On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that. > > It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem. > > 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. Check > 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key. Check, unless the disk is used, then you need to "use whole disk" > 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose > 'Logical'. ENTER. 'Beginning' ENTER. Check,,,, > 4. Highlight 'Mount point:'. ENTER. Highlight '/home'. ENTER. Choose > 'Done setting up the partition'. ENTER. Check,,, > 5 We are now back at the page in 2. Repeat 2, 3 and 4 but choose / as > the mount point. Check, for /opt > 6. Repeat 2 and 3. At 4 highlight 'Use as:' and choose 'swap area'. > Then 'Done setting up the partition'. Check, 17 gigabytes worth. > 7. 'Finish partitioning and write changes to disk' is the final step > in partitioning on this page. But before doing it carry out step 8.
I wasn't doing that step 8. > Then ENTER and agree to write the changes to disk on the next page. And this is where it looped back. 100% of the time, and apparently not writing to the disk the partition table so composed. So you highlight the disk by its sda designation and restart, never getting a successfuil step 7. > > 8. Switch to tty2 with ALT-F2 and do > cp /var/log/syslog /var/log/syslog-part1 > > >/var/log/syslog > > If there is any failure at step 7 (or before) you should have a record > in syslog which can be viewed with 'more /var/log/syslog'. > syslog-part1 will contain information on disk detection. Thank you Brian. This log I assume is readable from tty2? I don't recall it was available that early in the install previously, so I hadn't even tried. Printed FFR. 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> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
