On Friday 03 April 2015 07:24:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Lisi, your gmail account is bouncing msgs from me. My server may be on a
blacklist gmail watches I guess. Anyway, PM relayed to another list that
cares, thanks for the heads up.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Sunday 05 April 2015 14:42:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 05 April 2015 09:03:08 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 17:57:02 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > The film show seems to be the only way I can present what I've done
> > > in a manner that should not generate a 6 week long thr
On Sunday 05 April 2015 09:03:08 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 17:57:02 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The film show seems to be the only way I can present what I've done
> > in a manner that should not generate a 6 week long thread arguing
> > about what I did or did not do to cause my ow
On Saturday 04 April 2015 17:57:02 Gene Heskett wrote:
> The film show seems to be the only way I can present what I've done in a
> manner that should not generate a 6 week long thread arguing about what
> I did or did not do to cause my own headache if indeed it is my mistake.
If you would like h
On Saturday 04 April 2015 15:50:03 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/04/2015 03:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > df currently reports:
> >
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks
> > Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs
> >
On 04/04/2015 03:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
df currently reports:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 944923028 128755476
768168168 15% /
udev
On Saturday 04 April 2015 14:24:31 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/04/2015 03:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote:
> >> On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote:
> >>> Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> When he mentioned drive
Hi.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:14:21 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be
> > > > > careful to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left
> > > > > running on logout) which would try to access files under
> > > > > /home/*/ - and thoug
On 04/04/2015 06:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 04 April 2015 04:40:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Brian, that is ***generally**
Hi.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:43:14 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com):
> > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200
> > Petter Adsen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400
> > > The Wanderer wrote:
> > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to
On 04/04/2015 03:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote:
On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
[...]
When he mentioned drives in a hot swap cage, isn't that RAID?? Then
didn't the installer made the correct
On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:43:14 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com):
> > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200
> >
> > Petter Adsen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400
> > >
> > > The Wanderer wrote:
> > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd nee
Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com):
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200
> Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400
> > The Wanderer wrote:
> > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful
> > > to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left runnin
On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:19:52 Brian wrote:
> On Sat 04 Apr 2015 at 12:57:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:05:55 Brian wrote:
> > > I said nothing of the sort. All my responses have been in the
> > > context of using d-i. That goes for others too.
> >
> > d-i? expa
On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:59:49 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> > tbe, To Be Exact
>
> "Even with a tested IQ of 147, the wet ram is now having problems of
> the short term memory variety, TBE when its 80 years old."
>
> Parses, but fails semantic analysis.
On Sat 04 Apr 2015 at 12:57:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:05:55 Brian wrote:
> >
> > I said nothing of the sort. All my responses have been in the context
> > of using d-i. That goes for others too.
>
> d-i? expand please.
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Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
>
> tbe, To Be Exact
"Even with a tested IQ of 147, the wet ram is now having problems of
the short term memory variety, TBE when its 80 years old."
Parses, but fails semantic analysis.
Apologies for not adding OT earlier.
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On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:05:55 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 20:29:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:38:06 Brian wrote:
> > > Your turn now for some gauntlet picking up and a keystroke by
> > > keystroke account. :)
> > >
> > > There is no significant space a
On Saturday 04 April 2015 09:04:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:18:15 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:08:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > I'll use jigl to make a slide
> > > > show thats well compres
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 20:29:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 18:38:06 Brian wrote:
> >
> > Your turn now for some gauntlet picking up and a keystroke by
> > keystroke account. :)
> >
> > There is no significant space available on the disk to install to. The
> > only way to g
On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:18:15 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:08:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I'll use jigl to make a slide
> > > show thats well compressed.
> >
> > Please don't. Some of us have visual impairments.
On Saturday 04 April 2015 07:10:01 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Gene Heskett [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]:
> > Greetings all;
>
> [...]
>
> > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it
> > into my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be
> > great as it probab
On Saturday 04 April 2015 06:31:53 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these
> > > here parts for decades.
> >
> > I could
On Saturday 04 April 2015 06:20:24 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these
> > here parts for decades.
>
> I couldn't find that one on the acronym site!!
The general meaning seems to that wh
On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:08:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I'll use jigl to make a slide
> > show thats well compressed.
>
> Please don't. Some of us have visual impairments. Just post the
> pictures.
>
> Lisi
jigl has the advantage of allow
On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:06:09 Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200
>
> Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400
> >
> > The Wanderer wrote:
> > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be
> > > careful to make sure that nothing got aut
On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:05:43 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > C.E.T., Certified Electronics Technician, I am one, registered as
> > NEB-118. That card, dropped on the HR department desk when the
> > department is looking to hire an electronics te
On Saturday 04 April 2015 11:55:18 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 04:40:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > So
* Gene Heskett [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]:
> Greetings all;
[...]
>
> So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into
> my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be great as it
> probably looks someplace else for its libraries & such.
>
> So where is the st
On Saturday 04 April 2015 04:40:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent"
>
On Saturday 04 April 2015 11:31:53 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these here
> > > parts for decades.
> >
> > I couldn'
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these here
> > parts for decades.
>
> I couldn't find that one on the acronym site!!
I thought cf. was compare[d] w
On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these here
> parts for decades.
I couldn't find that one on the acronym site!!
Lisi
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On 04/04/15 10:59, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> Why can't he actually type out these awful jargon acronyms? And
> avoid this extra abstruse vocabulary? Because we might actually
> understand if he did, and writing stuff we can't understand seems to
> make him feel superior.
>
> But this is the English
On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote:
> I'll use jigl to make a slide
> show thats well compressed.
Please don't. Some of us have visual impairments. Just post the pictures.
Lisi
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Hi.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200
Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400
> The Wanderer wrote:
> > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful
> > to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left running on logout)
> > which would try to access
On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> C.E.T., Certified Electronics Technician, I am one, registered as
> NEB-118. That card, dropped on the HR department desk when the
> department is looking to hire an electronics technician, raises eyebrows
> AND the salary that will be offer
On Saturday 04 April 2015 01:44:46 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my
> > > > st
On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my
> > > stars)
> >
> > No - it is another Gene special.
> >
>
On Saturday 04 April 2015 03:15:15 Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:39:46 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > I vaguely recall fighting with the partitioning stage at one point
> > > in the past but I think the 7.7 netinst I
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:43:47 Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:29:04 -0400
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>
> > Does this server take 2.5 megabyte pictures? I'll take them with my
> > Nikon L100 camera as I go. Thats the size of its usual jpeg output,
> > per picture.
>
> Gene,
>
> P
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
[...]
> When he mentioned drives in a hot swap cage, isn't that RAID?? Then
> didn't the installer made the correct call? :/ Ric
No raid involved Ric, jus
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:39:46 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > I vaguely recall fighting with the partitioning stage at one point
> > in the past but I think the 7.7 netinst I tried recently was much
> > improved.
> >
> > There might be one part
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:33:00 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/03/2015 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line
> > insufficient for this scenario?
>
> Gene, when you first boot, boot into rescue mode and login as root.
> now /home is nicely idl
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400
The Wanderer wrote:
> Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful
> to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left running on logout)
> which would try to access files under /home/*/ - and though I don't
> know of anything offhand whi
On Friday 03 April 2015 20:44:46 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent"
> > > > (my star
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:29:04 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Does this server take 2.5 megabyte pictures? I'll take them with my
> Nikon L100 camera as I go. Thats the size of its usual jpeg output,
> per picture.
Gene,
Please don't post a number of 2.5M pictures here if you can avoid it,
even if
On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote:
/home is just a directory on / here since the broken
installer will not do it any other way.
I
On 04/03/2015 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line
insufficient for this scenario?
