<div dir="ltr"><div>You probably want to use a <a href="http://paste.silogroup.org">pastebin</a> to prevent peoples' email clients from garbling it up.</div><div><br></div><div>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)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:22 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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The SSD is the first entry.<br>
<br>
root@AbNormal:/home/comp# fdisk -l<br>
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors<br>
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>
<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors<br>
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>
Disklabel type: dos<br>
Disk identifier: 0x0bc7db76<br>
<br>
Device���� Boot����� Start������� End��� Sectors� Size Id Type<br>
/dev/sdb1� *��������� 2048 3890460671 3890458624� 1.8T 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sdb2������ 3890462718 3907028991�� 16566274� 7.9G� 5 Extended<br>
/dev/sdb5������ 3890462720 3907028991�� 16566272� 7.9G 82 Linux swap
/ Solaris<br>
<br>
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.<br>
<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors<br>
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disklabel type: dos<br>
Disk identifier: 0x0003d403<br>
<br>
Device���� Boot��� Start������ End�� Sectors�� Size Id Type<br>
/dev/sdc1������������ 63� 41945714� 41945652��� 20G 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sdc2������ 41945715 976768064 934822350 445.8G 83 Linux<br>
<br>
Which log?� All of them are rather large.<br>
<br>
<div class="m_-5112416225822783091moz-cite-prefix">On 08/16/2018 03:13 PM, Chris Punches
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Is your ssd drive detected (lsblk or fdisk -l)�
Also what do the logs say on tty0?<br>
</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:11 PM Stephen P. Molnar
<<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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08/16/2018 02:51 PM, Chris Punches wrote:<br>
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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>>
wrote:<br>
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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
As I said, I'm rather embarrassed, but I really don't
know the answer.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
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