OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:47:55PM -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: There is a tale in my country about an arrogant man that considered absurd that a pumpkin, being a large fruit, comes from a short plant, and the blackberry [1] comes from a tall tree although it is a tiny fruit. He

Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread albcares
that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass. (sorry for my basic language) 2013/3/4, Darac

Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 09:48, albcares escreveu: that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass.

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Harvey Kelly
On 2 March 2013 10:58, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists? Watching this

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Harvey Kelly wrote: On 2 March 2013 10:58, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hi Miles, He has managed to hog the whole list, and get a lot of technical expertise for free, for days now - by displaying the attitude of a particularly badly-behaved child. What a d!ck. but it has been fascinating, in a train-wreck, troll-baiting kind of way :-) Oh absolutely! I've saved

Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). What I did: 1 - Booted Windows. 1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB. 1.2 - Shut down Windows. 2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success! 2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome. 3 - Booted Windows. 3.1 -

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Between this comment... Any/all help appreciated except from Lisi Reisz. ...and this one, who would want to help?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Filipak wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). What I did: 1 - Booted Windows. 1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB. 1.2 - Shut down Windows. 2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success! 2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome. 3 -

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 13:39:19 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: What I did: 1 - Booted Windows. 1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB. 1.2 - Shut down Windows. 2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success! 2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome. 3 - Booted Windows. 3.1 - Copied the

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: 13 - Removed hard disk. 14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. 14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32). 14.2 - Attempted install to the 8-GB USB (newly partitioned). 14.3 - Install succeeded! 14.4 -

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 3:55 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: 13 - Removed hard disk. 14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. 14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32). 14.2 - Attempted install to the 8-GB USB (newly partitioned). 14.3

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 March 2013 22:25:20 Mark Filipak wrote: You want to install it to the 8 GB usb stick, which may be /dev/sdb -- but you should make sure. Really? Are you saying that at that point the USB thumb drive has a mount point? I don't think so, but what the hell do I know. Even if it

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:25:20PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 3:55 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: 13 - Removed hard disk. 14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. 14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32).

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject. What I did: [...] What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It is beyond your possibilities to even understand help on

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 7:47 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject. What I did: [...] What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It