00:12:48Doranwen is ready to tear her hair out trying to find a guide for her specific case - migrating from legacy boot on one comp to uefi on another...
00:13:06<Doranwen>Everything's either migrate uefi to uefi, or convert in place.
00:13:28<Doranwen>Do such guides actually exist?
00:17:57<Notrealname1234>Yes, a guide for everything exists
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00:40:11<Doranwen>Would've been helpful if they'd actually said *where* to find such a guide, because my searches aren't turning it up. :P
00:41:06<fireonlive>hmm, migrate in place and then move hdd maybe? or configure new pc to legacy boot
00:54:52<Doranwen>I can't actually migrate in place because the clone of that drive won't boot - GPT with legacy boot and the BIOS is complaining about it
00:55:10<Doranwen>I've no idea *how* the original drive booted all this time, then - and it's just about dead
00:55:51<Doranwen>I've got a good clone that's relatively recent, and a more-or-less complete backup file-wise that's VERY recent, but which won't work for booting - and neither one do I want to risk in trying to set up this system over again
00:56:20<Doranwen>Was going to try copying existing partitions on the clone but I need to set up the uefi stuff right on the new disk
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00:56:37<Doranwen>The swap partition's plenty big so if I have to make it a bit smaller to compensate for lost space, that's not an issue
00:56:59<Doranwen>But exactly *how* to do this process I'm not quite sure
00:57:44<Doranwen>I've got it booted off a live DVD (not the OS I've been using, but it's got gparted and was close at hand so I used that) with the new (blank) drive in the tower and the good clone connected via a docking station, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure out the next step
00:58:18<Doranwen>And the hdd that's in the tower and what was used was 4TB, most of it all one partition, so legacy boot isn't an option as far as I can tell…
00:59:21<Doranwen>If I have to, I'll install the OS afresh but I really don't want to go through the process of having to install every bit of software I had set up and everything… if there's *any* way to avoid that I want to take it
01:00:25<nyany>Considering the time and effort you've already expended attempting to avoid a fresh install, perhaps you really should consider this as the more viable alternative
01:00:30<thuban>Doranwen: what distro do you use again? most package managers should be able to export/import a list of installed packages
01:01:01<Doranwen>I can't boot the OS at all to do anything with it because of the GPT/legacy boot combo that it didn't like
01:01:01<thuban>(obvs if you have a lot of locally-built or otherwise non-package-managed stuff this won't work that well, but)
01:01:16<Doranwen>And this is - you're going to think I'm crazy - a Mint 13 system, lol
01:01:20Doranwen has good reasons for keeping one around
01:02:13<Doranwen>I'd migrate a lot of my work on it to a VM but I have IDJC set up and configured on there and everyone in the family likes listening to my station and I cannot make IDJC work in a VM no matter what I've tried
01:03:46<Doranwen>(The main reason for using it in the first place was due to a font - yes, a font - that worked perfectly on Mint 13 and on every other OS and version after that the line spacing was completely messed up - of course, that font was what I used for a TON of materials I created and sell online, and was not about to go change them all. Hence using Mint 13 for that purpose. IDJC happened there because I didn't need the sound for anything on
01:03:48<Doranwen>that system and it sort of knocks everything else out, using JACK.)
01:04:41<Doranwen>nyany: But shouldn't there be a way to just copy the partitions over? At this point it would still take less time than setting everything up, hoping I've remembered all the installed programs, etc.
01:05:02<Doranwen>The question is exactly how to set up the partitions and run something to point to the right spot so that it'll launch the OS.
01:05:26<nyany>Well, I'll leave this with you in case you do change your mind late
01:05:27<nyany>r
01:05:31<nyany>sudo apt list --installed
01:05:52<nyany>returns a list of all packages that have been installed using apt/apt-get
01:06:10<Notrealname1234>might wanna update them all too
01:06:20<Doranwen>How do I run that when I can't boot the OS?
