Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:49:07 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 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
I repeat, no EUFI. IMO its just something else to suffer bit rot from a
stray alpha particle. You've not been told recently that dd-wrt is my
guard dog, with very sharp teeth. I have not been touched in 24 years.
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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