On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:41:32AM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>On 14/06/17 00:44, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:39:46PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> > Package: installation-reports
>>>
>>> On running the installer manually from inside the OEM Windows
>>> installed, everything appeared to run smoothly up to the reboot
>>> following partition and formatting of the machines drives. On that
>>> boot the installer now running off the HDD began looping at the
>>> "Install base system" step, no errors or other signs of trouble -
>>> just display the progress bar for a few mins, then flick out to
>>> the step-by-step listing as if that step was done - but
>>> highlighting the same "Install base system" entry every time enter
>>> was pressed to start the step.
>>
>> Ummm... Question: you say "up to the reboot following partition and
>> formatting of the machines drives". debian-installer doesn't reboot
>> there. How did you prepare your USB stick, please?
>
>It was a vanilla download of the 64-bit netinst ISO burned to the USB stick.
OK. How did you write it, please? dd? cp? Something like unetbootin?
>Formatting was the latest step I'm sure worked fine. The default process was
>followed from there until reboot needed, then more default process.
>Everything up to the step "install base system" at least appeared to work -
>until that one did not.
There isn't a reboot step in the normal path of debian-installer. Oh,
hang on, sorry - I've just seen what I missed earlier in your initial
message: "On running the installer manually from inside the OEM
Windows". Did you use the win32-installer option to start
installation?
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com
< sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it
note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and
fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"