Gene, when you first boot, boot into rescue mode and login as root. now
/home is nicely idle, after you have installed the 3rd new drive and
have partitione
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my
> > > stars)
> >
> > No - it is another Gene special.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> T
On Friday 03 April 2015 20:22:18 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Usually less than 4 megabytes of free space left at the end of the
> > disk with a used 4k per sector disk on the cable, but could be zero
> > for a 512 byte per sector used
On Friday 03 April 2015 18:38:06 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:39:32 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 16:37:51 Brian wrote:
> > > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:37:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote:
> > > > > Either there
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Usually less than 4 megabytes of free space left at the end of the disk
> with a used 4k per sector disk on the cable, but could be zero for a 512
> byte per sector used disk since there is not normally an alignment
> problem with t
Gene Heskett writes:
> The abbreviation 'equ' has been in common use on this side of the pond
> in technical literature such as service manuals for at least 65 years
> that I personally know of.
I've been reading technical literature on this side of the pond for at
least 50 years and I've never se
On Friday 03 April 2015 18:19:09 Bob Proulx wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Brian wrote:
> > > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Brian wrote:
> > > > > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none
> > > > > you cannot install anything to that disk. What did you get?
> > > > > You didn't
On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my
> > stars)
>
> No - it is another Gene special.
>
> Lisi
Two great countries, Lisi, separated by a common language.
The
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:39:32 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 16:37:51 Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:37:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote:
> > > > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none you
> > >
On 04/03/2015 at 06:32 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> If you want to have multiple partitions, and you don't have free
> space to create them in, then - as Brian said - you need to specify
> which existing partitions to delete, and then create the needed
> partitions (or let let the installer create th
On 04/03/2015 at 05:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 16:37:51 Brian wrote:
>
>> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:37:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote:
If it were me and there was no free space, I would delete that
partition a
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Brian wrote:
> > > > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none you
> > > > cannot install anything to that disk. What did you get? You didn't
> > > > say, so now we are left wondering how you dealt with that
> > > >
On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my stars)
No - it is another Gene special.
Lisi
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On Friday 03 April 2015 16:42:56 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 20:41:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > but this now leaves me wondering just
> > what it was that I did wrong, at least 10 times in a row with 2
> > different wheezy install images.
>
> Now that is progress. If you really wan
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:37:51 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:37:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote:
> > > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none you
> > > cannot install anything to that disk. What did you get? You didn't
Reco wrote:
> Petter Adsen wrote:
> > > Resizing just works, as long as you don't forget the correct order for
> > > changing the filesystem and the volume. I.e.
> > >
> > > 1) Enlarge - volume first, filesystem last.
> > > 2) Reduce - filesystem first, volume last.
I am compelled to note that re
On Friday 03 April 2015 20:41:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> but this now leaves me wondering just
> what it was that I did wrong, at least 10 times in a row with 2
> different wheezy install images.
Now that is progress. If you really want another go we could perhaps get
somewhere from there.
Lisi
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:37:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote:
> >
> > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none you cannot
> > install anything to that disk. What did you get? You didn't say, so
> > now we are left wondering how you dea
On Friday 03 April 2015 15:19:26 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 14:49:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 13:26:32 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 17:41:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > If that isn't broken, its a matter for you and me to argue about
> >
On Friday 03 April 2015 15:14:51 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 19:51:45 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 13:30:29 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 17:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by
> > >
On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 13:52:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
> > > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that.
> > >
> > > I
On Friday 03 April 2015 14:30:05 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:39:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > Is there a local Linux User Group in your area? You could mention
> > > this, and I bet there would be someone wh
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 14:49:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>
> On Friday 03 April 2015 13:26:32 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 17:41:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > If that isn't broken, its a matter for you and me to argue about
> > > over a couple hand coolers, on me of course. :)
On Friday 03 April 2015 19:51:45 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 13:30:29 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 17:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by
> > > > step instructions, which you ignored.
> > >
> > > No, the
On Friday 03 April 2015 14:29:37 The Wanderer wrote:
> On 04/03/2015 at 02:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
> >> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page.
> >>
> >> 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key.
> >>
> >> 3.
On Friday 03 April 2015 13:30:29 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 17:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by
> > > step instructions, which you ignored.
