[colug-432] Installation Problem

Thu Aug 16 15:42:13 EDT 2018

The installer found the new SSD as sda, as well as the other drives on 
the platform in the order in which they are installed, but went into a 
loop when I attempted to format the driver.

On 08/16/2018 03:31 PM, Chris Punches wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
>>>
>>>             -- 
>>>             Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
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