[colug-432] Installation Problem

Chris Punches punches.chris at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 15:13:16 EDT 2018


Is your ssd drive detected (lsblk or fdisk -l)  Also what do the logs say
on tty0?

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:11 PM Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> True.� However, when the installer got to the point of my telling it to
> go ahead and format the drive it went back to the previous page.
>
> Just to check the drive I downloaded the live distribution, burned it to a
> cd and it ran without any problems.� Unfortunately, there was no option
> to install the OS.
>
> On 08/16/2018 02:51 PM, Chris Punches wrote:
>
> There's a built-in partitioning tool in the graphical install wizard
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:45 PM Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm almost embarrassed having to ask this question, but Google doesn't
>> seem to be my friend.
>>
>> I want to install Debian Stretch on a new, completely blank, SSD. Do I
>> have to partition the drive before running the Debian installer?� If
>> so,
>> any particular choice of partitions?
>>
>> As I said, I'm rather embarrassed, but I really don't know the answer.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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