Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 19:53:20 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:49:40 EDT Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > > So 26th reinstall attempt, following David's instructs to do an ssh
> > > from another machine to install
> >
> > So can we see the copy and paste of this first screen that you have
> > a problem with?
> yes, the list server for debian-user see's the attachment and apparently
> sends the whole msg to /dev/null. Neither msg has come back in aound 6
> hours.
> >
> > > So, how to I do a text copy/paste from that .png so I can insert the
> > > cogent parts of the text in an email msg?
> >
> > I recommend not doing that at all and going with the text mode over
> > SSH, because you are never going to be able to get non-text
> > attachments to this list and it just seems harder in general.
> >
> Thats what I thought I was doing, by opening a konsole on the client
> machine, but when I saved the screenshot, it was a png. x was running on
> the client machine, so there needs to be a method to make it text also.
> The installer was started in expert text mode, but ssh apparently
> overrides that somehow when it finds x running on the client. Should I
> have been running the client w/o x or wayland? I am not even sure how to
> switch vt's away from x to whatever #2 or #3 is called.
I don't understand what you're writing here. The screenshot shows that
you were looking at a screenful of *text*, with some File/Edit/View/…
menu items at the top that look graphical.
You can see that the listing is text, because the <Go Back> "button"
has these "< >" angle brackets. If it was a real GUI, you'd see a
button with some sort of relief, colour or shading to distinguish it
from the background.
My instructions were "From your xterm, you can cut and paste text in
the usual manner", and there's a world of difference between that and
taking a screenshot. If you cut and paste, you can place the text in
a post here, and we can quote it, copy it ourselves, and so on.
You cut and paste by dragging the mouse over the text, and then
clicking a different mouse button to paste it into a file that you
can archive as part of your installation log. I keep a log for each
of my disks, with partition listings from fdisk, gdisk and parted
(they yield a variety of formats).
Cheers,
David.
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