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 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 I repeat, no EUFI. IMO its just something else to suffer bit rot from a stray alpha particle. You've not been told recently that dd-wrt is my guard dog, with very sharp teeth. I have not been touched in 24 years.
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > > . 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