Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:53:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> 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.
>
Ctrl-alt-F1, F2 I think
Part of this at least is why I suggested using text mode install directly
on the machine if you could.
Graphical expert mode would probably work as well and you could save the
screenshots but I prefer completely text mode to be sure not to load
problematic graphics.
Andy
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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