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The link provided by Head_on_a_Stick says you should be able to see a boot menu if you press the delete key during the initial stage of the boot.
Does a boot menu appear if you do that?

Would it be possible to use a USB memory stick or a USB hard drive?

I often use a USB hard drive with Linux and Windows, but not both at the same time.

Well if the files are corrupt that's likely your issue. Would an older version of LibreOffice think that files produced with a newer version are corrupted? Is there any chance that you could export the files to a system using a newer version of LibreOffice ... save them in an older format ... then ...

What version of USB port does each computer have? If they have different versions of USB ports, the speed might be different. There are at least three versions of the USB standard that I know of: USB 1.0, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0. Or maybe it isn't a hardware problem. Does the software on the computer in...

Started computing back in the CP/M and DOS days. Didn't really have enough money to get serious with it. Still don't. First received Slackware many years ago on something like 20 floppies. I never got that installed. Sometime around 2005 I installed Linux (Debian?) on an ailing Win95 system with no ...

No, not evolution. But retaining unixness, brothers in free *nix. Software is always changing. Some old packages are abandoned rather than being updated. Popular packages are updated to eliminate bugs and threats. Operating systems change too. I understand your point that some standards should not ...

Ah thanks. I don't know why I didn't try apt-get again rather than going back to the GUI.

The system did update and upgrade. Now at Debian 7.6 -- just as you suggested it would be. Thanks.

All this causes me to wonder what percentage of Debian users would prefer choices that avoid using systemd?
Would there be enough deserters to create a demand for a version of Debian that uses a more gradual evolution?

Found an example of etc/apt/sources.list and edited mine to match. deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main deb http://security.debia...

Here is the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list # #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:41]/ wheezy main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:41]/ wheezy main deb http://security.debia...

Went back to the desktop with the hope that it would work now that it has the package list updates.
The Gnome "software update" program is working now.
I know it is doing security updates. Don't know yet if it will let me add new programs.

Even the GUI installer offers a handful of partitioning choices if you choose not to accept the defaults ... including manual partitioning. Being a novice I looked at the choices and went back to the defaults. Not much on the system so I can always reinstall if the defaults come to annoy me.

Installed Wheezy with a LiveUSB stick as the source. Didn't know what to put in for network settings. System is temporarily connected with a Cat5 cable to a friend's router. IceWeasel works, software update doesn't. System is basically a minimal system which badly needs more software. (This doesn't ...

A CRT won't keep you safe: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html You may be able to collect the signals emanating from a CRT, but you can't hack into the CRT and change what the CRT is doing. Flat panel vs. CRT isn't the issue. It is the "smart" net...

Then you love the home products that offer being able to controlled over the Internet? Connectivity gone too far perhaps? Regarding "smart" appliances: I often watch DVDs on my WinVista laptop. (Sorry.) One day I did a fairly global search for a file and ended up with a hit in a directory ...

So if you have a 2 byte integer containing the value 32766, or 7ffe in hex, a big endian system would store it as fe7f while little endian would store it as 7ffe. Where this matters is when a big endian system is transmitting data to a little endian system. The protocol would have to take that into...

I agree that it seems to be an important issue, but in my opinion the post is way too long with too many personal remarks. I still haven't read the whole post. Sorry.

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