Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote:
> > > > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you use text
> > > > > > mode
> > > > > > locally, rather than remotely. Hence the instructions I have
> > > > > > been
> > > > > > posting. However, it's difficult to write those instructions
> > > > > > for
> > > > > > someone to follow when it appears that they have forgotten how
> > > > > > to cut and paste text from a terminal screen into a file or an
> > > > > > editor's buffer, or think that you can cut and paste from a
> > > > > > PNG.
> > > >
> > > > That limit is very easy to see, there is no mouse in those remote
> > > > text
> > > > screens to use to highlight what you might want to paste into nano
> > > > and
> > > > keep.
> > >
> > > Gene, come on. You know how to select and paste out of an xterm. It
> > > does not matter what that xterm is doing, whether it is displaying a
> > > file of locally stored bible notes, running the Debian installer or
> > > running minicom into the serial port of a nuclear power station's
> > > control panel. It displays text. You select the text with a mouse
> > > and paste that into a another document.
> > >
> > > Why is getting you to paste textual data from one terminal window
> > > into another (or a text editor or email or whatever) so
> > > monumentally difficult?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andy
> >
> > Very simple Andy, the vt1-2-3-4, what have you text login does NOT use
> > the mouse, so there is no way to highlight what you want to copy/paste.
> > Why is that so hard to understand as the reason I can't post what I
> > see?
> >
> > In a gfx login I use konsole simply because its the most full feature,
> > bug free terminal software linux offers. The only other term proggy I
> > see in the menu's here it termit, which up to now I'v never used. So
> > let me look at it before I hit the reset botton after plugging in the
> > optical drive with the d-i in it. Aha! it uses the mouse to highlight
> > text on screen, and pastes it into nano AS TEXT. Marvelous. but will
> > it run on an alt+ctrl+f2 screen.
> >
> > no.
> >
> > So what is this "xterm" you speak of that is supposed to be able to do
> > all this magic stuff.
> >
> > Let me go look at synaptic on the remote machine I've been using to see
> > if its installable. yes, but it tab-less, no menus at all. but I just
> > discovered whatever terminal is std in that bullseye install, xfce I
> > think, CAN use the mouse to copy text so I'll use that for the next
> > remote screen install. The drive is partitioned, but partition mount
> > points have not been defined.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> And I'm back from install 28, booted to the old install, the bios cannot
> see the drive I just installed to. So whats next? update the bios?
> I'll make mnt points and look at it. but the install went nicely. It just
> won't even see it to boot it. Can I shut down and swap cables to make
> this drive the first plug rather than the 5th of 6 mainboard plugs?
>
>
Gene,
Check which drive is actually set to boot first in the boot order.
If you've installed with UEFI, then make sure that you're set to boot a UEFI
disk.
Andy Cater
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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