Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 EDT David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT gene heskett wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > > > > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi
> > > > > system on too.
> > > > >
> > > > > The installer does not identify it by the same names, so how do
> > > > > I
> > > > > install to this drive w/o touching any of the other 6 samsung
> > > > > EVO
> > > > > series drives.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've never learn to love gnome, and the kde5 you offer is
> > > > > buggier
> > > > > than a 10 day old road kill in August, so this time is a text
> > > > > install to see if I can put TDE in for a desktop.
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I proceed? The partitioner does not identify the drives
> > > > > found
> > > > > adequatly. The drive is plugged into the mainboard controller,
> > > > > I
> > > > > think to port 5 of 6.
> > > >
> > > > Well, you post what it /does/ display. Then the experts here can
> > > > make
> > > > educated guesses, rather than just guessing.
> >
> > The only way I know how to do that is take a screen shot with my
> > camera. But thats not possible when running the D-I cuz w/o gimp,
> > its at least 5 megs bigger than the server will accept. BTDT.
>
> I don't see why you need a screenshot to post the name(s) of the
> disk(s) in the partitioner menu. It's just one line per disk, like:
>
> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA ST3500000AA
>
> taken from the listing posted in:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/06/msg00055.html
>
> > > > > I could label it, but the partitioner doesn't do labels.
> > > > > This drive is new, and has not anything written to it.
> > > >
> > > > Really? Which partitioner is that?
> >
> > The one in the D-I.
>
> The d-i partitioner lists PARTLABELs, as the cited listing showed:
>
> BIOS boot pa/BullBoot/Linux swap/Viva-A/Viva-B/Viva-Home
>
> But as your disk is new, I don't know what those PARTLABELs would be
> set to. If you booted a bullseye installation to capture the dmesg
> you quoted, then it might be simplest to partition the new disk at
> that time. You get the most flexibility that way. (I always prefer
> to partition my disks before I let the d-i loose on them.)
>
> > > > I was rereading Andrew's reply in the other thread, and his
> > > > appeal
> > > > "The more you can tell us what _EXACTLY_ you are doing, what you
> > > > see,
> > > > what errors come up and what you have done to try and fix them,
> > > > the
> > > > easier we'll all find it to come up with suggestions or actual
> > > > answers
> > > > for you."
> > > >
> > > > And I was thinking, that's not enough. We only hear a summary of
> > > > what
> > > > you think you're doing. I had a hypothesis for why you couldn't
> > > > avoid
> > > > the speech synthesiser, but it would require knowing every
> > > > keystroke
> > > > you use from powering on the machine. No chance of that.
> >
> > Not to mention it would be TL,DR to most.
>
> It can hardly be /too/ long, as you claim that the speech synthesiser
> starts yakking almost straightaway.
That, with only the keyboard and mouse plus a small b/w laser printer
plugged in, did not occur this time giving me hope it won't install that
crap. There is now, perhaps driven by my troubles, a manu selection for
that I purposely have not gone near.
Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and make
the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. Question then:
Since /home would be just a mount point for the raid10, how big does that
partition actually have to be? Is a single 4096k inode big enough? I
assume it will have to be big enough for it to contain /etc/skel.
> Cheers,
> David.
Thanks David.
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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