On Fri 01 May 2015 at 19:17:55 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > > >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not > >> > work for you. However, all is not lost. > >> > > >> > It was mentioned earlier that the image has a second partition which > >> > could be used for holding firmware files. Unfortunately, the space > >> > remaining on it (~30K) is probably not sufficient for even one file. > >> > So a third partition has to created and you have to realise it must > >> > start after the end of the first partition. > >> > >> I created a partition using fdisk (gparted and disks give GPT error) > >> and that too just after the first partition (ignoring the default > >> block values provided by fdisk) but the installation bumped into "No > >> kernel modules found message"(see below or read the previous message > >> in this thread) > > > > Forgetting completely about creating partitions on anything - is this > > the behaviour when you boot from a USB stick which has had only the > > DVD image put on it with dd/cat/cp? > > Yes. I followed the official Debian Installation Guide which asked to > use dd. Even then gparted reported the GPT error. > "Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it > should be. This might mean that another operating system believes the > disk is smaller. Fix, by moving the backup to the end (and removing > the old backup)?" I went along the suggested "fix" options but > couldn't create another partition. -- The very first message of this thread
You may be misunderstanding me. If you put your DVD-1 image on a stick with dd again and boot, do you get the "No kernel modules found message" message? -- 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/01052015150657.a2fbba380...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk