On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 17:11:26 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: Alan McConnell's responses are indented and begin with >.
> From: "Brian" <a...@cityscape.co.uk> Brian's resonses are not indented. > > > Yep. I have been back to my Jessie in the meantime, and run > > os-prober. > > I didn't attempt to copy down on a piece of paper what it wrote; > > trust me > > that it was unenlightening garbage. > Ah. That's good. Your E-mail reader seems to respect my indentations. > Others > don't, alas. Do you perchance use mutt? Perchance. > What is "unenlightening" to you may not be unenlightening to others; > trust me on that. "garbage" is *your* value judgement; > No, I'm going to insist on my "garbage" denotation. Since I have a > very > acceptable way of going from one OS to another, your input on what > os-prober > returned to me is of little interest to me, and much less to the > other members > of this E-list, I'm sure. You can insist on what you want. It is easy when only you know what the the output is. > > But I'd like to defend what Lisi calls a "kludge". Here is what I > do: when I > boot, or reboot my machine, if I do nothing I get my Jessie, which > is what I > want. If I want to go to Windoze, I gotta hold the F12, as Felix > Mieta taught > me several moons ago, and then I get put into a nice menu: Choose > the boot > manager. I use my Arrow keys to get to Windows boot manager, and > voila! in a > few seconds I'm in Windoze. Not so difficult after all. And I > would think that > an expert programmer, which I used to be but am not any more, could > put those > few simple steps into a "first of all" window. Maybe a simple grub > file? That's fine; it does what you want and will serve you well. Stick with it. but forget about involving GRUB. > We Debian users yearn for the day when copy 'n paste and USB sticks are > invented. It will make things so much easier to move information (which > is severely lacking from you in this thread) about. > Yes. If I could move stuff from my Windows OS to my Jessie, and vice > versa, that would be a big help. Any suggestions from anyone about > that? > Linux used to be able to go into MS-DOS and put files there and get > files > out of there. Has anyone any information on that? I rather think there is an answer in the response you quoted. > > > Should you be game to try installing Jessie again, you might try a > > > network > > > installation started via a Stretch installer. > > Jeez! I can't even run X11 on my present install(*) let alone get > > on > > line. > That situation has changed as of just an hour ago. I did a reinstall > of > xorg(or maybe it was x11), and my 'startx', from my old > wheezy(fortunately > saved) worked, after I'd done a few tweeks to my .xinitrc. I tried my > old beloved sawfish(now wmctl) but that didn't work as well as > metacity. Good. (Your technique is extraordinary but comments on it are outside the scope of this thread). > > (*) Does anyone here know how to create a .Xauthority file? That is one > > of the > > things the Jessie installer failed to provide me with. > > You've asked this five months ago: > I did indeed. That was before my old machine gave up the ghost. I > am > impressed, Brian, that you keep such careful track of me. I have a reasonably good memory. It was GNOME not installing libreoffice which triggered the connections. So unusual. You never responded to that either at the time it was pointed out. > My final problem is: how to get my Jessie to get on line. I don't think this > is > anything anyone here can help me with, since I live in a retirement community > which has a huge contract with Comcast. I called a tech person here, and he > gave me > a username and password which got me, and keeps me, online . . . but only for > the > Windoze side. I gotta do some exploring to see if I can make this work with > Jessie. I'm confident you are resourceful and will manage. -- Brian.
