On Wednesday 03 April 2019 01:20:51 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 April 2019 03.50:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 April 2019 18:36:14 Dan Youngquist wrote: > > > On 04/02/2019 01:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Is this with Gnome? Yes, I've see that too. Get rid if Gnome > Not a lot of choices, xfce maybe. > > 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. yes. I always install on a new drive, so my data is there, ready to copy over. > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting 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>