Hello, I've been having some problematic issues with the install of Debian
8. I'm trying to do a so called "Dual-Boot" with my Windows 10 dell laptop.
I've partitioned my disk and shrunk it to 125gb of free space. I have a
FAT32 usb stick that holds 16gb on it. So when I partitioned one of my disk
for the Dual Boot I labelled it as NTFS, I'm not sure if that was the right
decision on my part. So after all that's done I burned the Debian 8 iso
image onto my FAT32 usb thumb drive. My architecture is amd64 if that
matters.
A few minutes later when the burning of the iso was finished I restarted my
laptop. Then I went into my boot-up interface, which than I selected my
usb's name. It made a loud beep noise then brought me into a little
graphical interface that shown "Install" and "Graphical install", there
were more but I've kind of forgot the names of the other options that were
listed. So then I clicked 'graphical install', it loaded me into the
configuring of the network and selecting were I live.
It had a couple options of how'd I wanted to do the partition, I clicked
"Manual". Another page pops up, now it shows me the partitions on my
computer. I've clicked the partition that was made for the Dual Boot. After
I've done that it showed me a new page of options that had some things on
it. There was a "Use as:" option and there was a "Bootable flag:" option,
the "Bootable flag" was set to off. So I clicked it, and nothing had
happened but it said a few fast lines of words that I didn't catch on time
sadly. Also back to the "Use as:" option, I first used it as ext4 and set
the 'mount point' to "/", which that means the root file system. I saved
the changes to the partition and started writing the files from my usb onto
the partition I've just edited.
When that's done it said I will need to remove my usb from my laptop so the
install runs smoothly. I'd done exactly that, but before I removed it, I
clicked "ok". It soon rebooted, and while it was rebooting I removed the
usb. It had redirected me to the Debian graphical interface again, but this
time it showed me something different. It had showed me if I wanted to just
"Run" it or run it in something that looked like "dev/sda". There was more
to the "dev/sda" but I didn't get a good look at the whole thing.
I had tried both just a plain old simple "Run" and the other option
"dev/sda". When I tried both it loaded me into a terminal type environment
and it said something like "Swap failed to swap". But all the other things
that were listed were labelled with "OK". Then it redirected me into "Opps
something went wrong, please contact a system administrator for
assistance", it had a bright white screen behind the black letters. I had
nothing to worry about, my windows 10 operating system was not damaged so
it didn't affect me. Then I went back to choose a file system and this time
I had chosen "swap" went through the same process and it gave me "Opps
something went wrong, please contact a system administrator for assistance".
Then I labelled FAT32 for the file system on the partition and the same
thing happened like the last time. I'm really confused, if you can and or
have the time please guide me for the Dual Boot installation process. I've
been a big follower of Debian Linux for 3 years. I don't know why this time
I'm having so many problems. Please respond when you receive this
message....Thank you