On Sunday 11 September 2016 20:51:50 Brian wrote: > 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?
And to achieve all this rudeness he hijacked mudongliang's thread and as a result mudongliang has still had no answers. :-( But I'm forgetting. Nothing and no-one else matters compared with Alan. :-( I'm off to try and answer mudongliang, but I fear that I can't because I don't think I know the answer. But at least it should revive his thread. Lisi
