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.
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