On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:53:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:49:40 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > So 26th reinstall attempt, following David's instructs to do an ssh > > > from another machine to install > > > > So can we see the copy and paste of this first screen that you have > > a problem with? > yes, the list server for debian-user see's the attachment and apparently > sends the whole msg to /dev/null. Neither msg has come back in aound 6 > hours. > > > > > So, how to I do a text copy/paste from that .png so I can insert the > > > cogent parts of the text in an email msg? > > > > I recommend not doing that at all and going with the text mode over > > SSH, because you are never going to be able to get non-text > > attachments to this list and it just seems harder in general. > > > > Cheers, > > Andy > Thats what I thought I was doing, by opening a konsole on the client > machine, but when I saved the screenshot, it was a png. x was running on > the client machine, so there needs to be a method to make it text also. > The installer was started in expert text mode, but ssh apparently > overrides that somehow when it finds x running on the client. Should I > have been running the client w/o x or wayland? I am not even sure how to > switch vt's away from x to whatever #2 or #3 is called. >
Ctrl-alt-F1, F2 I think Part of this at least is why I suggested using text mode install directly on the machine if you could. Graphical expert mode would probably work as well and you could save the screenshots but I prefer completely text mode to be sure not to load problematic graphics. Andy > 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, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > > >
