I've encounteredseveral problems while trying to install Ascii. - failure to detect CD-rom drive (intermittent).- failure-to-mount partitions – which caused bizzare behavior whileusing the Graphical install.(once). (the failure-to-mount problemmigrated to the next drive on the next pass for several partitions).)BTW, screen shots taken during Graphical mode do not appear to bepreserved after installation.- debootstrap problem indicating not a clean disk. Reformatting didnot help-(on that install pass). (once).- the install process, just before finishing, dumped me out into aTTY1 terminal. (once.)- after 'successful' install, the system runs extremely slowly. (wicdwindow took ~18 seconds to open.)(consistent failure).- wicd does not find any access points. (consistent failure). I began to suspect that something was wrong with the netinstall.isoUSB thumb drive even though the sha256sum is always correct. Isuspected that the data rate might have something to do with theproblem. I burned the netinstall.iso to a 128GB USB 3.0 thumb drive.I was sure that it was fast enough to keep the USB 2.0 bus saturated,and that this might make the USB device driver happy(er).I have now done nine installs without error. It appears that the USBdata stream is being corrupted and without always crashing the systemin the process. Could it be that data under-runs or other speedrelated problems, are causing unexpected behavior of the devicedriver?I would like to look into this more deeply but I don't know yet howto break into debug mode, or to just look at /var/log/syslog at thepoint of failure to help identify the problem(s). Any help would beappreciated. Still learning. Feel free to contact me off list. The issues surrounding the use of FAT partitions are explained in aprevious post but the jist is this:- partman does not offer a force-format option for FAT partitions.This means that the only way to (re-)format a FAT partition is tochange the fs type. BTW, if you don't format a FAT partition duringthe install process, partman will scan it and declare an "uncorrectederrors found” error. I don't know what this means or how it mightaffect the installation process later on if left uncorrected. - partman's resize option for FAT partitions does not work correctlyin all cases. The workaround is to change it to an ext(i) fs type,resize it as desired, and then change it back to a FAT fs. This, ofcourse, causes a format operation.
Thanks for devuan.
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