[mdlug] Bringing up Linux with Suckless Init plus daemontools-encore

[JeremyBekka C]

Hi Steve,

Just wanted to update you on the progress of my plop linux install. I
decided to not try it on my laptop because I couldn't figure out what was
causing the problem since I don't have a firewall installed. Further more,
Virtualbox will not run on that computer right now, I can't remember what
the exact error was. That computer does not have the hardware VM assist
anyway, so its probably best to not use it for this.

So, I started working on my home desktop computer. I did have one problem
but I figured it out and now have Plop installed on my VM. The problem that
I ran into was when I went to tar the plop-linux-desktop file to /mnt/xfer
all would start working but then part way through the process it stopped
coping the files because the device did not have enough room. I solved this
problem by making a larger virtual hard drive (15gb hda1, 30gb swap), and
everything worked just fine. I had previously tried a partition of 2gb hda1
and 6gb swap setup but the same problem occurred. So, next thing on my list
is to do the Suckless install.

Thanks,

Jeremy

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 21:40:49 -0400
> JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to help here.
> >
> > I am running out of space in /tmp on the host. Here are the results
> > of the command you gave me:
> >
> > df -h /tmp
> > Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda5       6.1G  5.3G  411M  93% /
>
> This explains the failure to be able to put the ISO on /tmp/xfer. Your
> root partition has only 411MB left.
>
> I'd suggest you get a 16GB thumb drive, put the ISO on *that*, and
> sshfs to *that*. I'm pretty sure that will do the trick.
>
> Or, if you have another hard disk hanging around, stuff it in the box,
> partition and mount it, and put the ISO on *that*.
>
>
> >
> > I am not really sure what to do with the sshfs problem. I have never
> > done anything with SSH on this computer. Everything is default from
> > Openrc Manjaro. I checked to see if I have sshfs installed and I do.
> > I tried to mount a couple of different directories but got the same
> > results. I changed the user ID to root and jeremy at manjaro with no
> > luck. I am not sure what else to do since I have never done anything
> > with ssh before. I will do some searching and see what I can come up
> > with.
>
> For one thing, just try ssh'ing into the box. That will tell you if
> it's a basic ssh problem or if it's something with sshfs.
>
> Also, the firewall could be getting in the way. I don't remember the
> right nmap commands, but you could take a closer look at what's really
> going on at port 22. Or, perhaps you could disconnect *everything* from
> the Internet for a few minutes, shut down the firewall, and try again.
>
> There are a million things that could cause this stuff, and you can
> just use the process of elimination to keep cutting the root cause
> scope in half.
>
> HTH,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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