Re: Confusion

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote:
> My apologies to those who feel that I have wasted their time and
> thanks to those who have tried to help.
>
> I don't know how I managed to start two threads but this whole
> business well illustrates the confusion that I originally wrote about.
> 
> The 'technical' question was 'Why does exactly following the process
> that has worked perfectly well for other distros, using exactly the
> same hardware, fail when I try to install Debian the same way?'

I would argue that that isn't a technical question. Have you read:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Have you tried booting from a livecd?
e.g. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

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