> >
> > No, they were printed and followed to the letter, at least twice.
> >
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 13:52:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that.
> >
> > It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem.
> >
>
On Friday 03 April 2015 13:26:32 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 17:41:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > If that isn't broken, its a matter for you and me to argue about
> > over a couple hand coolers, on me of course. :)
>
> No, it isn't broken. You have trouble with it. So you need help.
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:39:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > Is there a local Linux User Group in your area? You could mention
> > this, and I bet there would be someone who would be keen to see what
> > the trouble is, i.e. sort it
On 04/03/2015 at 02:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
>> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page.
>>
>> 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key.
>>
>> 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose
>> 'L
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that.
>
> It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem.
>
Re-reading this again...
> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks'
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that.
>
> It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem.
>
> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page.
Check
> 2. Choose a
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote:
[...]
> > > >
> > > > I know that it has been said before, but there may be people new
> > > > to the list reading this. I used the same "broken" installer,
> > > > and my /home is separate from /.
> > > >
> > > > Lisi
> > >
> > > I appreciat
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> I knew it would degenerate to this. Back then I asked for howto's, got
> and printed several, all of which failed to produce the desired results,
> I assume because steps done were not all recorded.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg0015
On Friday 03 April 2015 17:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by step
> > instructions, which you ignored.
>
> No, they were printed and followed to the letter, at least twice.
>
> > Also ask you for step by step
> > information on what you had
On Friday 03 April 2015 17:41:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
> If that isn't broken, its a matter for you and me to argue about over a
> couple hand coolers, on me of course. :)
No, it isn't broken. You have trouble with it. So you need help. I have no
problem with that. But accept help. Answer ques
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:16:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:
[...]>
> The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by step
> instructions, which you ignored.
No, they were printed and followed to the letter, at least twice.
> Also ask you for step by step
> information on what you had done
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:03:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 15:35:37 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to
> > > begin with, but is just a directory under the root partition,
> > > which I believe Gene stated is the case he's de
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that.
It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem.
1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page.
2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key.
3. Cre
On 04/03/2015 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 09:36:33 The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> /home is a mount point, not a partition. You don't mount
>>> anything over it, you mount something on it. So you mount your
>>> new home p
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:28:56PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 02 Apr 2015 at 20:37:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken
>
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:31:02 Gene Heskett wrote:
> And I
> cannot understand why that is not possible with this installer.
It is.
Lisi
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On Friday 03 April 2015 16:01:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 10:23:58 Brian wrote:
> [...]
>
> Here we go again...
>
> > Why bother? The ISO from LinuxCNC installs within 15 minutes and will
> > provide separate / and /home partitions and a swap partition of any
> > chosen size.
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:01:18 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 15:31:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And don't forget, that when
> > the cp is done, to look at it with an ls -l to make sure I still own
> > my stuff.
>
> That is the point of the p in -Rpu. It preserves permissions.
>
I'l
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:53:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 11:38:02 David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm):
> > > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > >> But you mentioned cle
On Friday 03 April 2015 15:35:37 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to
> > begin with, but is just a directory under the root partition, which I
> > believe Gene stated is the case he's dealing with.
>
> That is correct, the installers partitioner
On Friday 03 April 2015 15:31:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> And don't forget, that when
> the cp is done, to look at it with an ls -l to make sure I still own my
> stuff.
That is the point of the p in -Rpu. It preserves permissions.
Lisi
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On Friday 03 April 2015 11:38:02 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm):
> > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another
> > >> partition over i
Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm):
> On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another
> >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since
> >> t
On Friday 03 April 2015 10:52:06 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
> > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken
> > > > installer wi
On Friday 03 April 2015 10:23:58 Brian wrote:
[...]
Here we go again...
> Why bother? The ISO from LinuxCNC installs within 15 minutes and will
> provide separate / and /home partitions and a swap partition of any
> chosen size. That's when done properly, of course. Compare that with
> the convo
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com):
>
>
> On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken
> > > installer will not do it any other way.
> >
> > I know that it has been
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