On 09/22/2024 08:04 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 21 Sep 2024 at 07:03:58 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:*SNIP*
Tell me that with a straight face when you pass 80 ;)!
[I haven't seen that set of screens in at least 5 years.]
I recalled a "SUCESSFUL INSTALL" [sic] status report from May 2022,
and also thought you had restarted installing about 3 months ago.
Perhaps I was assuming too much.
Paraphrasing someone "To laugh or to cry, that is the question". ;}
About 15 years ago I was asked to tutor a young man who should have been
in high school. I knew that he was clinically ADHD. After only a few
weeks I thought I was "looking in a mirror". Referral to a psychologist
resulted in receiving a tentative diagnosis of being ADHD myself (didn't
meet all criteria due to age).
I do hyper-focus and can be easily distracted.
A primary deficiency of Debian documentation is lack of indexes [despite
having file titles of form index.html ].
[q.v.
https://differencesfinder.com/index-vs-table-of-contents-key-differences-explained/
]
As to the referenced "SUCCESSFUL INSTALL":
1. that specific install used only installer defaults.
2. that machine, with no valuable data, was for experiments.
My current goal to multi-boot my primary machine without clobbering
existing valuable data (even if that data has been backed-up).
*A* current question is how to install a "dual-boot" or "multi-boot"
system. Debian users make a strong distinction between the two.
Though trying to be exhaustive, "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
suffers from lack of an index.
"The beginner’s handbook", though having some organizational advantages
and a large number of installer screen images, is aimed at very raw
newbies. It has minimal coverage of "dual-boot".
I don't have the programming expertise to contribute that way. I'll
continue creating a TOC for the type of document I'd like to see.
More later.
