Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-04 Thread Brad Alexander
Another thing I heard about the installer, and I'm not sure which one, because it didn't happen to me when I used the squeeze installer (netinst). I was listening to DistroWatch Weekly, and one of the reporters tried to build a squeeze box, and he mentioned in his review that the entry for the CD w

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:18:48PM +, Steven Ayre wrote: > > Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? > > Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to > the MBR of the USB stick. > > -Steve Thanks, the recovery mode does list the availab

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Mar 2011 at 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Mar 2011 at 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > to the effect > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this syste

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 10:19:21, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > to the effect > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. > Do you

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Steven Ayre
> Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to the MBR of the USB stick. -Steve On 3 March 2011 15:19, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debia

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > to the effect > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system.

Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no