3 Apr
2019
3 Apr
'19
12:40 p.m.
On Wednesday 03 April 2019 01:20:51 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
yes. I always install on a new drive, so my data is there, ready to copy
over.
On Wednesday 03 April 2019 03.50:15 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Not a lot of choices, xfce maybe.
On Tuesday 02 April 2019 18:36:14 Dan Youngquist
wrote:
Is this with Gnome? Yes, I've see that too. Get rid if Gnome
On 04/02/2019 01:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Well, ATM I'm ready to shoot all the neighborhood cats. Something is
shutting the stretch system off in about 5 minutes of mouse or
keyboard inactivity, so I've had to recompose an install list and
restart synaptic 5 or 6 times now. ATM, it goes straight to a gnome login asking me
for my user pw.
I didn't note if there was a session clicker or not. My mistake
I expect.
I don't know about gdm, but tdm and lightdm both will auto-login
to whatever desktop you last logged in to. To switch, logout,
then select the session type at the display manager's login
screen, and login. Then, to add
insult to injury, the default system partition it sets
up during the install for /, when you ask it for a separate /home,
on a 2 terabyte drive is 30 GB.
(...)
I have never had ant great success at
pre-partitioning a drive, the
installer never accepts what you so carefully lay out with gparted,
From what you say I'd guess you're installing new. Then partitioning,
then doing an "expert install" (I prefer the expert graphical
install) should use your partitions (it takes some time to understand
how to tell the installer where to install, but it works.
Tell me your secret incantations...
I do use a 30 GB home (I use 50GB for / and 15 - 30 GB for /home) as
it makes backups faster and easier. I mount other partition on
specific directories if necessary (for example on one machine
.playonlinux is on a 200GB partition on another disc, I don't want to
backup this everytime and I could live without the games). But this is
you decision.
Generally I use ssh -Y for logins to the rest of my 8 machine network,
and sshfs for file moving. I have a stanza in rc.local that mounts all
that, or if need be a starter script that does them all. Those already
mounted harmlessly error out, but if not mounted, it Just Works. One of
them is a pi-3b, running 1400 lbs worth of a 70 yo Sheldon lathe. 3 more
are intel boxes running similar cnc controlled machinery. This will be
the first 64 bit install in the local system. I've put it off because
LCNC doesn't run well with the 64 bits much longer IRQ latency's.
Typically at least 4x longer on a 64 bit install. And lower priced
setups using stepper motors cannot tolerate a late step, they'll stop
and stall, making junk out of what could be a thousand dollar part. So
the only thing this machine can do now is remotely monitor the others.
Simulations are ok for writing code, but not much else.
Thierry
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