On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:17:59 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wednesday 21 January 2015 00:02:41 Gene Heskett wrote: > > If there is a way, then maybe I'll try it again, but give me step by > > step I can printout and follow when there is no one in the room, or > > available via the net. > > Since the problem seems to be unique to you, perhaps your installation > media are faulty? I assume you checked? Which CD/DVD did you use? > > I have never had any difficulty using existing partitions and just > assigning them, and formatting or not at my choice, and have installed > wheezy quite often, both using existing partitions and creating new > ones. I don't have a spare computer on which to install Wheezy at the > moment, to give you your step by step directions. I am about to > install Jessie, but that might be different. > > Anyway, if you have it installed, perhaps you could just live with it. > > Lisi
Not installed Lisi, I tried to fix the miss-alignment with gdisk, and it blew the install away. It of course has big red warning signs, so I wasn't surprised. Now I have partitioned and formatted the drive again, making sure that everytime it auto-checks round to cylinders, I turn it off, and gdisk is happy as a clam. I will try another install tomorrow. Then, checking with fdisk, only the first partition was visible, and it was the whole drive. WTH?? e2fsck bombed on any formatted but partition I sicced it after, so gparted is busy reformatting it yet again. 50Gb /boot, 50Gb swap, 50Gb /, and the remainder as /home. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- 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/201501210109.35274.ghesk...@wdtv.com