Re: SOLVED
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote:
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen:
A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian
installer. Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again.
A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot
image.
I thought about suggesting that in my last post, but did not want to
complicate things. A key advantage of using a CD-R disc is that you can
verify the disc contents and/or checksum against the ISO and/or checksum
now and in the future. This is not true for a USB flash drive, because
the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB flash drive when
it runs.
This is already the third time, i am restarting the installation
process, due to my false assumptions about the intelligence within the
installer.
The last time, i was quite happy until i came to notice, that partitions
were not aligned with physical sector boundaries, which i assumed would
be elementary best practice.
I chose manual partitioning and the Debian installer aligned the
partitions to 2**20 byte boundaries:
2024-04-02 04:07:16 root@laalaa ~
# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.9
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.209-2 (2024-01-31)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2024-04-02 04:08:18 root@laalaa ~
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 55.9 GiB, 60022480896 bytes, 117231408 sectors
Disk model: INTEL SSDSC2CW06
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x544032f5
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1953791 1951744 953M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1953792 3907583 1953792 954M 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3907584 29298687 25391104 12.1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 29298688 117229567 87930880 41.9G 83 Linux
But apart from losing some of my illusions the hard way, all is well.
A big thank you to all the crowd offering suggestions and encouragement.
so long, DdB
I'm glad you were able to install Debian. :-)
David
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