Re: package managers problem
On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 08:29:55 (-0400), Maurice Heskett wrote:
> I have a gent on the Sheldon list at groups.io who would like to see
> how I solved a broke into pieces compound on my bigger lathe, linuxcnc
> can do all that and then some w/o a compound, so mine is now a block
> of a cast iron, machined to be the same height as the broken compound
> with a quick change tool holder on top of it. Because the
> net-installer does not identify the drives its going to format, and
> formating the raid cannot be permitted, all that stuff has to be
> removed and a reinstall done to only the sata_1 drive, it takes me a
> couple hours on my hands and knees to dismantle all that to protect it
> from the installs appetite to format everything in sight. Then about
> 2 hours to put it all back together when the install has been
> finished.
I don't understand why you say that the net-installer can't identify
the drives (and partitions) that it's going to format. You seem to
have been using GPT disks for at least a year now, and they have
partition labels (PARTLABEL) which are listed by the installer,
as seen here:
│ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA ST3500413AS ▒ │
│ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ▒ │
│ > #1 3.1 MB K biosgrub BIOS boot pa ▒ │
│ > #2 520.1 MB B EFI System ▒ │
│ > #3 524.3 MB ext2 Linux swap ▒ │
│ > #4 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-A ▒ │
│ > #5 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-B ▒ │
│ > #6 436.1 GB Viva-Home ▒ │
│ > 7.7 kB FREE SPACE ▒ │
│ ↓ │
You can set the partition names in fdisk by selecting the expert
menu with x and using the n command.
> But since I'm stuck in root, and my history with that net-installer is
> spotty at best, please give me a link to the bookworm net-install
> image, which I'll then dl and put on a fresh dvd, maybe it will work
> better than the 11.2 version I've been using. One of the things it
> still does is install orca and brltty w/o asking even if that option
> is skipped in the menu.
That would mean coping with changes and new features in bookworm
at the same time as trying to restore your system to something
perhaps resembling a normal Debian system. (I have no idea why
only you have ever reported undesired installation of the screen
reader system.)
Cheers,
David.
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