[colug-432] Installation Problem

Thu Aug 16 15:31:35 EDT 2018

You probably want to use a pastebin <http://paste.silogroup.org> to prevent
peoples' email clients from garbling it up.

The graphical installer should be using one of the TTYs (framebuffer) as a
runtime log.  I would get to the point that it causes the error and then
flip back to it.   (Ctrl + Alt + Fkey around to see if you can find it)

Sometimes what I do when I'm testing things out is I'll make the drive
available directly to a vm guest and use the vm guest to install the OS to
that drive.  This also gives you more options for copy/paste goodness.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:22 PM Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> The SSD is the first entry.
>
> root at AbNormal:/home/comp# fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
>
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x0bc7db76
>
> Deviceï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Bootï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Startï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½
> Endï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Sectorsï¿½ Size Id Type
> /dev/sdb1ï¿½ *ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 2048 3890460671 3890458624ï¿½
> 1.8T 83 Linux
> /dev/sdb2ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 3890462718 3907028991ï¿½ï¿½ 16566274ï¿½
> 7.9Gï¿½ 5 Extended
> /dev/sdb5ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 3890462720 3907028991ï¿½ï¿½ 16566272ï¿½ 7.9G
> 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>
> Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
> 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: 0x0003d403
>
> Deviceï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Bootï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Startï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Endï¿½ï¿½
> Sectorsï¿½ï¿½ Size Id Type
> /dev/sdc1ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 63ï¿½ 41945714ï¿½
> 41945652ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 20G 83 Linux
> /dev/sdc2ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 41945715 976768064 934822350 445.8G 83 Linux
>
> Which log?ï¿½ All of them are rather large.
>
> On 08/16/2018 03:13 PM, Chris Punches wrote:
>
> Is your ssd drive detected (lsblk or fdisk -l)ï¿½ 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.ï¿½ 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.ï¿½ 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?ï¿½ 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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