On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 14:08:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all;
Greetings, old man. > > I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and burnt 4 > copy's of the buster netinstall image to a series of them. 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. They know the technology is reliable and provides a bootable image. The other 1% takes a different path which, very often, involves other people in some work - like posting to -user. > But I can't get any of them to boot. > > Does old, these are at least 5 years old, cd'r media go bad? > > However the sha256sum's of both the file and the just burnt /dev/sr0 > match. This is the 5th burn attempted. > > 4 hours later, it actually booted, so something that looks a teeny bit > like stretch is now installed on a different drive. Hard to tell with > gnome for a desktop, and the Konsole available there has been severely > emasculated of anything that looks like session tabs. I have at least 15 > tabs on 4 of my 10 workspaces here on wheezy, So as yet, I feel like I'm > on windows-3.0. A fraction of the 1% inevitably has something disparaging to say to try to take the edge off their initial out-moded choice of boot medium. [snip] > Config roadblocks are, switching to tde for a desktop, can't find the > tools to do that, and getting my email corpus copied across so I have > continuity there. The rest I can probably muddle thru or ask more > detailed questions. And eventually you can quit hassling me to > update. :) Update? You are moving on to buster? Or is that a step too far? -- Brian.
