Hi, Why not just put a single 2 TB partition on the drive and install Linux to that, and then make a partition, or multiple partitions after you install Debian. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: Henry Chang To: Samuel Thibault ; [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2025 11:08 PM Subject: How to install Debian 12 on a 5T external hard drive
Hi Samuel, Long time no contact, how's everything? I bought a 5T external hard drive and tried to install Debian 12 on it manually. But I could NOT set up the /root partition as bootable, and the installation program did NOT allow me to set up each partition in EXT4 format. The partition table I set up is: /dev/sda1 1k unused (it was created automatically) /dev/sda2 500M EFI System Partition (ESP):formatted as FAT32 /dev/sda3 20G /root formatted as EXT4, but I could NOT set it as bootable /dev/sda4 40G /home formatted as EXT4 /dev/sda5 1G formatted as SWAP /dev/sda6 4.5T /data formatted as EXT4 /dev/sda7 256K unused The sudo fdisk -l result is: Disk /dev/sda: 4.55 TiB, 5000981077504 bytes, 9767541167 sectors Disk model: One Touch w/PW Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 464295B6-9A0B-4A04-B689-AFE30DFF573C Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System /dev/sda2 1026048 63940607 62914560 30G Linux filesystem /dev/sda3 63940608 189769727 125829120 60G Linux filesystem /dev/sda4 189769728 193964031 4194304 2G Linux filesystem /dev/sda5 193964032 9767540735 9573576704 4.5T Linux filesystem Please tell me how to install correctly. THanks. Regards Henry Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> 於 2022年10月23日 週日 下午5:55寫道： Henry Chang, le dim. 23 oct. 2022 17:54:03 -0400, a ecrit: > What is the debian-accessibility mailing list? Google would lead you to https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/ > Yes, I have tesseract installed. Please tell me how to use tesseract to > transform a pdf file by bash commands. Thanks. I have no idea how to do that, but the debian-accessibility list probably knows. Samuel
