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 > 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 > > >
