Greetings all; 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.
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. And amazingly to me, networking is Just Working. The last stretch install was on a rock64 board, and it took about 2 weeks to make an invocation of route add to actually setup a working gateway. I've got lots of configureation to do yet but the package managers are working, so I'll get there eventually. 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. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>