forum.excito.org

OK after a awful lot of cleaning work (the wiki was filled with more than 500k spam articles and users) the wiki is back online on https://wiki.excito.org with proper locks in place. Let's hope it'll hold better.

ahoff wrote: 14 Apr 2025, 13:39 Nice.
I've found the site to be very slow lately. Hope it gets a little faster on your server.

Yes apparently it was the wiki that was causing issues. I don't know if I'll restart it or not as most of its contents are outdated anyway...

Hello all,

In the last few days there has been some changes regarding hosting of excito websites (mainly forum, wiki and install server). I've managed to have the excito.org domain transferred to me ; I will move all service on my own server for time being on this domain. forum.excito.org is now ...

What is the delay with renewing the domain? Is there anything we can do to help, such as crowdfunding?

The excito domains (including excito.com and excito.org) is owned by B2BCS company in Canada, they are responsible for renewing the domains (I don't have access to that). They don't mind paying ...

While you recover the domain, where can we find b3-bookworm-install-1.0.zip?

I have setup install.excito.com to the same location, install files are available at http://install.excito.com/latest/b3/

I don't see the install script in this image here: https://github.com/Excito/bookworm-image ...

OldB3User wrote: 01 Apr 2024, 10:48 Is anyone else getting a 403 error when trying to update from repo.excito.org?

Yes I'm aware, domain was parked, we are working on it to get it back online.

I only can install Bookworm with 10Gb space.
I want to use the whole disk with Debian bookworm.

As stated in the install.ini file :
## size (default: 10; minimal 8): size of system partition to create in GiB (if applicable). Use 'full' to use
## all the available space.
You need to set size ...

What OS are you guys running? i am used to run Debian based distros so the Debian image for B3 is most natural if i decide to start tinkering and go down that road.
With the Debian image, will i get the same web user interface, services and experience as with original Excito right after install ...

Hello,


Thinking of installing an SSD. Is it something i should think about if doing so?
Can i change some settings to prolong the life of the SSD, or some other settings that puts B3/SSD to sleep when it's not needed, fast access time is not of importance in this case.

Using SSD in a B3 is ...

It's much easier to download the bookworm image and remove the image parameter in the install.ini file

Clive wrote: 29 Jun 2023, 15:17 I just performed the upgrade as listed at the top of the page. My previous B3 install was pretty much vanilla, so I am not sure why it failed.

I did test the upgrade from a vanilla bullseye install and had no issue. Let us know if you find something !

nmichen wrote: 27 Jun 2023, 16:07 I ran the update track from the previous version and it all went smoothly except for the kernel package where apt believes 1:5.10.xyz is newer than 6.1, so has to force a "downgrade" to 6.1.

I've updated the upgrade instructions in the first post with a manual upgrade of the kernel.

Clive wrote: 29 Jun 2023, 16:34 ..also, just to check, your rescue USB doesn't automatically reformat and re-install the B3 ? I just want to get in there to see what has gone wrong.

You need to edit the install.ini file and remove the image parameter. Then the system will switch to rescue mode

It's killed my B3, it won't reboot... :( Stays at the purple light, although lots of disk activity beforehand whilst attempting to boot.

Any ideas ? As much as I love my ancient B3, I am not sure how much energy I have to try and fix it....

It's pingable, but I am not able to ssh into it ...

nmichen wrote: 27 Jun 2023, 22:11 yes, CONFIG_DM_THIN_PROVISIONING is the one!

Version 6.1.35-2 is pushed with the configuration change.