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? 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