01:06:43<nyany>oh right, you're up shit creek
01:06:49<nyany>hm
01:07:10<Doranwen>I cloned it with ddrescue, but the clone is GPT with legacy boot, and I have no idea how it worked on the original drive because the clone absolutely won't boot, gives the error message about that
01:07:28<Doranwen>This comp *can* do UEFI fine, I got it in probably 2016 or so
01:07:35<nyany>does the clone boot on the current machine or are you attempting to move it to another machine
01:07:38<Doranwen>I don't think I set it up myself
01:07:50<Doranwen>Iirc someone who got me the tower did the initial install
01:08:04<Doranwen>No, the clone doesn't boot because it complains that it's GPT-formatted and can't boot legacy
01:08:35<nyany>Can you not simply enable legacy boot or is that defeating the true purpose of your intentions
01:08:44<Doranwen>It's set to legacy boot
01:08:50<Doranwen>It doesn't like that the partition table is gpt
01:08:56<Doranwen>And won't go any further
01:09:13<Doranwen>I never get any screens besides that error msg
01:09:44<Notrealname1234>Restore hard drive
01:10:24<thuban>Doranwen: i'm a little confused by your description of the situation.
01:11:09<Doranwen>Original hdd is basically dying/dead, I thought I could just plug a clone (made with ddrescue) in and it would boot, but it is giving me this error msg
01:11:16<thuban>do you have a new hard drive you want to partition, and a clone of the old hard drive off which you want to get the data? or are you trying to repartition the clone of the old drive?
01:11:22<Doranwen>So I bought a new hard drive
01:11:36<Doranwen>And *that* is what's in the tower now, that I need to partition
01:11:44<Doranwen>And copy the data partition off the clone onto it
01:11:55<thuban>ok
01:12:04<Doranwen>And make it UEFI this time so it won't have fits
01:12:25<Doranwen>Instead of trying to do legacy boot with a GPT hdd (that's 4TB, so gpt necessary)
01:13:04<thuban>partition the new drive just like you would for a fresh install (including your efi system partition), then instead of doing a fresh install copy the root partition from the clone to the root partition of your new drive
01:13:08<Doranwen>It's got one single data partition that's most of the drive, a swap one that's like 16 gigs or so, and of course the bios-grub one that isn't working
01:13:38<Doranwen>I don't remember why it didn't get a separate / from /home but it doesn't, they're all one partition
01:13:54<Doranwen>(Again, I did not set this up originally, so)
01:14:26<Doranwen>Will try that
01:17:06<Doranwen>It sounds simple, I was just getting overwhelmed by the complicatedness of the situation
01:18:17<thuban>https://superuser.com/questions/594203/how-to-copy-entire-linux-root-filesystem-to-new-hard-drive
01:18:49<Doranwen>All the guides suggest separate / and /home partitions, and I do *not* have that to work with, though - do I just set the one partition to be / and it'll automatically find /home where it should be?
01:18:57<Doranwen>I assumed I could just use GParted to copy the partition
01:21:29<Doranwen>…except this one's weird, there's no way to set an EFI system partition up :P
01:24:51<thuban>if you want you can create separate /home and / partitions, then copy home to the new /home and everything else to /, but if you do this you need to do your copy at the filesystem level, not the block level (ie not using gparted)
01:24:53<thuban>separating /home is a matter of taste for desktops imo, different distros have different conventions (i've never bothered)
01:25:00<Doranwen>Aha, scrolling down one of the secondary answers has a solution for that
01:25:15<Doranwen>Nah, separating /home and / isn't super important for this one - it's never going to be upgraded in place.
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01:25:54<Doranwen>If I ever abandon it and go to a new OS/version, I'll extra back up everything and start from scratch
01:29:06<thuban>i'm not sure what you mean by "there's no way to set an EFI system partition up"
01:29:18<Doranwen>The guide I was looking at had a way to just pick it from a dropdown
01:29:44<Doranwen>That this doesn't have - but the guide you linked does have - a little ways down - specifics on how to create the partition a bit more manually
01:30:04<Doranwen>Says to format it as fat32 and manage flags to boot and esp
01:30:27Doranwen has never had to create one outside of a distro installer which has the option in a dropdown, lol
01:30:37<Doranwen>Or at least, if I have, I don't remember it
01:30:44<thuban>that's not on the page i linked ?_?
