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Re: squeeze fails to install

On 02/17/2011 07:11 PM, Neal Hogan wrote:

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius<dredmorbius@gmail.com>  wrote:

on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealhogan@gmail.com) wrote:

I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given
the significance of the situation: installation.

Every installation medium that I've tried fails. Those trials include
net-install-iso, mini-iso, full-diskOne-iso. . .with both linux and
bsd kernels.

What information do those that know anything about the install of the
latest "stable" release need to know to fix this issue? There have
been a few (if not several) other threads dealing with installation of
squeeze. Was this tested?

How about:

  - System onto which you're installing.

I'm not sure what "onto" means. I'm attempting the x86 install.


  - Specific error message(s) encountered during installation.


You saw this in my other thread. it fails oto partition.


Background: I've had Lenny on this particualr machine
installing/running just fine. I was able to upgrade from Lenny to
Squeeze with no problem. The fresh install is the problem. My machine
is an early 2000's HP pavilion (ze4400). Why doesn't the install
script partition my hard drive?

Is this the only part of the installation which fails to occur as
expected?


expected?


Is a filesystem created at all?


Dunno . . . it stops the install. As I've said elsewhere, the
partition failure takes place after the root partition creation.


Is the hard drive already partitioned?


ya (with Lenny), but I don't care about those partitoins. I want to
wipe them out.


How large is the hard drive?


100G


Does the rest of the installation complete or not?


Dunno. . . I didn;t feel it reasonable to contintue with the instal if
my disk isn't partitioned.


Have you tried shelling out (alt-F2 generally) to partition and create
filesystems yourself?

yes, fdisk/cfdisk is not an available comand.


Are you using the graphical or console installer?


There was no option. It appeared graphical.


Installation messages are logged as well:

    http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en


As you can see, I'm rather frustrated. I've enjoyed the debian
experience up to this point. I don't mind working to get things done,
but my issue seems to be a rather big deal (i.e., squeeze can't
install on a machine that has worked).

I understand that the majorty of folks on this list are not devs, but
the devs who do subscribe *should* take notice. No?

As others have noted:  file a bug against debian-installer.  That's how
devs hear about things.  This list is for user-to-user (and occasionally
dev-to-user) support.

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If you only want this program on the drive, why not use GParted (which is probably on the installation disk, or if not, you can d/l it separately and make a bootable disk with it on) and clean the drive off and then make the typical 3 partitions 
using GParted, and format them, 2 with ext4 and 1 small one with swap.  Then
when you go to install squeeze, all that would be there already.
Or if there is something else on the drive that you want to keep, then move it so it exists in some contiguous location, and make the 3 formatted partitions 
as above.
(I wonder why so many are having trouble with this. I installed squeeze when it was still testing and had no trouble at all. And this on a disk that already had 
PCLOS and WinXP on it, and a bunch of uncommitted space. I did not have to
make any partitions ahead of time.)

--doug

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