Lisi Reisz wrote: > >No help - but "Join the club". Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. >Mine was a new computer and, after over a day of tearing my hair out, trying >again, trying differently,and re-downloading etc. etc., I installed Ubuntu >MATE (how are the mighty fallen!!), just to make sure that something would >install. It did. I am about to try a few more methods of getting Jessie on. >But I want a night's sleep first! (This is a companion saga to the one I >have already reported, not the same one). It is not helped by the fact that >check sums are not available for the 8.02 or 8.03 firmware net-install isos. >And 8.0.0 (for which I have got the check sums) has not got the necessary >drivers.
We've never made 8.02 or 8.03 firmware netinstall images. If you mean 8.2.0 or 8.3.0, look in the directories on cdimage.debian.org for the signed checksums alongside the images: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/ (8.2.0 in the archive) http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/ (8.3.0, the current stable release) and there are signed checksum files for *all* the images we publish. >I have been installing Debian for years on a good many different computers of >different ages. I have NEVER had problems like this. I expect a basic >Debian installation to take half an hour, not days. Ouch. :-( >One of the tech help chaps, at the shop from which I bought the computer, >suggested forgetting about gpt and sticking with Legacy, and looking at the >Windows settings in the BIOS, which he though might be interfering. As I >said, I am going to have a night's sleep first. I didn't get much last night >because I was battling with this. FWIW, Ubuntu insisted on installing with >Legacy partitions, not gpt. > >I had not got the motherboard manual and did not know what the motherboard >was, so couldn't download the manual. I have now asked the shop what it is, >and downloaded the manual. Are you trying to dual-boot with Windows, or replace the Windows setup? If you're talking about GPT, you're looking at a UEFI/legacy BIOS choice. There *are* machines/motherboards which come stupidly configured out of the box to boot removable media in one mode (e.g. UEFI) but to use the *other* mode (e.g. BIOS) for booting off hard disk. You then can end up with a system where the installer will appear to work flawlessly, but the newly-installed system will fail to boot. If you've found out the manufacturer/model for your motherboard, telling us what you have could be helpful here. I'm surprised to hear that Ubuntu worked but not Debian at this point - under the covers, the installers for both are remarkably similar... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html