[colug-432] Installation Problem

Thu Aug 16 15:52:20 EDT 2018

Right.  When that happens, cycle through your framebuffer consoles (alt +
ctrl + Fkey) to find where it's logging to, and we're looking for that
output.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:42 PM Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> 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.ï¿½ I would get to the point that it causes the error and then
> flip back to it.ï¿½ï¿½ (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.ï¿½ 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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>>>> Consultant
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