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Re: Debian 11 on Sheevaplug?



On 08/06/2022 00:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, at 6:32 AM, Gilles wrote:
It ends with a single error : "partman: mkswap: can't open '/dev/sda5':
No such file or directory":

https://pastebin.com/raw/h0beZWnP
It looks like /dev/sd5 doesn't actually exist.  This is probably because the USB stick has an MBR partition table which by default only provides partitions 1-4.  You may need to pre-partition it with a GUID partition table.

Rick

Good call. After using Windows' diskpart*, I removed the MBR and converted to GPT. The installer went one step further… and failed:

https://postimg.cc/ns5XMQL7

Here's the log:

https://pastebin.com/raw/htYCmhS3

* https://www.diskpart.com/articles/remove-mbr-partition-3889i.html


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