Re: [GTALUG] Happy ending (was Re: Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued)

2022-05-08 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
Sigh. Fingers not attached to brain. Must be the mental exhaustion of spending multiple hours downloading ISOs, burning USB sticks and fighting with "you can't get there from here" installs. I finished at 5am this morning. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 5:32 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > >

[GTALUG] Happy ending (was Re: Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued)

2022-05-08 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
Hi all. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 12:47 PM William Park via talk wrote: > > On 5/8/22 09:01, Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote: > > > [13.537] Current Operating System: Linux mx1 5.10.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP > Debian 5 > > .10.106-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64 > > > > The kernel is too old. RX 6000 generation

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

2022-05-08 Thread William Park via talk
On 5/8/22 09:01, Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 11:04:00PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Thankfully (I think), I was able to scp the X.org log file to another computer so I wouldn't lose it on the USB stick's live boot. I attach it below, and ask assistance

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

2022-05-08 Thread Tom Low-Shang via talk
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 11:04:00PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Thankfully (I think), I was able to scp the X.org log file to another > computer so I wouldn't lose it on the USB stick's live boot. I attach it > below, and ask assistance from anyone who can read these files so I can >

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

2022-05-08 Thread Nigel Auger via talk
Evan I apologize it seems I may have caused you more frustration not less by suggesting Clonezilla. I am still confident that it is a very useful tool for doing what you want to do but I have been using it for so long I didn't consider the learning curve and the old style cryptic user interface. I

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

2022-05-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Or maybe I'm not keeping track of chapters. ??? | Online help about how to partition a Linux system is as confused as ever, | some saying a single partition will do for everything, and others saying | that even a UEFI system needs a separate ext4 partition