On Thursday, February 05, 2015 04:09:58 PM David Wright wrote: > Quoting Darac Marjal (mailingl...@darac.org.uk): > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 03, 2015 05:01:46 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > My point in all this is that the installer WILL NOT ALLOW you, in any > > > mode, to just format and label a partition and use it. Try to skip > > > the partitioner and go on to the next step it will NOT allow. The > > > only way you can get past that is to allow it to write a broken > > > partition table So ATM, I have no clue if this drive is partition > > > synchronized so that the 2 partitioms on it, / & swap, are in fact > > > sector aligned. > > To Gene: you don't "skip the partitioner". What you do is instruct the > partitioner to make no changes to the disks in your machine, as > described below. > > [snipped most of this detailed explanation]
Why, the results are there in what nyou snipped. > > So, now I'm back at the top level of the partitioner. The layout of my > > disk is shown again. This time, the last column of the table of > > partitions shows that partition #1 will be used as "/", and partition > > #5 will be used as "swap". > > I have done much the same just now with my old wheezy netinst CD, with > one difference. As my smallest computer has 512MB memory, I usually > skip the swap partition too as it save rewriting the label afterwards. > (Allowing the partitioner to initialise it clears the label.) > > So here's the final screen, ready for installation on partition 2: > > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 60.0 GB ATA ...serial number or whatever... > #1 primary 20.0 GB B ext4 > #2 primary 20.0 GB K ext4 / > #3 primary 19.0 GB ext4 > #4 primary 1.0 GB swap > > Undo changes to partition > Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. > And you tab highlited this last line & hit enter? That is when my partition table gets wrecked. > (For people who don't use this method of installation, the B is the > boot flag that happens to be set on sda1, the K means Keep the data > on sda2 (which I emptied, except lost+found), and / means this will be > the root partition. sda1/3/4 will be untouched as they were all set > to Do Not Use.) > > > If I now wanted to proceed with installation I would scroll down to > > "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk". This would *NOT ALTER > > THE PARTITION TABLE*, it would merely format the partitions (#1 would > > me made ext4 and #5 would be re-initialised as swap). Installation > > would then proceed. > > After pressing return on the last line, the partitioner raises its > eyebrows because there's no swap, and no partition to be formatted. > After OKing "Continue with the installation?" I can switch to the log > on VC4 and see that no partition table is written, no partition gets > formatted, and the log shows it: > What is this VC4? CTL+ALT+F2-3-4 did nothing. Is there another magic key combo? > INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected <--- from when you pressed > "Partition disks" kernel: EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with > ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro ... stuff while it prepares > for the next step ... > > I have no idea if Gene did this, or else something completely > different, but he does seem to be unsable to provide a *precise* > narrative of what he did and where it failed. I can only assume > (from the statement quoted above) that he tries to skip the > "partitioner step" ALTOGTHER, and obviously that's going to fail > because the installer has no idea where to copy the installation > files to. That is precisely what I am trying to do, because any other path thru that, writes a duff partition table to a perfect ready disk. I don't care if it reformats it, but I want it to leave what I previously prepared alone. The next prompt in the sequence that I am trying to access is IIRC the format and proceed stage. It will not let me do it unless I allow it to write a duff partition table over the good one already prepared and formatted. > > Cheers, > David. 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/201502051708.38802.ghesk...@wdtv.com