01:30:46Doranwen clearly doesn't do this enough to remember
01:30:47<thuban>but it is correct
01:30:55<Doranwen>Oh wait, it's not
01:30:58<Doranwen>Sorry, wrong page
01:31:00<Doranwen>I thought it was yours
01:31:19<Doranwen>No, I did a search for how to set one up, forgot I had
01:32:38<Doranwen>Does it actually matter which order the data and swap are in?
01:32:48<thuban>no
01:33:30<Doranwen>I didn't think so
01:34:36<Doranwen>Thank you - it's copying over and finishing the formatting, I'm hopeful
01:35:26<Doranwen>It'll take a few hours to finish that
01:35:48<Doranwen>I'll go back to work on Yahoo Groups, lol
01:36:48Doranwen would like that done and uploaded *before* those drives start to fail, even if she *does* have backups
01:39:09<thuban>note that the efi system partition you've just created is empty, so you'll need to actually put a bootloader in it
01:39:38<Doranwen>Right, I was just trying to figure out how to do that
01:40:34<Doranwen>whether I need the live disc for the corresponding OS to do it from, or whether the current live disc can be used to do it from
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01:49:19<fireonlive>https://www.404media.co/email/d72b3844-9d62-4961-b52f-86ba9f237480/
01:49:19<fireonlive>>‘AI Instagram Influencers’ Are Stealing Women’s Bodies
01:49:20<Doranwen>…I'm having a hard time finding a guide that makes sense to me - most seem to be talking about dual-boot situations, adding boot options to an existing working system, etc.
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01:51:49<Doranwen>oof
01:51:55<Doranwen>not surprised, but yeah
01:53:15<Doranwen>thuban: is this guide about what I want to do, then? https://www.fosslinux.com/115040/a-complete-guide-to-installing-grub-bootloader-on-linux.htm
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01:56:29<fireonlive>https://www.404media.co/sansan-chicken-zoom-cashier/
01:56:36<fireonlive>i saw one about a dental clinic doing this
01:56:37<fireonlive>but huh
01:57:39<fireonlive>apparently it's happening in drive-thrus in the US as well; you get AI order takers, then someone overseas takes over if it gets confused/etc
01:57:48<fireonlive>(though this is a real person)
01:58:29<thuban>Doranwen: i would use this one: https://askubuntu.com/questions/88384/how-can-i-repair-grub-how-to-get-ubuntu-back-after-installing-windows
02:02:00<thuban>(since you've booted from a live disc, you want to make sure you change to the install on your filesystem before installing the bootloader, to reduce potential issues--the page you linked mentions this briefly, but only in the troubleshooting section and without adequately explaining it)
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02:03:26<fireonlive>why is the meeting ID and password right on the register 🤦
02:05:02<nyany>🙄
02:07:07<thuban>nb: i have never been in this specific situation, cannot guarantee compatibility, etc etc. since you have a copy of your old filesystem, if all else fails you can ask the package manager (on a live disc or a fresh install) what you had installed on it https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/580121/where-does-apt-or-dpkg-store-the-list-of-installed-packages
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03:57:26<fireonlive>when you typo `mdir` instead of `mkdir` and have no idea what the fuck you're looking at for a second
03:57:30<fireonlive>Can't open /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
03:57:30<fireonlive>Cannot initialize 'A:'
03:58:01<fireonlive>https://dl.fireon.live/irc/cf84f41afa78ce89/wut.png
04:04:19<nicolas17>fireonlive: what do you get if you typo 'sl' instead of 'ls'?
04:04:59<fireonlive>$ sl
04:04:59<fireonlive>zsh: command not found: sl
04:05:03<fireonlive>sadly no fun
04:06:48<nicolas17>you need to install sl then
04:06:54<nicolas17>distros should install it by default smh
04:07:43<fireonlive>i think one did but people got buttmad
04:07:49<fireonlive>could be wrong though!
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04:42:58<fireonlive>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/google-vids-is-googles-fourth-big-productivity-app-for-workspace/
04:43:04<fireonlive>Google Vids
04:44:38<nicolas17>> beagle, shibainu, quetzal, frigate, turaco, kakapo, cockatoo, puffin
04:44:43<nicolas17>these are codenames
04:44:52<nicolas17>what could be the next one in the list?
