Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:57:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old. > > *10 > > I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard All three of them, actually ;-) Cheers -- t

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 13:06:40 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the > > mouse. > > charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm [ … ] > Description: General Purpose Mouse interface >

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old. *10 I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does. new fan

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, June 13, 2022 11:35:29 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > Let's get some actual numbers in here. From wikipedia: > > IBM PC with proprietary BIOS introduced: 1981 > Linus Torvalds begins writing Linux: 1991 Efforts started toward EFI (predecessor in some sense of UEFI) -- see below: 199

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote: > > new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux > > was first written... > If that is what they taught you in history, Michael, sue the the school.   *sigh* Let's ge

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread gene heskett
On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does. new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when li

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does. new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux was first written... So having tw

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Anssi Saari
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > IIRC, the bootable flag is pretty much irrelevant in Linux -- it doesn't have > to be set to boot from a partitions. Am I mis-remembering? I remember I once had an Intel motherboard where the BIOS wouldn't boot a partition if it wasn't set to bootable. But as you sa

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-12 18:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote: As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things working one at a time afterwards. Were I run

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the > mouse. charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm Package: gpm Version: 1.20.7-8 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Axel Beckert Installed-Size: 553 kB Pre-Depends: init-sy

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 17:00:42 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:20:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > > > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 11 June 2022 08:17:26 pm gene heskett wrote: > I tried to do that in gimp before I sent it, but all the menu's are > changed from what I am used to, I could select and save what I wanted, > clear the frame and paste what I'd outlined and saved, but I got the > whole thing back when I

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote: > As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk > thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things > working one at a time afterwards. Were I running into these kinds of hassles, that would

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:53:31 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/12/22 12:34, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > Thanks all, I think I'm making progress. But apparently I'm a new bee at > > > raid stuff. Hmmm, I just noted that htop is showin

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:20:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. > > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and,

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/22 12:41, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:42:06AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > If blkid is missing, so is lsblk, unicorn:~$ type blkid blkid is /sbin/blkid unicorn:~$ type lsblk lsblk is /bin/lsblk Betcha it's a PATH thing.

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-12 17:20, gene heskett wrote: I so want you to succeed and I can't be a lot of help. As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things working one at a time afterwards. mick -- Key ID

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/22 12:34, David Wright wrote: On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: Let me go look at synaptic on the remote machine I've been using to see if i

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:20:05 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. > > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, > > p

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root > pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup cuz everything > but synapti

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > Let me go look at synaptic on the remote machine I've been using to > > > see if its installable. yes, but it

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:49:03 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:49:07 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > And I'm back from install 28, booted to the old install, the bios > > > cannot see the drive I just

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 03:53:49 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200): > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole > >> and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably, keystrokes). Well, I gave up and did another 29t install, but in

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably, keystrokes).

OT: why (was: Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails)

2022-06-12 Thread rhkramer
I was going to restrain myself and not send this, but I succumbed ... sorry for the noise. On Sunday, June 12, 2022 03:53:49 AM Felix Miata wrote: > Why this tangent to Gene's foibles? I shouldn't do this, but ... (And no criticism intended of anyone, specifically Thomas Schmitt.) s/song/threa

Re: xterm. Was: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it comes to me that Debian has an official screenshot of one of my xterms. So here is an xterm with -bg wheat -fg black: https://screenshots.debian.net/shrine/screenshot/15899/simage/large-de6e648f9ed3746646ab2120ba5da1f0.png It is a bit higher than usual, to take all lines which i wanted

Re: xterm. Was: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either. The package xterm exists and has versions in all current releases of Debian. See: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xterm Try sudo apt-get install xterm or sudo apt install xterm > So I'll repeat, what is this mag

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ bash: xterm: command not found > > xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either. unicorn:~$ apt policy xterm xterm: Installed: 366-1+deb11u1 Candidate: 366-1+deb11u1 Version table: *** 366-1+deb11u1 500

