Re: 3rd new wheezy install
Arch Linux doesn't even have an installer. You just do your own thing. That
might suit you better.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide
Lisi
On Thursday 05 February 2015 22:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday, February 05, 2015 04:09:58 PM David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Darac Marjal (mailinglist@darac.org.uk):
> > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, February 03, 2015 05:01:46 AM Darac Marjal wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >
> > > [cut]
> > >
> > > > My point in all this is that the installer WILL NOT ALLOW you, in any
> > > > mode, to just format and label a partition and use it. Try to skip
> > > > the partitioner and go on to the next step it will NOT allow. The
> > > > only way you can get past that is to allow it to write a broken
> > > > partition table So ATM, I have no clue if this drive is partition
> > > > synchronized so that the 2 partitioms on it, / & swap, are in fact
> > > > sector aligned.
> >
> > To Gene: you don't "skip the partitioner". What you do is instruct the
> > partitioner to make no changes to the disks in your machine, as
> > described below.
> >
> > [snipped most of this detailed explanation]
>
> Why, the results are there in what nyou snipped.
>
> > > So, now I'm back at the top level of the partitioner. The layout of my
> > > disk is shown again. This time, the last column of the table of
> > > partitions shows that partition #1 will be used as "/", and partition
> > > #5 will be used as "swap".
> >
> > I have done much the same just now with my old wheezy netinst CD, with
> > one difference. As my smallest computer has 512MB memory, I usually
> > skip the swap partition too as it save rewriting the label afterwards.
> > (Allowing the partitioner to initialise it clears the label.)
> >
> > So here's the final screen, ready for installation on partition 2:
> >
> > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 60.0 GB ATA ...serial number or whatever...
> > #1 primary 20.0 GB B ext4
> > #2 primary 20.0 GB K ext4 /
> > #3 primary 19.0 GB ext4
> > #4 primary 1.0 GB swap
> >
> > Undo changes to partition
> > Finish partitioning and write changes to disk.
>
> And you tab highlited this last line & hit enter? That is when my
> partition table gets wrecked.
>
> > (For people who don't use this method of installation, the B is the
> > boot flag that happens to be set on sda1, the K means Keep the data
> > on sda2 (which I emptied, except lost+found), and / means this will be
> > the root partition. sda1/3/4 will be untouched as they were all set
> > to Do Not Use.)
> >
> > > If I now wanted to proceed with installation I would scroll down to
> > > "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk". This would *NOT ALTER
> > > THE PARTITION TABLE*, it would merely format the partitions (#1 would
> > > me made ext4 and #5 would be re-initialised as swap). Installation
> > > would then proceed.
> >
> > After pressing return on the last line, the partitioner raises its
> > eyebrows because there's no swap, and no partition to be formatted.
> > After OKing "Continue with the installation?" I can switch to the log
> > on VC4 and see that no partition table is written, no partition gets
> > formatted, and the log shows it:
>
> What is this VC4? CTL+ALT+F2-3-4 did nothing. Is there another magic key
> combo?
>
> > INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected <--- from when you pressed
> > "Partition disks" kernel: EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with
> > ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro ... stuff while it prepares
> > for the next step ...
> >
> > I have no idea if Gene did this, or else something completely
> > different, but he does seem to be unsable to provide a *precise*
> > narrative of what he did and where it failed. I can only assume
> > (from the statement quoted above) that he tries to skip the
> > "partitioner step" ALTOGTHER, and obviously that's going to fail
> > because the installer has no idea where to copy the installation
> > files to.
>
> That is precisely what I am trying to do, because any other path thru that,
> writes a duff partition table to a perfect ready disk. I don't care if it
> reformats it, but I want it to leave what I previously prepared alone. The
> next prompt in the sequence that I am trying to access is IIRC the format
> and proceed stage. It will not let me do it unless I allow it to write a
> duff partition table over the good one already prepared and formatted.
>
> > Cheers,
> > David.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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