Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >How about an "sudo apt update" first? Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't you? So I installed them. They weren't listed in Synaptic, but the little Ubuntu Update Manager had them, so I let it install

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
How about an "sudo apt update" first? On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:24 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:10:34 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >Okay, try this: > > > > apt-get download grub-pc > > dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb > > E: Can't find a source to download

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:10:34 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Okay, try this: > > apt-get download grub-pc > dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb E: Can't find a source to download version '2.04-1ubuntu26.4' of 'grub-pc:amd64' I don't know why apt doesn't know where it is. Surely it

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
Okay, try this: apt-get download grub-pc dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:36 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> >> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan >> >wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13

Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-18 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to > > it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not > > even plugged in I look at the

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 > >> Russell Senior dijo: > >> > >> >Step 1: > >> > > >> > dpkg

Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all the files that I thought I

[PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
This problem has vexed me off and on for as long as I've used Linux. I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all the

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> >> >Step 1: >> > >> > dpkg -l grub-pc >> > >> >which should give you the partially installed version you've

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >Step 1: > > > > dpkg -l grub-pc > > > >which should give you the partially installed version you've got. > > The results are not at all clear: > dpkg -l grub-pc >

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you would not be hell set against totalComander - it has sftp plugin which allows me to copy files on/off my phone. It is probably faster than USB and definitely without the days of trouble you like going through. Ssh works on most Linux computers, so it is pretty easy to use for non windows

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Step 1: > > dpkg -l grub-pc > >which should give you the partially installed version you've got. The results are not at all clear: dpkg -l grub-pc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:00:13 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 >Vince Winter dijo: > >>sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn > > sudo mkfs.exfat -n exfat_drive /dev/sdc1 > sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found > >Looking a the man page for mkfs the exfat

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter dijo: >sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn sudo mkfs.exfat -n exfat_drive /dev/sdc1 sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found Looking a the man page for mkfs the exfat filesystem is not listed as an option. Maybe I need a newer version