Re: Failed installs

On 19 April 2016 at 22:04, pcr1 <pcr@pcrt.us> wrote:

Yes and that works fine. I've ordered a new drive to see if that helps. PCR

If your current drive works with Ubuntu, why not try installing ubuntu first in one partition and then debian in a second one.

This sounds a bit voodoo like but maybe debian will prefer sitting on a different region of the disk - and then work OK.

Regards

On 04/19/2016 05:53 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote:

On 18 April 2016 at 18:12, pcr1 <pcr@pcrt.us> wrote:

I have for some time been, and after many attempts remain, unable to install Debian, which I previously have used for many years. The failures occur during "select and install", about a third of the way through, but not always at the same place. My terabyte disk is partitioned with /boot of 1gB, / of 500 gB, 16 gB of swap, and the rest as /home, with about 200M not used. I have 8 gB of ram. Ubuntu-gnome installs easily and functions correctly.

If you can suggest anything I would appreciate it. This is just bewildering to me. Thanks,

Have you tried a live cd with debian on it?

Regards

MF

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