Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed
On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 01:23:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > [ … ]
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 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.
Because that statement is /so/ vague, I'll have to read /something/
into it. By "until I use it", do you mean that you have to use the
Partitioner Disks step, as seen here, before you can Install the
Base System?
│ Detect disks │
│ Partition disks │
│ Install the base system │
Cheers,
David.
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