Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed
On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 00:58:32 EDT David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 00:26:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:25:01 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 03:25:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > I now know where the seriel convertors are so I can unplug them so I
> > could reinstall for about the 25th time if someone could tell me how
> > to skip formatting my raid10 /home partition, othewise I am stuck
> > building a working system to do my daily stuff from nothing.
> >
> > The installer blindly goes ahead and formats it every time, losing 6
> > months of work in OpenSCAD and thats pure bs IMNSHO. I'm halfway thru
> > building another raid10 I can hide from the installer, needing two
> > more terabyte samsung ssd's and a slot for aother controller which I
> > can free up by temporarily pulling my firewire card that runs my
> > movie camera with kino.
>
> I don't understand. You have /home on a separate partition(s), yes?
> Then why do you tell the installer anything about it/them?
> Just make sure that if you select it/them, they look like this:
>
>
>
> ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks
> ├─────────────────────────┐ │
> │ │ You are editing partition #1 of
> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda). This partition │ │ is formatted with the Ext4
> journaling file system. │ │
> │ │ Partition
> settings: │ │
> │ │
> Use as: do not use ←←←←←←←←←←←←←←← LEAVE THIS
> │ │
> │ │ Bootable flag: off
> │ │
> │ │ Resize the partition (currently
> 200.0 GB) │ │ Erase data on this
> partition │ │ Delete the
> partition │ │ Done
> setting up the partition ←←←←←←←←←←←← PRESS THIS │ │
> │ │ <Go
> Back> │ │
> │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> ────┘
>
>
> You don't need a /home *partition* to install Debian. Just let it
> create a /home/gene on the root filesystem, populated with the
> contents of /etc/skel/, as per usual. When it's done, then as root,
> set up your real home directory (or "assemble" it, or whatever you
> do) and use the /home directory that the installer created as mount
> point.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
> .
I've tried to do that David, several times. But the net installer just
keeps looping back to that until I use it, which formats it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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