[colug-432] Installation Problem

Fri Aug 17 15:03:19 EDT 2018

Well, this was a red faced forehead slapper.  I wasn't scrolling down to 
the bottom of the installer page where I could select to go on in the 
installation process.

All is now well and the new installation is up and running.

My profound apologies and thanksl

On 08/16/2018 03:52 PM, Chris Punches wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <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.
>>>>                 Consultant
>>>>                 www.molecular-modeling.net
>>>>                 <http://www.molecular-modeling.net>
>>>>                 (614)312-7528 (c)
>>>>                 Skype: smolnar1
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