I appreciate all this information because I got in a bit of a hurry and ended up at the wrong site and the web monster showed me a 3-GB image for slint which I downloaded. The download went fine and the image flowed like good wine on to a 4-GB usb stick. slint-14.2.iso?viasf=1 Whatever this is, it's not a bootable image but probably all the sources which is a nice thing to have but won't do the job at hand right now. I should mount it and see what's there but it produced a thumb drive with 1 single partition of type hidden according to fdisk -l /dev/sdx. This whole project is going fairly nicely in that my wife helped me turn off secureboot and change the boot order to usb first then internal drive and, if the internal drive wasn't sick, I'd be up and running. Another debian-11 distro on a different thumb drive jups right in to the installation routine if you type s at the beeps and the system seems to just love it. Since the keyboard is a laptop keyboard, getting a secondary tty is a bit tricky. I had good beginners' luck after getting to the partitioner but I haven't been able to duplicate that more than once. I held alt+F1, I think and got the second console and was able to look around in /dev. The mentally-ill internal drive, however, was nowhere to be found and the only /dev/sdx listing was my boot drive for Linux. I killed everything and restarted but couldn't get the second console or any of the others to show but the partitioner, this time could see every drive in the system and their descriptions were spot on so I could have installed then had I wanted to do so. I could see that the internal drive is a Kingston ssD with 2 terabytes and all the partitions including Microsoft's partition were listed. I am sorely tempted to plug a real keyboard in to a usb converter which has a number pad like the good Lord meant keyboards to have, I mean a real number pad, not these fake ones that only give you numbers but have no numlock to cycle back and forth. When I was going to the school for the blind, they started us in typing on QWERTY keyboards back in 1962 when I was in the Fifth grade so it's nice when stuff stays in the usual place. That time when I could see all the drives on the system and could have installed Linux, I kept getting a really nice keyboard help instead of the secondary consoles so I don't know what changed but I couldn't call them up any more. The keyboard help said F1 when I pressed the key to the right of Escape so alt + that should have switched to tty1 from tty0. Anyway, I'll try your suggestion and see if I get slint when I put that image in. When I get Windows 11 working again, I will have a laptop with windows 11 or a Linux laptop if I plug in the slint image, hopefully the correct one this time. I do see that the CMOS clock is right in that if I do the date command from /dev/tty1, I see a utc date that is appropriate for my time zone. Older Windows systems set the CMOS clock based on local time so this one is new enough to do it the right way. Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Martin, > > to clarify, I have provided an image of an installed system as you > requested: > https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/minislint/README.minislint > but it was for a previous Slint version. > > You'd be better off installing the most recent version in an USB stick > (or a SD > card in an USB enclosure) as indicated in: > https://slint.fr/en/HandBook.html#_install_slint > > Cheers, > Didier _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list