Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 17:11:26 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
Alan McConnell's responses are indented and begin with >.
> From: "Brian" <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Brian's resonses are not indented.
>
> > Yep. I have been back to my Jessie in the meantime, and run os-prober.
> > I didn't attempt to copy down on a piece of paper what it wrote; trust me
> > that it was unenlightening garbage.
> Ah. That's good. Your E-mail reader seems to respect my indentations. Others
> don't, alas. Do you perchance use mutt?
Perchance.
> What is "unenlightening" to you may not be unenlightening to others;
> trust me on that. "garbage" is *your* value judgement;
> No, I'm going to insist on my "garbage" denotation. Since I have a very
> acceptable way of going from one OS to another, your input on what os-prober
> returned to me is of little interest to me, and much less to the other members
> of this E-list, I'm sure.
You can insist on what you want. It is easy when only you know what the
the output is.
>
> But I'd like to defend what Lisi calls a "kludge". Here is what I do: when I
> boot, or reboot my machine, if I do nothing I get my Jessie, which is what I
> want. If I want to go to Windoze, I gotta hold the F12, as Felix Mieta taught
> me several moons ago, and then I get put into a nice menu: Choose the boot
> manager. I use my Arrow keys to get to Windows boot manager, and voila! in a
> few seconds I'm in Windoze. Not so difficult after all. And I would think that
> an expert programmer, which I used to be but am not any more, could put those
> few simple steps into a "first of all" window. Maybe a simple grub file?
That's fine; it does what you want and will serve you well. Stick with
it. but forget about involving GRUB.
> We Debian users yearn for the day when copy 'n paste and USB sticks are
> invented. It will make things so much easier to move information (which
> is severely lacking from you in this thread) about.
> Yes. If I could move stuff from my Windows OS to my Jessie, and vice
> versa, that would be a big help. Any suggestions from anyone about that?
> Linux used to be able to go into MS-DOS and put files there and get files
> out of there. Has anyone any information on that?
I rather think there is an answer in the response you quoted.
> > > Should you be game to try installing Jessie again, you might try a network
> > > installation started via a Stretch installer.
> > Jeez! I can't even run X11 on my present install(*) let alone get on
> > line.
> That situation has changed as of just an hour ago. I did a reinstall of
> xorg(or maybe it was x11), and my 'startx', from my old wheezy(fortunately
> saved) worked, after I'd done a few tweeks to my .xinitrc. I tried my
> old beloved sawfish(now wmctl) but that didn't work as well as metacity.
Good. (Your technique is extraordinary but comments on it are outside
the scope of this thread).
> > (*) Does anyone here know how to create a .Xauthority file? That is one of the
> > things the Jessie installer failed to provide me with.
>
> You've asked this five months ago:
> I did indeed. That was before my old machine gave up the ghost. I am
> impressed, Brian, that you keep such careful track of me.
I have a reasonably good memory. It was GNOME not installing libreoffice
which triggered the connections. So unusual. You never responded to that
either at the time it was pointed out.
> My final problem is: how to get my Jessie to get on line. I don't think this is
> anything anyone here can help me with, since I live in a retirement community
> which has a huge contract with Comcast. I called a tech person here, and he gave me
> a username and password which got me, and keeps me, online . . . but only for the
> Windoze side. I gotta do some exploring to see if I can make this work with Jessie.
I'm confident you are resourceful and will manage.
--
Brian.
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