Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-07 17:26, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. I am attempting my first install of Debian and I must be missing

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-10 Thread David
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 23:51, Brian wrote: > I run 'lsblk' before > and after plugging the USB device in. Writing an image to a USB stick is > not something to rush if you don't want a system disk to suffer. I like to use 'watch lsblk -f'. It makes it obvious when the "plugging in" has been

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >> >> Yeah. This is a big problem. We'd need a desktop-user-safe GUI >> tool which by some AI detects the USB stick which is least worthy >> of preservation. Seems to me, what is perhaps needed is more localized support, or knowing where the

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Oct 2019 at 14:48:08 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] > > To create a bootable image from a .iso, you need 'dd', i.e. > > dd is a great tool, indeed, and i use it for the purpose out of tradition. > But it does nothing essential for the copied image to be

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 13:38:25 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2019-10-08, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > > Anyway, most of Linux newbies will not create usb from Linux machine > > anyway, so I doubt that any of this will help OP. Personally, can't > > even remember when I was creating usb image from

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-08, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > Anyway, most of Linux newbies will not create usb from Linux machine > anyway, so I doubt that any of this will help OP. Personally, can't even > remember when I was creating usb image from anything but Linux, so can't > be of much help there. Right, and as

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, after not finding in the man page a description of cp behavior with existing target file, i looked up POSIX https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cp.html "3. If source_file is of type regular file, [...] a. [...] if dest_file exists, the following steps shall be

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 01:13:18PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > cp copies a file onto s file system, bit that's not what's wanted here. > To create a bootable image from a .iso, you need 'dd' I know I'm repeating what others have said, but this misunderstanding is so damned pervasive that it

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 08-10-19, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 07/10/2019 19:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick, > >> I could boot from the stick and start the install. > > > > This is true. You have to put

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (We are discussing this for the archive, as Larry Honaker probably needs advise for doing it on MS-Windows.) Tony van der Hoff wrote: > cp copies a file onto s file system, bit that's not what's wanted here. It does indeed. But (at least with our GNU coreutils cp) copying a data file to a

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 07/10/2019 19:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: >> I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick, >> I could boot from the stick and start the install. > > This is true. You have to put it as image onto the raw USB stick device. > >

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > ... or from a fresh attempt to install the ISO onto the USB stick by > > one of the ISO-to-stick converters (unetbootin, Rufus, ...). to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Oh, they do that? Thanks for teaching me something new :-/ I have no comprehensive knowledge of that topic. Just what

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:35:09AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > The error message quoted by the original poster strongly suggests > > that he's got that part right: it is the boot loader complaining. > > No. It is the wrong flavor of SYSLINUX software and

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > The error message quoted by the original poster strongly suggests > that he's got that part right: it is the boot loader complaining. No. It is the wrong flavor of SYSLINUX software and much too old. Even debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso has "ISOLINUX 6.03 20150107"

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread tomas
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [...] > > Syslinux 4.03 2010-10-22 EDD © © 1994-2010 H. Peter Aanvin et al > > This does not look like the first bootloader message of a contemporary > Debian ISO image. If booted via legacy BIOS it should say "ISOLINUX" > rather

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread tomas
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:40:00PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > wrote: > > > > Greetings All, > > > > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be [...] Welcome! [...] > If I'm understanding you properly, yes. You need to take it from an > "iso

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: > I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick, > I could boot from the stick and start the install. This is true. You have to put it as image onto the raw USB stick device. https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb proposes for GNU/Linux

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 October 2019 12:40:00 Dan Purgert wrote: > wrote: > > Greetings All, > > > > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired > > computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows > > world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. > > > > I am

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread Dan Ritter
lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: > > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer > specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have > a passing knowledge of Unix. Good news: you're not the only blind Linux user on this list. If it helps, the

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread A . Söldner
Am 07.10.2019 um 18:26 schrieb lwhona...@gmail.com: Greetings All, Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be.  I am totally blind, retired computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world.  I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. I am attempting my first install of Debian

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 wrote: > > Greetings All, > > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired > computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows > world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. > > I am attempting my first

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread john doe
On 10/7/2019 6:26 PM, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: > Greetings All, > > > > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer > specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have > a passing knowledge of Unix. > > > > I am attempting my first

New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread lwhonaker
Greetings All, Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. I am attempting my first install of Debian and I must be missing something from the Install

Re: New LINUX USER

2000-07-15 Thread Marcel Karras
-- www.tokahome.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dhinesh K Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2000 11:50 Betreff: New LINUX USER hello, i have

Re: New LINUX USER

2000-07-15 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Try Xconfigurator On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:20:47PM +0530, Dhinesh K Kumar wrote: hello, i have installed Red Hat Linux in my PC. i am finding problems in configuring my monitor and Video card. Can u help me in this regard? Monitor : Samsung SAMTRON 40Bn Video Card : Cirrus Logic

Re: New LINUX USER

2000-07-15 Thread Digiover
[ Lost the original mail, so I changed the reply from Suresh ] On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:20:47PM +0530, Dhinesh K Kumar wrote: hello, i have installed Red Hat Linux in my PC. i am finding problems in configuring my monitor and Video card. Can u help me in this regard? Monitor : Samsung

New LINUX USER

2000-07-14 Thread Dhinesh K Kumar
hello, i have installed Red Hat Linux in my PC. i am finding problems in configuring my monitor and Video card. Can u help me in this regard? Monitor : Samsung SAMTRON 40Bn Video Card : Cirrus Logic 546X (AGP 4 mb) I can see a blank screen only after executing startx command.

re: New Linux User (late reply)

1998-02-28 Thread Alain Toussaint
one thing i would suggest in your case is that if you had a big enough hard drive,you can allway copy the content of you CD to the hard disk (in DOS) and start from that,i did it,but in my case,it was more in the interest of speed rater than incompatibility,my HD is a 1.7 gig unit. Alain -- TO

New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread CDALEDAVE
Hello, I just received and installed Debian Linux, and I've gotten up to the DSELECT part. I have the files it wants on CD, but I can't get Linux to recognize my CDrom drive, which is a Matshita CD-ROM CR-581. It keeps saying something about ISO 9660, I don't remember if that was the file system

Re: New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread Anthony H. Rossmeier
Hello CDALEDAVE, I hope you have more success than I did getting information from this bunch. I had similar problems with my CDRom and left messages for help and never got anything back from any of them. It sounds like you have a proprietary CDRom and those seems to have a little problem being

Re: New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread Richard B. Talley
On 22 Feb 98 at 21:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get Linux to recognize my CDrom drive, which is a Matshita CD-ROM CR-581. It keeps saying something about ISO 9660, I don't remember if that was the file system or what. CR-581 is a standard IDE/ATAPI drive. It's often bundled with

Re: New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:57:32 EST, wrote: Hello, I just received and installed Debian Linux, and I've gotten up to the DSELECT part. I have the files it wants on CD, but I can't get Linux to recognize my CDrom drive, which is a Matshita CD-ROM CR-581. It keeps saying something about ISO 9660,

Re: New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: Your cdrom may also need to be set for the position on the cable (master or slave), so read your cdrom manual or look at the switches or jumpers on it if they exist. Anways, when you're done with all that, see if the install program finds your