Have you tried: https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list