On Tuesday 02 April 2019 15:55:52 Brian wrote: > On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 14:08:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > Greetings, old man. > > > I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and > > burnt 4 copy's of the buster netinstall image to a series of them. > > 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. They know > the technology is reliable and provides a bootable image. The other > 1% takes a different path which, very often, involves other people > in some work - like posting to -user.
Old asus mobo, m2n-sli-deluxe, has no biit from usb in the bios. :( > > But I can't get any of them to boot. > > > > Does old, these are at least 5 years old, cd'r media go bad? > > > > However the sha256sum's of both the file and the just burnt /dev/sr0 > > match. This is the 5th burn attempted. > > > > 4 hours later, it actually booted, so something that looks a teeny > > bit like stretch is now installed on a different drive. Hard to > > tell with gnome for a desktop, and the Konsole available there has > > been severely emasculated of anything that looks like session tabs. > > I have at least 15 tabs on 4 of my 10 workspaces here on wheezy, So > > as yet, I feel like I'm on windows-3.0. > > A fraction of the 1% inevitably has something disparaging to say to > try to take the edge off their initial out-moded choice of boot > medium. > > [snip] > > > Config roadblocks are, switching to tde for a desktop, can't find > > the tools to do that, and getting my email corpus copied across so I > > have continuity there. The rest I can probably muddle thru or ask > > more detailed questions. And eventually you can quit hassling me to > > update. :) > > Update? You are moving on to buster? Or is that a step too far? Until Buster is official, thats a step too far. This is my main house box. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
