Re: Installation failed - and failed again...
On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +0000, Brian wrote:
> From another mail in this thread:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00073.html
>
> Some work for you. This iGRUB failure should be repeatable. When it
> happens switch to console 4 with ALT-F4 and let us know what the last
> syslog message is. It might mention "ISO9660 file system".
>
> > If that was important, wouldn't the syslog be displayed automatically?
>
> It is displayed automatically. All you have to do is look at it.
>
> > How am I to know about the syslog?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en
When the stick with the Debian Live LXDE ISO is booted you reach a
splash screen displaying a number of options. There are four text
install entries. The advice above is applicable to them.
There are also four gui install entries, which may only become visible
by scrolling down the screen. With them you use CTRL-ALT-F4 to get to
the syslog console.
It transpires you have started another thread on exactly the same topic.
This is not the best of strategies, as it fragments the information
available to future users. However, in your mail at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00135.html
it becomes clear (to me at least; maybe others already realised this)
that you are running the install from within LXDE. My original
interpretation of
> 6 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB.
in your first post in this thread was that you were using one of the
splash screen's install methods. Anyway, from within LXDE you can press
the ESCAPE key once when d-i appears and choose 'Execute a shell'.
Within the shell type
cat /var/log/syslog
or
more /var/log/syslog
Now for
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00158.html
in which, if I understand you correctly, you state you have successfully
installed LXDE to a USB (hard) drive using a text install from the Live
splash screen. This is welcome news.
It should be noted though that there is an important difference between
the conditions under which your successful install took place and the
failed one described in your first post. You claim
> The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation
> successfully, use the text-based installer.
I'd not see this as being the problem, Both a text and a GUI install
should succeed (or fail) under the *same* conditions.
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