Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-17 Thread Wally Lepore
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > > I understand. Thank you for correcting my humble mistake. Will comply. > > You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you > find it > useful. > Thank yo

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > I understand. Thank you for correcting my humbly mistake. Will comply. You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you find it useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-16 Thread Wally Lepore
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >> When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at >> the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and >> other >> rules, please see t

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-16 Thread Wally Lepore
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > Hi Wally, > > When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at > the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and other > rules, please see the Code of Conduct at >

code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi Wally, When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and other rules, please see the Code of Conduct at Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 06:58:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > It was a struggle initially but I learned. It was my first real > progress with certain things that needed to be done with Linux. I had > no idea that files needed to be verified before burning to CD. They don't. It is just an added p

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 19:17 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > >> Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? > > > > PS: Or have you ever used a QL, C64 or similar computer? > > I have no idea what QL, or a C64 is prior to googli

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 18:58 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > I am familiar with some DOS commands The commands are simmilar, e.g. DOS | LINUX +-- CD | cd MD | mkdir The Linux terminal can help you, when using the Tab-key. Just type a character or some characters and then the Tab-key. [spi

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? > > PS: Or have you ever used a QL, C64 or similar computer? I have no idea what QL, or a C64 is prior to googling. Is this QL ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL http://www.r

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? > Hi Ralf, Yes but only the most basic. As I started on this whole linux adventure I dusted off my DOS 6.0 / 6.2 books that have been sitting on my book shelf since the mid 1990's. I ha

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? PS: Or have you ever used a QL, C64 or similar computer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350339825.2252.109.camel@localhost.localdomain

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
@Neal (really at Neal, not at Wally): We already confused Wally. Let's avoid sudo, since sudo can be set up in various ways and IIRC a default Debian comes without sudo. At the moment it's only important to explain that we don't login as root by a display manager, in the OP's case it for sure is G

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:24 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >> > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to >> > learn faste, resp. it might better explain ho

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 15, 2012 05:19:29 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > terminal emulation. Or, perhaps, a simple list of ways to become root without any clutt

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:24 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > > terminal emulation. > > > >

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > terminal emulation. > Yes, I will search youtube. Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal emulation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I won't confuse you Wally, or spread FUD, using the default GRUB seems > to be the best way for a beginner, because it's the default boot loader > for most distros. > > Personally I prefer GRUB legacy, the outdated, completely different > pred

Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I won't confuse you Wally, or spread FUD, using the default GRUB seems to be the best way for a beginner, because it's the default boot loader for most distros. Personally I prefer GRUB legacy, the outdated, completely different predecessor of the current GRUB. IMO it's much easier to use. Many ex