Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:58:51 Don Armstrong did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > and leave you with a miss-aligned disk that writes like its full of
> > > molsasses. Fdisk complains, gdisk will fix it, but what good does
> > > that do you when there is NO WAY AROUND the partitioner in the
> > > installer.
> >
> > Of course there is.
> >
> > In general, the partitioner can just use your existing partitions. If
> > for some reason, you've partitioned your existing partitions in a way
> > that it is unable to figure out, then you can just
> >
> > 1) use expert mode
> >
> > 2) skip the partitioner entirely
> >
> > 3) mount your partitions directly on /target,
> >
> > 4) continue with the install selecting the remaining steps manually in
> > order without rerunning the partitioner.
> >
> > If you're still having trouble, the actual logs will be more helpful.
> > See
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-miscel
> > laneous
>
> That is a decent writeup. Whats chances there is a printable .pdf of it
> someplace?
Why need a pdf? You should be able to print from your browser or from a
word processor in an office suite ( open office or libre office ) or
from a light weight processor like abiword.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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