Control: reassign -1 installation-reports Hi David On 2013-05-10 19:40:09, David wrote: > Package: Netinstaller Wheezy stable There is no such package. But from your report it seems that installation-reports is probably a good starting point. Thus reassigning there. > Version: stable version, 10/15/13 > > Hello, > I tried again to install Debian to a usb disk of 32 Gb through a laptop > (Acer Travelmate P253-E) from another usb with the net installation iso > provided at the main page of Debian project, the one in the top right > corner. This time with the new stable version. > All went perfectly well at 64 bits, except that it didn't prompt where > to put grub, and I thought it had gone to the internal hard disk and > corrupted the other grub there and that I would have to perform a boot > repair with the tool of the same name. Before rebooting, I went back to > main intaller menu and selected grub installation phase so to force grub > to be installed on sdb (the usb drive) and not on sda (internal disk). > There was no dialogue to answer "no" and select a different place for > grub, it just installed it again... aparently on sda (the light of the > hdd was on at the front of the laptop). Then I finished and rebooted > expecting the worse... but the laptop was ok! The grub inside had not > been overwritten by the Debian installer. Everything was as before. > Then, hoppefuly, I tried to boot to Debian on the usb disk through > selecting it at the bios prompt of boot selector: nothing. There was > nothing to boot to. So, again, it seemed that there was no grub to be > found. It dit not go to the installation source usb drive either because > it booted again perfectly to install again another system. > So there is no way I can have a Debian system, nor testing or stable, > installed in or through my laptop. > I hope this is useful to the project. > David Regards -- Sebastian Ramacher
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