On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:57:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old.
>
> *10
>
> I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard
All three of them, actually ;-)
Cheers
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On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 13:06:40 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400
> gene heskett wrote:
>
> > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the
> > mouse.
>
> charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm
[ … ]
> Description: General Purpose Mouse interface
>
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old.
*10
I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new
fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fan
On Monday, June 13, 2022 11:35:29 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Let's get some actual numbers in here. From wikipedia:
>
> IBM PC with proprietary BIOS introduced: 1981
> Linus Torvalds begins writing Linux: 1991
Efforts started toward EFI (predecessor in some sense of UEFI) -- see below:
199
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
> > new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux
> > was first written...
> If that is what they taught you in history, Michael, sue the the school.
*sigh*
Let's ge
On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled
EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when
li
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled
EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux
was first written...
So having tw
On 2022-06-12 18:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote:
As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the
disk
thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get
things
working one at a time afterwards.
Were I run
On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400
gene heskett wrote:
> Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the
> mouse.
charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm
Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.7-8
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Axel Beckert
Installed-Size: 553 kB
Pre-Depends: init-sy
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 17:00:42 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:20:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote:
> As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk
> thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things
> working one at a time afterwards.
Were I running into these kinds of hassles, that would
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:20:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
> > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and,
On 6/12/22 12:41, Dan Ritter wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root
pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:42:06AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> If blkid is missing, so is lsblk,
unicorn:~$ type blkid
blkid is /sbin/blkid
unicorn:~$ type lsblk
lsblk is /bin/lsblk
Betcha it's a PATH thing.
On 2022-06-12 17:20, gene heskett wrote:
I so want you to succeed and I can't be a lot of help.
As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk
thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things
working one at a time afterwards.
mick
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On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:20:05 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
> > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and,
> > p
gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root
> pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup cuz everything
> but synapti
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 03:53:49 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200):
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> >> The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole
> >> and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/
On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably,
keystrokes).
Well, I gave up and did another 29t install, but in
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably,
keystrokes).
I was going to restrain myself and not send this, but I succumbed ... sorry
for the noise.
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 03:53:49 AM Felix Miata wrote:
> Why this tangent to Gene's foibles?
I shouldn't do this, but ...
(And no criticism intended of anyone, specifically Thomas Schmitt.)
s/song/threa
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> gene@coyote:~$ bash: xterm: command not found
>
> xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either.
unicorn:~$ apt policy xterm
xterm:
Installed: 366-1+deb11u1
Candidate: 366-1+deb11u1
Version table:
*** 366-1+deb11u1 500
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:21:50 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have
> > > konsole and termit, and termit will work from x and give me m
On Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:21:50 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have
> > konsole and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse
> > driven copy/ paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors
Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200):
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole
>> and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/
>> paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors screen.
> Ex
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole
> and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/
> paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors screen.
Execute
xterm &
in one of the terminal windows which the p
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