On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 15:17:00 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 11:13:45 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > Addendum: during my Jessie install, the install program commented at one > > point: > > "There doesn't seem to be any other OS on your system". Jeez!! I hope some > > maintainer reads this complaint and Debian works hard to make sure that the > > What is the exact name and version of this OS which is not found? > <LOL> Windows 10. If there is a more exact name, I don't know it.
Deconstruction of this statement follows: I do not know. I am unable to extract information from any OS. But I am really good at moaning about them. You will get no help from me, don't bother me. > > operation of installing a second OS(Linux) on a Windoze box is as easy and > > error-proof as it is possible to make it. > > 1. As a user do > > dpkg -l | grep grub > > Please post the output of this command. > > 2. Suppose there are four packages listed. As root do > > apt-get --reinstall install <package_name> > > for each package > > <package_name> is in the second column of the 'dpkg -l' output. > > So, for example > > apt-get --reinstall install grub-common > apt-get --reinstall install grub-pc > apt-get --reinstall install grub-pc-bin > apt-get --reinstall install grub2-common > > is what I would do on my machine. For the grub-pc reinstall please post > the lines which begin "Found ....." in the output. > > 3. As root run the command > > os-prober > > and post its output. > > Why? why all this? What good will it do? to anyone? To do this > I'd have > to get out of this URL(mail.his.com), shut down my Windoze, reboot > to Jessie, > copy the output you are requesting to a piece of paper, and then get > back here.(*) Deconstruction of this statement follows: You are asking questions. Questions are awkward - you have to give answers; I do not want to participate in giving answers. Just take some notice of me and give me what I want without all this palaver. > May I ask: are you the Debian installation maintainer? if you are, > I'd be > happy to work with you. Having chosen to post to debian-user you cannot even work with the process here. What chance would there be of a working relationship if you thought you were talking to the Debian Leader. > (*) Many years ago, when I ran a dual boot machine of Linux and MS-DOS, I > used to be > able to mount the MS-DOS partition from my Linux system, and copy file to and > from it. > I'm going to try that, when next I (re)boot into Jessie. Deconstruction of this statement follows: Redirection. I've managed to avoid answering anything but I can still go down fighting and introduce something irrelevant. Do I have to stew in my own juice?
