Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed
On Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:02:10 EDT David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 19:30:37 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:34:01 EDT David Wright wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > yes, it will not proceed w/o it.
> >
> > > │ Detect disks │
> > > │ Partition disks │
> > > │ Install the base system │
>
> ISTR your having problems driving the partitioner back in 2015.
> You need that partitioning step at the very least in order to indicate
> on which partition to install the base system. But that doesn't mean
> you have to format any of the partitions. That's why there's an option:
> "Format the partition: no, keep existing data"
>
> Obviously, it would complicate configuring a system if you actually
> went ahead with installing the root filesystem onto a partition that
> still contained a load of old files from some previous installation.
>
> So I'd be interested to see the screen display at the point where you
> tell it to "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk". That's
> at the bottom of the screen that displays all the partitions, that
> looks vaguely like this:
>
> ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks
> ├─────────────────────────┐ │
> │ │ This is an overview of your
> currently configured partitions and mount │ │ points. Select a
> partition to modify its settings (file system, mount │ │ point,
> etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to │ │
> initialize its partition table.
> │ │
> │ │ Configure iSCSI volumes
> ↑ │ │
> ▒ │ │ Encrypted volume (sda5_crypt) - 31.4 GB Linux
> device-mapper (cryp ▒ │ │ > #1 31.4 GB f ext4
> / ▒ │ │ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA
> ST3500000AA ▒ │ │ > 1.0 MB
> FREE SPACE ▒ │ │ > #1 3.1 MB
> K biosgrub BIOS boot pa ▒ │ │ > #2
> 520.1 MB F ext2 BullBoot /boot ▒ │ │ >
> #3 524.3 MB ext2 Linux swap ▒ │ │
> > #4 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-A ▒
> │ │ > #5 31.5 GB K crypto Viva-B (sda5_crypt)
> ▒ │ │ > #6 436.1 GB Viva-Home
> ▒ │ │ > 7.7 kB FREE SPACE
> ▒ │ │ SCSI7 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 1.0 GB Multiple Card Reader
> ▒ │ │
> ▒ │ │ Undo changes to partitions
> ▮ │ │ Finish partitioning and write
> changes to disk ↓ │ │
> │ │ <Go Back>
> │ │
> │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> ────┘
>
> In this particular instance, my real, encrypted /home on partition #6,
> the unencrypted buster on #4, the random-encrypted swap almost filling
> #3, and Grub's playground in #1 will all be left undisturbed by the
> "write changes to disk" step. Only partition #2 (for unencrypted /boot)
> and the encrypted filesystem inside partition #5 (for /) will be
> formatted.
>
> At the end of the d-i, there will be a vestigial /home/me containing
> three dotfiles in the root filesystem, and I will login as root to
> set up the script that decrypts partition #6 and mounts it on /home,
> "concealing" /home/me. Also there will be a swap configuration to add
> to /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab.
>
> The d-i doesn't have to know about any of this. It would be sensible
> for you to treat your raid10 /home partition similarly.
I might give this install one more re-install, after I swap a 240G
kingston SSD for a 1t samsung and back up my present raid10's contents to
it so I've a backup/recovery at least possible.
But I have other alligators snapping at me too so it won't be for a
couple weeks yet.
Thanks David, take care and stay well.
> Cheers,
> David.
>
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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