<div dir="ltr">Right.  When that happens, cycle through your framebuffer consoles (alt + ctrl + Fkey) to find where it&#39;s logging to, and we&#39;re looking for that output.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:42 PM Stephen P. Molnar &lt;<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

    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="m_-2856693434190395031moz-cite-prefix">On 08/16/2018 03:31 PM, Chris Punches

      wrote:<br>

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    <blockquote type="cite">

      <div dir="ltr">

        <div>You probably want to use a <a href="http://paste.silogroup.org" target="_blank">pastebin</a> to prevent

          peoples&#39; 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.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)<br>

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        <div><br>

        </div>

        <div>Sometimes what I do when I&#39;m testing things out is I&#39;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.</div>

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      <div class="gmail_quote">

        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:22 PM Stephen P. Molnar

          &lt;<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;

          wrote:<br>

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        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

          <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>

            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<br>

            /dev/sdb1ï¿½ *ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 2048 3890460671

            3890458624ï¿½ 1.8T 83 Linux<br>

            /dev/sdb2ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 3890462718 3907028991ï¿½ï¿½

            16566274ï¿½ 7.9Gï¿½ 5 Extended<br>

            /dev/sdb5ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 3890462720 3907028991ï¿½ï¿½

            16566272ï¿½ 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>

            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<br>

            /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<br>

            /dev/sdc2ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 41945715 976768064 934822350

            445.8G 83 Linux<br>

            <br>

            Which log?ï¿½ All of them are rather large.<br>

            <br>

            <div class="m_-2856693434190395031m_-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)ï¿½ Also what do the logs say on tty0?<br>

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              <br>

              <div class="gmail_quote">

                <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:11 PM Stephen

                  P. Molnar &lt;<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;

                  wrote:<br>

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                <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

                  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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.<br>

                    <br>

                    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.<br>

                    <br>

                    <div class="m_-2856693434190395031m_-5112416225822783091m_-7654734762697913079moz-cite-prefix">On

                      08/16/2018 02:51 PM, Chris Punches wrote:<br>

                    </div>

                    <blockquote type="cite">

                      <div dir="ltr">There&#39;s a built-in partitioning

                        tool in the graphical install wizard<br>

                      </div>

                      <br>

                      <div class="gmail_quote">

                        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:45 PM

                          Stephen P. Molnar &lt;<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank"><a class="m_-2856693434190395031moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a></a>&gt;

                          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&#39;m almost embarrassed

                          having to ask this question, but Google

                          doesn&#39;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?ï¿½ If so, <br>

                          any particular choice of partitions?<br>

                          <br>

                          As I said, I&#39;m rather embarrassed, but I

                          really don&#39;t know the answer.<br>

                          <br>

                          Thanks in advance.<br>

                          <br>

                          -- <br>

                          Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.<br>

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