<div dir="ltr">Is your ssd drive detected (lsblk or fdisk -l) Also what do the logs say on tty0?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:11 PM Stephen P. Molnar <<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<div class="m_-7654734762697913079moz-cite-prefix">On 08/16/2018 02:51 PM, Chris Punches
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<div dir="ltr">There's a built-in partitioning tool in the
graphical install wizard<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:45 PM Stephen P. Molnar
<<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm almost
embarrassed having to ask this question, but Google doesn't <br>
seem to be my friend.<br>
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I want to install Debian Stretch on a new, completely blank,
SSD. Do I <br>
have to partition the drive before running the Debian
installer?� If so, <br>
any particular choice of partitions?<br>
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As I said, I'm rather embarrassed, but I really don't know the
answer.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
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