Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT 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?
>
Actually I did better than that, I shut down and ripped it out to a table
and re-arranged ALL the drive cables and got rid of 3 drives and about 5
feet of power cable splitters but lost 3 fans cuz their 3 pin plugs
aren't compat with the 4 pinners on this 2 yo mobo. I also moved the raid
drives which were in a place in the rack w/o any cooling, about a foot
higher in the tower in a 4 slot cage with a big fan for a front door.
And while it will boot from the selected drive, I'm still running on the
old ibstall because I cannot mount /dev/md0p1 over the home diretory when
booted to the latest install. claims the mount is already done which it
isn't, or the mount point is busy. Presumably because I'm logged into the
non-raid /home/gene on the booted drive. I cobbled up a UUID based mount
line in /etc/fstab, but apparently the raid10 will not assemble.
I can mount the new drive from this boot, so what should I look at to get
it to pre-assemble and mount /dev/md0p1 and ditto for md1, the swap thats
on the raid10 too, all before I log in so its not busy?
Thanks all, I think I'm making progress. But apparently I'm a new bee at
raid stuff. Hmmm, I just noted that htop is showing zero swap. Checking
fstab against blkid, shows swap with a totally different blkid.
I'll see if I can do a copy paste to fix that. Yup, a root swapon -av and
now I have swap. And /opt was missing too, its on the raid but empty so
that was added by copy/paste. A simple mount /opt fixes that.
Now, are these bklid's stable enough I can mount the bigger drive and
just copy this fstab over the existing one?
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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