On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 13:52:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. > > > > Check > > Ok > > > > 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key. > > > > Check, unless the disk is used, then you need to "use whole disk" > > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none you cannot > install anything to that disk. What did you get? You didn't say, so > now we are left wondering how you dealt with that situation. > > If it were me and there was no free space, I would delete that > partition and go from there.
Isn't use whole disk the equ? > > > > 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose > > > 'Logical'. ENTER. 'Beginning' ENTER. > > > > Check,,,, > > Ok. > > > > 4. Highlight 'Mount point:'. ENTER. Highlight '/home'. ENTER. > > > Choose 'Done setting up the partition'. ENTER. > > > > Check,,, > > Ok. > > > > 5 We are now back at the page in 2. Repeat 2, 3 and 4 but choose > > > / as the mount point. > > > > Check, for /opt > > It should not make any difference but you have now decided to deviate > from the instructions. We are now not in step. > > > > 6. Repeat 2 and 3. At 4 highlight 'Use as:' and choose 'swap > > > area'. Then 'Done setting up the partition'. > > > > Check, 17 gigabytes worth. > > I do not quite understand that. Did you specify 17 G of swap? Why a > prime number? :) > > > > 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. > > > > I wasn't doing that step 8. > > You **must** do it. It is obligatory. > > > > Then ENTER and agree to write the changes to disk on the next > > > page. > > > > And this is where it looped back. 100% of the time, and apparently > > not writing to the disk the partition table so composed. So you > > highlight the disk by its sda designation and restart, never getting > > a successfuil step 7. > > Something before step 7 is surely the cause. You have the syslog; we > don't. Free space was there on the disk, wasn't it? > > > > 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. > > > > Thank you Brian. This log I assume is readable from tty2? I don't > > recall it was available that early in the install previously, so I > > hadn't even tried. > > Of course it is readable; I gave you the command to do it. syslog is > available throughout the install. 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/201504031537.07821.ghesk...@wdtv.com