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Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

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On Sunday 22 November 2015 16:38:02 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > > > > > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for
> > > > > > > doing the rescue, not overwriting the existing system? 
> > > > > > > I'm happy to change my expectation if that's the case.   
> > > > > > > Maybe by the end of it there is a more complete system,
> > > > > > > e.g., with bash.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > In the meantime I've downloaded the first CD of the Debian
> > > > > > > live CD's. Ross
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Wanna bet?
> > > > >
> > > > > I think perhaps we should be less subtle (than this and my
> > > > > ??). Ross, there is only one Live CD.  Well, for different
> > > > > architectures there is more than one - but it sounds as though
> > > > > you have downloaded the wrong CD.
> > > >
> > > > Gee. Can't a guy have *any* fun anymore?
> > >
> > > Well, it felt a little unfair once there were two of us!  I had
> > > already felt that I had been less than fair.  Sorry. :-(  But come
> > > on, admit it. We could have been just a tincy* bit more helpful. 
> > > ;-)
> > > Lisi
> > > * https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teensy
> >
> > Why do I feel like I'm back in Freshman English class?
>
> Not you.  When I use slightly obscure English I try to remember that I
> am on an international list and explain.  I did in fact look up
> "tincy" to see whether people could look it up for themselves, and
> even most of the Internet didn't know it.  So I referenced something
> that explained the meaning in which I had used it - which was not as a
> girl's name!  I used it in the first place because you would know it.
>
> And Ross hadn't given any sign of having understood what either of us
> was on about.  I thought we would get an ("Oh!  Of course!")
>
> Or maybe I just remind you of your Freshman English teacher.  ;-) 
> (I'm probably old more than enough.  Though I probably speak the wrong
> kind of English.)
>
> Lisi

I think I knew what you meant Lisi, but on this side of the small pond we 
spell it teensy, meaning a very small quantity of something.  Like a 
pinch of salt in a recipe.  Thats normally less than a dash unless you 
shake the container really hard. :)

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-20 20:20 +0100
  Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Chris Edwards <cedwards.debian@cedwards.geek.nz> - 2015-11-20 20:50 +0100
  Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 21:00 +0100
    Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 21:20 +0100
    Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-20 21:20 +0100
      Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 22:50 +0100
      Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 23:00 +0100
      Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-21 01:10 +0100
        Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 10:10 +0100
          Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-21 19:10 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-21 22:10 +0100
        Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-21 23:40 +0100
          Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 00:00 +0100
          Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-22 21:40 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-11-22 22:00 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 22:40 +0100
              Correction Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 22:50 +0100
              Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-23 00:00 +0100
                Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-23 01:10 +0100
                Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-23 01:40 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-23 20:10 +0100
              Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 23:10 +0100
              Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-24 19:50 +0100
  Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 21:00 +0100
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