Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
sourceforge-net only stores an old 32-bit version. Didier Le 25/09/2023 à 16:29, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > That's how that's done on sourceforge.net. The webmaster would have to do > that, and now sourceforge.net is out of date on latest version for some > reason. > > >

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Martin, sorry for the mistake in the HandBook. Of course I should have written: wget https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso wget https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso.sha256 then: sha256sum -c slint64-15.0-5.iso.sha256 I will fix

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
That's how that's done on sourceforge.net. The webmaster would have to do that, and now sourceforge.net is out of date on latest version for some reason. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
That download is happening now. It's the same url except that the version number now is 15.5 which is fine and explains what is happening. What I copied from the handbook is 15.0. I wish all problems were this easy to figure out. A suggestion might be to make the url refer to something like

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Have you tried: https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Note that if you're in a graphical environment, switching to a virtual terminal is achieved with ctrl-altF1, ctrl-alt-F2, etc., and at least one of those terminals will be taken up by your graphical session. These days, tty1 is usually devoted to the graphical session; possibly tty2 as well.

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I am not sure what is wrong but everything looks normal in the image-getting phase. I lifted this right out of the handbook: wget https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.iso wget https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.iso.sha256 The results are

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I appreciate all this information because I got in a bit of a hurry and ended up at the wrong site and the web monster showed me a 3-GB image for slint which I downloaded. The download went fine and the image flowed like good wine on to a 4-GB usb stick. slint-14.2.iso?viasf=1 Whatever this is,