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:21:50 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have > > > konsole and termit, and termit will work from x and give me m

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:21:50 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have > > konsole and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse > > driven copy/ paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > It does have efi, but its disabled in the bios. The "BIOS" of ASUS PRIME Z370-A II is EFI. (Unfortunate naming, indeed, as we normally use "BIOS" for legacy PC-BIOS, the one which boots by executing the x86 code in the MBR.) If you switched to legacy CSM mode (*), then

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Felix Miata
Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200): > Gene Heskett wrote: >> The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole >> and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/ >> paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors screen. > Ex

xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole > and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/ > paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors screen. Execute xterm & in one of the terminal windows which the p

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:53:13 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:13:38 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wri

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:28:55 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And I did try ext2 for an fs choice. Made no difference, it would > > > not set the bootable flag. Tried both fat16 and fat32 too. > > > Spmething would not allow settiing the bootable flag. > > The b

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:53:29 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:31:36 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:39:22 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), An

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:52:36 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:47:46 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:49:07 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > 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 1

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT 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

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:47:46AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > 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 store

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:31:36 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:39:22 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:53:20PM -

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:13:38 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene hes

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:47:46 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > 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 th

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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 J

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
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

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I did try ext2 for an fs choice. Made no difference, it would not set > > the bootable flag. Tried both fat16 and fat32 too. Spmething would not > > allow settiing the bootable flag. The boot flag is set to a partition's description in the partition table, not to a

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
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,

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:06:45AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 08:40:15 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] (I hope I'm not mixing up the quoting) > > 537M - FAT - at the very beginning of the disk - the ESP partition - > > mounted as /boot/efi > > > Is that now mandat

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:32:45 EDT rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, June 11, 2022 07:13:38 AM gene heskett wrote: > > Welp, I did that, but the installer refuses to set the bootable flag > > on that drive, it blinks the remote screen, but when its repainted, > > its still off. I went th

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 08:40:15 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:13:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT Da

Boot flag. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (I still riddle what gene Heskett means with "installer refuses to set the bootable flag". So i only answer to the rhkramer's question.) rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > IIRC, the bootable flag is pretty much irrelevant in Linux -- it doesn't > have to be set to boot from a partitions. Am I mis-r

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, June 11, 2022 07:13:38 AM gene heskett wrote: > Welp, I did that, but the installer refuses to set the bootable flag on > that drive, it blinks the remote screen, but when its repainted, its > still off. I went thru the loop, even made a new gpt partition table, but > no joy. and all I

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
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. Howev

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:13:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene h

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread songbird
gene heskett wrote: ... > Welp, I did that, but the installer refuses to set the bootable flag on > that drive, it blinks the remote screen, but when its repainted, its > still off. I went thru the loop, even made a new gpt partition table, but > no joy. and all I have to show for it is a 5 mega

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:39:22 EDT gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:53:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:49:40

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > 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: > > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > 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: > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > So 26th reinstall attempt, followi

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-10 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote: > > > > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: > > > >

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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 mach

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote: > > > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: > > > > Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote: > > > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: > > > > Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote: > > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: > > > Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the > > > server, > > > then I loaed it up in gimp and smunched it d

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote: > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: > > Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the > > server, > > then I loaed it up in gimp and smunched it down to about 51k, ugly > > but > > still readable, and thats not made

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 19:53:20 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:49:40 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > 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 > >

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the server, then I loaed it up in gimp and smunched it down to about 51k, ugly but still readable, and thats not made it thru the server either. Screenshot_1.jpg(~61 KB) was attached to your

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
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

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
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? > So, how to I do a text copy/paste fr

26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread gene heskett
Hello all; I have now made two passes at posting a screenshot of the partitioner menu screen, showing that it does not even see the drive I want to use. It also shows 3 copies that make no sense as they are all called by the same name as SCSI7. they might be the raid, but that is 4 drives, not