On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:58:51 Don Armstrong did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > and leave you with a miss-aligned disk that writes like its full of > > > molsasses. Fdisk complains, gdisk will fix it, but what good does > > > that do you when there is NO WAY AROUND the partitioner in the > > > installer. > > > > Of course there is. > > > > In general, the partitioner can just use your existing partitions. If > > for some reason, you've partitioned your existing partitions in a way > > that it is unable to figure out, then you can just > > > > 1) use expert mode > > > > 2) skip the partitioner entirely > > > > 3) mount your partitions directly on /target, > > > > 4) continue with the install selecting the remaining steps manually in > > order without rerunning the partitioner. > > > > If you're still having trouble, the actual logs will be more helpful. > > See > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-miscel > > laneous > > That is a decent writeup. Whats chances there is a printable .pdf of it > someplace?
Why need a pdf? You should be able to print from your browser or from a word processor in an office suite ( open office or libre office ) or from a light weight processor like abiword. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501210115.25334.ghesk...@wdtv.com -- Bob Holtzman Giant intergalactic brain-sucking hyperbacteria came to Earth to rape our women and create a race of mindless zombies. Look! It's working! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150122195216.gb11...@cox.net