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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.<br>
<br>
All is now well and the new installation is up and running.<br>
<br>
My profound apologies and thanksl<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/16/2018 03:52 PM, Chris Punches
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:42 PM Stephen P. Molnar
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>>
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<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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<div>You probably want to use a <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://paste.silogroup.org" target="_blank">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 <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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>
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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)� 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 <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net"
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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>
<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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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
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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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