Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 10:39 (UTC-0400):

> So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format it, 
> and just get on with it?

First select manual partitioning (all these are the same screen):
https://www.howtoforge.com/images/debian_stretch_minimal_server/debian-9-server-img-16.png
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/images/inst-partman.png
https://photonsphere.org/img/PartitionDisks.png

Then select the disk (should resemble one of these):
https://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Select-free-space-to-partition.png
https://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Overview-of-disks.png
https://photonsphere.org/img/PartitionDisksManual3.png

Choose the partition to configure (I think these are actually the same screen as
previous group, except with disk's partitions expanded):
https://www.pontikis.net/blog/media/2013/04/debian-7-wheezy-rc1-lamp-server-setup-step-by-step/post/VBX_DEBIAN7_31_partitioning.png
https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/assets/uploads/2013/10/debian_install-partition_disks-partitions_end.png

Here's the screen where the main business gets done, selecting mount point, format
type, mount options, volume label:
https://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Swap-Partition-Details.png
https://photonsphere.org/img/PartitionDisksBootPartitionSettings.png
https://www.pontikis.net/blog/media/2013/04/debian-7-wheezy-rc1-lamp-server-setup-step-by-step/post/VBX_DEBIAN7_25_partitioning.png

Select mount point detail screen:
https://www.pontikis.net/blog/media/2013/04/debian-7-wheezy-rc1-lamp-server-setup-step-by-step/post/VBX_DEBIAN7_26_partitioning.png

If I knew how to get my own screencaps from a text install on real hardware (not a
virtual machine) I would make my own web page to do what the Debian Handbook seems
can't be bothered to do. It would probably be somewhat like
https://www.pontikis.net/blog/debian-7-wheezy-rc1-lamp-server-setup-step-by-step
except the images would be big enough to see without having to open each in turn.
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