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    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.<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/16/2018 03:31 PM, Chris Punches
      wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAB1WSFKVdme0a3famgzLK2tt6TgGnFEcW5pHYmtK0QnFD2-_Tw@mail.gmail.com"
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        <div>You probably want to use a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://paste.silogroup.org">pastebin</a> to prevent
          peoples' email clients from garbling it up.</div>
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        <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>
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        <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>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:22 PM Stephen P. Molnar
          &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;
          wrote:<br>
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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>
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                <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:11 PM Stephen
                  P. Molnar &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;

                  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>
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                    <div
                      class="m_-5112416225822783091m_-7654734762697913079moz-cite-prefix">On

                      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 class="gmail_quote">
                        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:45 PM
                          Stephen P. Molnar &lt;<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net"
                            target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a></a>&gt;


                          wrote:<br>
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                          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>
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                          Thanks in advance.<br>
                          <br>
                          -- <br>
                          Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.<br>
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