Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.
On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 02:59:43AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> 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.
> > .
>
Partition the disk as all in one: that will set up points on LVM for all directories. Separately, tag the RAID as mounting at /home - job done. There won't
_be_ anything in /home until a user is set up and you've already told it
to use a preexisting /home.
Partitioning it with gparted will complicate matters: UEFI will set up the
ESP partition for itself anyway.
Andy Cater
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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