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Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system



On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 12:23:56PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On 06/01/2017 10:24 AM, David Wright wrote:

> >   ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [!!] Partition disks ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

> >   ???              SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 60.0 GB ATA IC25N060ATMR04-0     

> >   ???              SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 1.0 GB Generic Flash Disk        

> The above ...[!!] Partition disks... is exactly what I'm seeing.  The 
> question comes down to which option do I take?  I only want to partition 
> sda, so that I don't wipe the other drives in the system.

The important part is that "sda" and "sdb" are not meaningful labels in
the general case.  You need to look at the rest of the information --
the size, the description, the model number, the existing partitions.
Use those to decide which disk to write to.


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