What do isoinfo and isovfy say about the iso file?

If you do have to use Firefox (or other not very privacy friendly browser) it's a good idea to shut down your internet connection before starting it for the first time. Then you can go through settings to switch off telemetry, set home page to a blank page (or some page you trust), switch on "do not track", etc without giving it a chance to phone home *before* you tell it not to phone home. But you might need another system to search for *all* the settings you need to change.

It would be nice if distros could ship Firefox with default settings like that, but that's probably deliberately made difficult.

First try ls -ld /stuff on groucho (I suspect you are trying to access a dir in the root directory). If it looks as if the ID should be able to write there then try touch /stuff/test1 as that ID to make sure.

If you want to put things into somewhere under the ID's home directory then try rsync -av /media/stuff/firefox.oldfile  rsync://groucho@192.168.1.3:stuff (assuming stuff is in your home dir on groucho).

Chris

I've just pressed ctrl-alt-f2, logged on, typed ls to get a few screenfuls of ouput and shift-page_up and shift-page_down work. But if I press ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to the GUI, then ctrl-alt-f2 the scroll buffer is cleared.

This is on ascii (I run CUDA on an old GPU and dare not update it because Nvidia have probably removed support for the GPU from current releases of their drivers and runtime).

Chris

I've not used armv and ains but if they work like apt then installing the ones you wanted to keep before removing ristretto would mark them not to to be removed when the meta package they were par of is removed.

So the process would be:
Test removing ristretto (either do a simulate run or reply 'n' to the prompt).
Install the packages you want to keep. This should only mark them as wanted.
Remove ristretto (check the list of packages to be removed *before* replying 'y').

That *should* stop anything needing to be re-downloaded.

Chris

I don't have OpenRC on my system so I'm just guessing here.

Try reading the man pages for ebegin and eend (if they have them) to see what they should do.
Try calling them directly (passing ebegin a suitable message as a parameter). Do they work?

The part of the script you posted defines a function the script will call further on. Does it change the PATH before calling it?

Does anyone who has OpenRC installed have any suggestions? Even just to say it works for them.

And one last thought, are you on a x86-64 CPU? x86-64 won't work on ARM etc.

Chris

First check how many memory sticks you have. If you have more than one then test each with memtest86+ (one pass will be enough). If one gives no errors they you don't need to replace that stick.

You *might* find that one of the sockets in the motherboard is faulty so the memory will work correctly in another socket. Or if you are really lucky just removing and replacing the memory will clean the connections and make it work.

It might be worth checking it still works after one or two more reboots before you mark it as solved. I've see strange things happen too often to trust software to always do what you expect.

What sort of graphics card have you got? Or if you are using onboard graphics what sort of CPU is it?

Try assigning it an IPv4 address manually to get ethernet working. Eg ifconfig eth0 addr 192.168.1.64/24 as root. Replace eth0 with whatever the link is called. And use an address nothing else you have is using.

That would only be a temporary fix, but would enable you to download fixes onto it.

Or post output from /sbin/ifconfig here to give us a bit more to go by.

What make and model of system is it? CPU, motherboard, manufacturer, etc? Are you booting from a USB drive or a DVD? In either case what model?
Do any messages come out during the boot process?
If you have more than one system does it respond to pings from another system? If so can you log on to it over the network?
Exactly what message came out about the "live-boot" package when booting the minimal install? Can you take a photo of the screen and post it somewhere?

Chris

The problem here is that microsoft is an effective monopoly. Capitalism works well if you have a choice of product to buy, eg cars. But most people have to buy the OS with most software written for it, and most software is written for the OS with most users. So just because microsoft got there first they won control of the desktop. Ditto Intel nearly control the hardware market, though AMD do provide some competition.

WSL is intended to help them keep control by allowing people who need software only available on Linux to stay on windoze.

Nothing but US government intervention could break microsoft's monopoly (eg by requiring that the source code for any OS be made publicly available). And don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

It's a similar story with facebook (most people use it because most of their friends use it). And google etc.

Chris