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? -- 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"