On Thursday 16 July 2020 07:43:38 Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > On 16/07/2020 16:02, Lou Gogan wrote:
> >> You could install/use the character selector program as a temp measure
> >
> > On console / terminal?! No graphics available for Felmon.
> >
> > G
>
> yeah, that's the problem.
>
> however I got my '|'!
>
> I've booted to MX, specifically MX-19.2_ahs_x64.iso.
>
> it crashes out of the DE to the command line or rather stalls on F7
> but you get a command line at F1. the alt-gr+> trick works!
>
> I think it's detected wi-fi! iwconfig yields some output for wlan0.
> ah, 'nmcli device wifi list' shows various SSIDs!
>
> 'inxi -G' doesn't say much.
>
> so that's brought me far. in principle I could install a command-line
> only system.
>
> not sure how much more I want to struggle but maybe I can get a DE
> working.
>
> f.

Felix Miata mentioned something about installing TDE entirely by the 
command-line. Now where is he when we need him? 

Bill