Re: Suggested edit

2017-03-16 Thread Adrian O';Dell
at 06:50:47AM -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote: Hello, I think your download page should clarify that the user should select YES to the Mirrors question or else no graphical desktop environment can be installed, thus leaving the user with a console-only system. The installer has a box to install a

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Adrian O';Dell
27;t found this error in that distro yet. On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Adrian O'Dell wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 02:15:10 From: Adrian O'Dell To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reporting Bug Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:33:12 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Reporting Bug

2015-10-21 Thread Adrian O';Dell
There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I don't have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer? My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to not create my user account. Long time ago when I tried to seek help via IRC was tol

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian O';Dell
On 10/13/2015 09:51 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:09:53 -0400 (EDT), Stuart Longland wrote: This isn't level 1 helpdesk material, you'll actually need a technical contact there. Their level 1 help desk isn't much help anyway, if you're a Linux user. The last time I called t

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian O';Dell
On 10/13/2015 05:43 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:36:27 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: I tend to think passwords (except the very simplest or guessable ones) are not "discovered" but handed over. 1. My password is known only to me. Even my wife doesn't know it. 2. My password

Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian O';Dell
On 10/13/2015 03:16 PM, Reco wrote: Ok. I've just downloaded netinst iso from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso $ md5sum debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso 762eb3dfc22f85faf659001ebf270b4f debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso $ sha1sum debian-8.

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian O';Dell
Never tell a business partner to change. On 10/13/2015 02:45 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 13/10/15 a las 14:38, Brian escribió: On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 14:04:44 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote: There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not

Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian O';Dell
That is not what appears in Debian 8, netinst. Here is the one that appears: On 10/13/2015 01:25 PM, Reco wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:05:36 -0500 Adrian O'Dell wrote: Yes, the last time you looked was probably Debian7. I was fully expecting to see it on Debian8. It seems that you

Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation

2015-10-13 Thread Adrian O';Dell
Yes, the last time you looked was probably Debian7. I was fully expecting to see it on Debian8. On 10/13/2015 10:19 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 12 Oct 2015 at 23:07:35 -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote: Previously during install, when selecting which Mirror to use, one could press the up arrow an

unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation

2015-10-12 Thread Adrian O';Dell
Previously during install, when selecting which Mirror to use, one could press the up arrow and get a line to input a custom mirror location, such as one kept locally. This feature seems to have been removed from Debian8 installer. *** For a console-only (non-gui) environment, there should be