On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that. > > It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem. > Re-reading this again...
> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. > > 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key. > > 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose > 'Logical'. ENTER. 'Beginning' ENTER. > > 4. Highlight 'Mount point:'. ENTER. Highlight '/home'. ENTER. Choose > 'Done setting up the partition'. ENTER. Humm, it just occured to me that I was defining a gig & small change as /boot first, then /,then /home, then /opt, then the remainder as swap. Can I infer from this that all other partitions must be defined first and then the last defined partition s/b "/" and that is the only way it will work? That would put / on an extended partition, but IIRC I had that condition once before, several years back without any excitement. I had always assumed that partitions s/b defined and reserved from the outside in. > 5 We are now back at the page in 2. Repeat 2, 3 and 4 but choose / as > the mount point. > > 6. Repeat 2 and 3. At 4 highlight 'Use as:' and choose 'swap area'. > Then 'Done setting up the partition'. > > 7. 'Finish partitioning and write changes to disk' is the final step > in partitioning on this page. But before doing it carry out step 8. > Then ENTER and agree to write the changes to disk on the next page. I should also relate that at this step, when it looped, it had erased the original partition table of a previously used disk, so it did write to the drive enough to clear the old table, but had not written a new one. Verified by bailing out and rebooting to a recent gparted cd, and finding the existing partition table had indeed been wiped. > 8. Switch to tty2 with ALT-F2 and do > cp /var/log/syslog /var/log/syslog-part1 > > >/var/log/syslog > > If there is any failure at step 7 (or before) you should have a record > in syslog which can be viewed with 'more /var/log/syslog'. > syslog-part1 will contain information on disk detection. 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> -- 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/201504031425.55886.ghesk...@wdtv.com