Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-16 Thread David DLC
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:38 AM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > Messing with partitions involves the risk of breaking your system. But, > breaking and fixing your system is part of the FOSS hobby. > > > Do you have a backup of the Windows C:\ file system? > > I have a ba

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David DLC
quot; I think I typed fix, and that's the only reason I can think of for this error. On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:15 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > On 06/14/2017 07:00 PM, David DLC wrote: > > >http://imgur.com/a/o83Q

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-14 Thread David DLC
> > Using debian-8.7.1-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso burned to a USB flash drive: >> > > 1. Power down computer. Insert USB flash drive. Power up computer. Boot > the USB flash drive with the Debian installer (you stated you already know > how to do this). > > 2. "Debian GNU/Linux installer boot menu" --

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-14 Thread David DLC
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:18 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > Boot the Debian installer and get to a recovery console prompt. > > > Run lsblk (8) and determine the device node for your ~500 GB drive (it > should be /dev/sda, but you should confirm this): > > https:/

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-13 Thread David DLC
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > If it's MBR partitioned, you're already using up your four (4) > partitions (OS (C:\) ; Recovery(400MB); RECOVERY (D:\); Recovery > (800MB); and I'm not 100% sure if the EFI partition counts against you > too). > > You would need to remove so

Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-12 Thread David DLC
Hello again everyone! I wanted to thank everyone for the help on the "Debian Installation Issues" thread. I got the installer to start up through some fiddling around with settings that were discussed. I am actually not 100% sure which solution solved the problem, but I am glad it worked out! I h

Re: Debian installation issues

2017-06-08 Thread David DLC
> another go. I tried to rewrite the file, but it still did not work correctly. I don't know what is going on. I can't get the Debian installation page to appear, no matter what I do. On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 11:08:32AM

Re: Debian installation issues

2017-06-08 Thread David DLC
Thank you for all the replies! I haven't really used a mailing list before, so I'm not 100% sure I'm responding to the correct location. Do I hit "reply all" or just reply to the debian-user@lists.debian.org address? Anyway, I have disabled secure boot, but that didn't seem to solve the problem. M

Debian installation issues

2017-06-07 Thread David DLC
Hello, I have been trying to install Debian Jessie for about a week now. I have a 64-bit Windows 10 PC. I have shrunk the main C drive by 25 gbs, and turned off fast boot. I downloaded the AMD-64 small CD iso, and used win32 disk imager to write it to a 2 gb usb stick. However, when I boot my comp

Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem

2008-08-24 Thread dlc
> >I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please >post the output of the following commands: > >dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' > >stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm > >ls -l /usr/share/perl/ > muse:~# dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' iU perl 5.10.0