Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 21:38 (UTC-0500): > I ought to have guessed—I don't know how you keep track of so many! I have a spreadsheet for tracking several things, such as dates of last update/upgrade, video card installed, which DE. Each disk's partition inventory is comprised mostly

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 14:42:11 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 12:32 (UTC-0400): > > > Felix's first post came from, I don't quite get. > > Fallible memory. I use multiple distros, and do a lot more upgrading than new > installs. openSUSE, last I installed, a mon

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 12:32 (UTC-0400): > Felix's first post came from, I don't quite get. Fallible memory. I use multiple distros, and do a lot more upgrading than new installs. openSUSE, last I installed, a month ago, puts something on each of tty1-12. 1 is the installer itself, i

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 04:39:49 (+1000), David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 04:27, David wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 00:10, David Wright wrote: > > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > > > > > To explore and confirm and maybe learn something from > > > > smarter peopl

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-14 Thread David
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 04:27, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 00:10, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > > > To explore and confirm and maybe learn something from > > > smarter people, I report below some actual test results: [...] Sorry for thi

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-14 Thread David
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 00:10, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 04:05, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-13 05:15 (UTC-0500): > > > > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> 1,3,4 are not available shells. >> IIRC: > That does not match my recent experience. My recent experience is that I'm unable to predict which VC will be used for what any more (it used to be that the GUI sessions were in F7 and up, but nowadays it's usually F2 and up, tho on some of my machines

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 04:05, Felix Miata wrote: > > Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-13 05:15 (UTC-0500): > > > > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > > > tty1-tty4? > > > 1,3,4 are not available shell

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-14 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 04:05, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-13 05:15 (UTC-0500): > > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > > tty1-tty4? > 1,3,4 are not available shells. > IIRC: That does not match my recent experience. To explore a

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-13 05:15 (UTC-0500): > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > tty1-tty4? 1,3,4 are not available shells. IIRC: tty1 is devoted to the installer tty2 is an available shell tty3 & 4 are devoted to various logging/status or inst

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Sep 2020 at 05:15:38 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells > on tty1-tty4? > > All I've found are passing mentions in > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.en.html > https://www.debian.org/releases/stabl

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/13/2020 05:45 AM, David wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 20:16, Richard Owlett wrote: Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4? The installer is a running Linux system. What you ask about is a standard feature that is compiled into most Linux kerne

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread David
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 20:16, Richard Owlett wrote: > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > tty1-tty4? The installer is a running Linux system. What you ask about is a standard feature that is compiled into most Linux kernels, and the feature exists because it

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Linux-Fan
Richard Owlett writes: Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on tty1- tty4? I am not sure how much documentation there is on it, but how about this (section 6.3.9.2): https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html#di-miscellaneous HTH Linux-Fan [.