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

> 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.

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.

Thierry