All else aside, I recently installed Jessie onto the blank area of my disk, and generally dual boots OSX (with rEFIt's help). -- Keith Bainbridge
[email protected] +61 (0)447 667 468 Sent from my Apad On 19 March 2015 4:19:23 pm AEDT, Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: >On 05.03.15 08:45, Keith BAINBRIDGE wrote: >> Just had this thought. Fire up gparted in ubuntu while still in trial >> mode and create whtever partitions you need. Then proceed with >> intallation > >Many thanks, Keith. That worked fine. > >However, booting Ubuntu 14.04.2 was interminably slow, eventually >presenting only a _totally_ blank desktop, devoid of any menu or icon, >and no apparent way to invoke an xterm. (Mouse clickies only offered a >folder or a document) > >So from 5.10 to 10.04 seems to be the extent of my history with Ubuntu. >Debian+LXDE on the laptop is giving me no grief, so now I just needed a >more recent iso for the desktop. That needed some ingenuity. > >At http://mirror.internode.on.net/ I was unable to find any debian iso, >and selecting i386 at https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#verysmall >then selecting CDROM presents weird stuff. The first archive has a >win32.exe in it! No iso. > >But a quick google gave me >https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/ which at >"netinst CD image" actually presented an iso, instead of leading back >to >the same weird stuff as at the netinst link in the previous paragraph, >as the naming similarity threatened. Phew! > >The new "improved" installation methods being pushed, with their excess >of instructions and complications seem an enormous step backwards. >What's wrong with "whack it in and reboot"? > >Erik _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
