.
- The versions of Debian listed at [09] were _all_ deprecated well over a 
decade ago, namely
~~~~ quoting from [09] ~~~~~~~
buzz (release 1.1)
rex (1.2)
bo (1.3)
hamm (2.0)
slink (2.1)
potato (2.2)
woody (3.0)  current "stable" branch
sarge (3.1)  current "testing" branch
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- The last listed link at [03] entitled 'Woody Non-vulnerabilities'[10] 
isn't even around anymore.
- There is also the 'Debian Tips' webpage from almost exactly 19 years ago 
[11] which among other antiquities, also mentions using Debian woody (and 
Debian 2.1 "Slink").

Just my own two cents on all that -- am ready to Duck Down as the fury 
flies All Around :-o

-A



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References
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[01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q4/013582.html
[02]https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/
[03]http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/
[04]http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/apache2.html
[05]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q4/013578.html
[06]http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/users-guide-edition2.html
[07]http://linuxmafia.com/hugin.html
[08]http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/users-guide-edition2.html#S6
[09]http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/tracks.html
[10]http://www.debian.org/security/nonvulns-woody
[11]http://linuxmafia.com/debian/tips
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According to Karsten MS's 
http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Linux/FAQs/partition.html this is something 
like a strating point of how you might want to minimally partition it for 
i386 Debian Stretch w/ LXQt, for i386 Devuan ASCII w/ LXQt, or even for 
i386 BL Helium w/ Openbox...

80GB PATA
--------------
/dev/sda1 ---> 500MB  /boot
/dev/sda2 ---> 70GB   /<root>
/dev/sda3 ---> 3000MB swap (3 x current physRAM)


aaronco36 at sdf.org