gapan wrote:Wait. A message is only marked as sent, when the recipient actually reads it. It will be in your outbox until then.

Thanks!
That has been a problem for me in forums.
I finally just decided to send and ignore why it stayed in the outbox.
Now I understand.

The best thing I ever learned in high school was typing.
It was not my favorite subject but it has been the most useful.

Use the typing program from time to time to practice the basics.

When you type, make an effort to keep your eyes on the screen.
You will find that not only do you see the ...

@fatmac,
Seems a common comment on the forums I've been on.

...and I'm in!

Thanks for letting me make notes here.

Re-torrented, md5 OK, wrote to a different USB, installed on sda6; however,
the problem was lilo-grub. (PEBKAC)

Did not install lilo, but forgot to correct the UUIDs in grub fstab :oops:
therefore, update-grub found nothing. Did that, update-grub and now to reboot.
Just a note before rebooting ...

Thanks gapan,
I'll try again today with a different USB, just in case.
And pay more attention to the installer.

downloaded Salix-Xfce-14.1.iso via torrent.
md5sum matched.
burned to USB with "dd if=Salix-Xfce-14.1.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4M;sync"
Boots OK, seemed to install to an ext4 extended partition OK,
but, at the end of install, I got a message saying that
file '/kernels/huge.s/bzimage' had an error ...