stretch problems

Installed stretch on a fresh hard drive, using a multiple partition setup, default gnome simple install. Broke my eyeballs and will use up a set of batteries in my mouse weekly to get anything done. Its a single user, single tasking system, with a busted terminal emulator, at best. Rebooted back to wheezy and printed the "debian trinity repository installation instructions", then rebooted back to stretch to apply them. Did, but got an odd error with the import key line. Fixed trinity.list for apt of course first. But synaptic did run, tde was clear at the bottom of the left column, but I found it and 45 minutes and about 1100MB of downloads later I thought I had enough tde to run. R14.0.5 FWIW. Rebooted to stretch, was greeted by the trinity login greeter, thought I was home free, but it was quiet for about 45 seconds after I entered the pw. Then boom, I'm looking at the worthless gnome screen again. During the install, I was asked which manager to use and clicked on tdm-trinity. But its not sticking, and I can't mount the stretch drive and edit it, theres enough diffs between the ext4's that it refuses to mount from wheezy. And if I add it to wheezy's fstab, the reboot locks up and I have to use the root pw to get a shell and # sign that line back out of wheezy'd fstab. Hopefully I will not have that problem in reverse because there's about 150 GB of stuff on the old wheezy drive to copy over. I did that, and I could read a dir or 3, but when I rebooted to wheezy again, it had to do a 20 minute e2fsck of the wheezy drive, which it did w/o reporting any errors. Looks like I need help before I really screw this up. So first, what do I edit or nuke to get rid of the gnome over-ride? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>