04:45:41<nicolas17>I'm looking through birds on wikipedia trying to figure it out (and it takes me 10000 HTTP requests to see if it's correct... assuming it's even deployed already)
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12:38:33<nulldata>XZ is back on GitHub https://github.com/tukaani-project
12:51:57<imer>https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d48f7e4ac273711518bf689f5c4 > The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.
12:51:58<imer>:D
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12:58:23<nyany>hm, i wonder why
13:21:45<f_>nyany: I also wonder why.
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14:19:34<@JAA>That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
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14:20:40<f_>JAA: Meh.
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14:35:07<nulldata>3 hosts of one of the affected SBNation podcasts did a live stream giving some information on what's going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aAWensLaYo
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15:03:46<nukke>Ok this is hilarious https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/twitters-clumsy-pivot-to-x-com-is-a-gift-to-phishers/
15:07:43<FireFly>oh yeah, it really is
15:08:37@JAA likes space-twitter.com in particular.
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15:51:01<steering>i can't believe there was no one involved in that process who pointed out what a stupid idea it was.
15:51:14<steering>then again, if they had they probably would've been fired for hurting someone's ego..
15:58:39<nulldata>https://www.today.com/video/whistleblower-claims-boeing-s-787-dreamliner-jets-are-flawed-208690245619
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16:00:53<nulldata>Another whistleblower from the same plant that the one who was suicided worked at
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16:47:14<fireonlive>THANKS
16:47:18<fireonlive>-Jia Tan
16:47:25<fireonlive>👏🏻
16:47:36<Notrealname1234>what
16:48:02<fireonlive>from imer's link earlier https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d48f7e4ac273711518bf689f5c4
16:48:47<fireonlive>nulldata: wonder if this whistleblower will "commit suicide"
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17:18:54<nicolas17>fireonlive: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/780cbf29d5a88db2b546e9b7b019c4c33ca72685
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17:37:20<fireonlive>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1777505144709550302.html
17:37:27<fireonlive>on SoS
17:37:50<fireonlive>nicolas17: awesome haha
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18:43:05<fireonlive>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/08/ms_dos_easter_egg/
18:43:08<fireonlive>boooo microsoft
18:47:35<nyany>lol
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20:09:01<nicolas17>oh I found the codename btw
20:09:13<nicolas17>> beagle, shibainu, quetzal, frigate, turaco, kakapo, cockatoo, puffin
20:09:22<nicolas17>the next one is peacock
20:09:35nicolas17 preemptively bonks fire_onlive
20:09:40<Notrealname1234>Peacock but remove pea
20:09:55nicolas17 bonks Notrealname1234
20:10:03<Notrealname1234>Coc-
20:10:34<fireonlive>nicolas17: 😵‍💫
20:10:43<fireonlive>:P
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20:25:05<nulldata>https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/microsoft-employees-exposed-internal-passwords-security-lapse/
20:27:35<fireonlive>https://support.google.com/a/answer/9105393
20:27:49<fireonlive>>Alert retention
20:27:49<fireonlive>>Alerts are retained in the alert center for approximately 10 years.
20:27:49<fireonlive>>Note: Starting in April, 2024, the retention period for alerts will be 6 months.
20:28:00<fireonlive>"oof ouchie my storage usage" ~ google these days
20:33:41<nulldata>Google's trying to find lost storage in the couch cushions
20:33:51<fireonlive>haha yes
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20:41:18<Notrealname1234>For fireonlive: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/297/355/cb3
20:42:41<fireonlive>🥺
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21:08:38<kiska>Damn US only sales https://server8.kiska.pw/uploads/7b7f67baa87bc1c6/image.png
21:09:54<fireonlive>:(
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21:33:07<nyany>kiska: damn that's hot
21:33:34<nyany>imagine all the por - i mean imPORtant archiving stuff i could store on there
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22:55:09<nulldata>imPORtaNt*
22:55:26<Notrealname1234>important is what you say dummy
22:56:12<nulldata>It's a lot of storage for Linux ISOs.
23:13:34<fireonlive>nyany: droves of gay pornogrpahic material
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