Debian-Live-10.5.0 'Buster'-GNOME-nonfree.iso Installation failed.

2020-08-04 Thread Tzion cole
Respected sir/madam, I downloaded Debian-Live-10.5.0-Gnome-nonfree.iso From official website. And Made a live usb stick using RUFUS 3.11. When I boot from stick to live session from the boot menu. It gave me `/vmimage error. So I directly went with the graphical Installation. All things went well

Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation)

2017-04-09 Thread GiaThnYgeia
I thought that I had never seen an attachment on the list before but I was not sure. So here is the lazy output. (Power Management bus mastering PCI capabilities listing VGA compatible controller VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] [5333:8D04] S3 Graphics Ltd. [5333] 0 pci@:01:00.0 00 32 6600

Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation)

2017-04-09 Thread GiaThnYgeia
hardware. >> That installation failed to install >>net-tools > > This is to be expected, net-tools is no longer installed by default, > the alleged successor is iproute2. > >> The whole installation "seemed" to go well, >> and on reboot the desktop interfa

Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation)

2017-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-04-06 11:09 -0400, Jameson Burt wrote: > On Sunday, April 2, I installed from scatch on all new hardware. > That installation failed to install >net-tools This is to be expected, net-tools is no longer installed by default, the alleged successor is iproute2. &g

[Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation)

2017-04-06 Thread Jameson Burt
On Sunday, April 2, I installed from scatch on all new hardware. That installation failed to install net-tools The whole installation "seemed" to go well, and on reboot the desktop interface worked well. While the installation properly used some networking during installation, af

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark Filipak > wrote: > >> I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop that has WinXP >> preinstalled without a maintenance partition and I don't have a backup CD. >> If the current WinXP gets

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop that has WinXP > preinstalled without a maintenance partition and I don't have a backup CD. > If the current WinXP gets trashed, I'm hosed. If this is the case, I wouldn't go forward.

Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 09:48, albcares escreveu: that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass. (sorry

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 08:32, Brian escreveu: On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 23:34:23 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Brian wrote: fdisk leaves space at the beginning of the drive because GRUB requires it to embed part of itself there. But GRUB will not go there because it thinks it is overwriting data

Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread albcares
that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass. (sorry for my basic language) 2013/3/4, Darac M

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 23:34:23 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > fdisk leaves space at the beginning of the drive because GRUB requires > > it to embed part of itself there. But GRUB will not go there because it > > thinks it is overwriting data on the disk when it dete

OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:47:55PM -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > > There is a tale in my country about an arrogant man that considered absurd > that a pumpkin, being a large fruit, comes from a short plant, and the > blackberry [1] comes from a tall tree although it is a tiny fruit. He

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 18:07:26 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > >> > Write a netinst image to two USB devices. Boot from one device and >> > install to the second one. Try text and GUI modes. It's about an >> hour's >> > work at most. >> >> But will this happen even if one f

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 18:07:26 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > Had the USB hard drive been used instead of the 8-GB USB and *exactly* > > the same install attempted it too would have failed. The nature or size > > of the device being installed to is immaterial, as is

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 3:33 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 12:29:44 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: Ok. You are using USB flash/USB flash drive/USB hard disc/USB drive interchangeably to refer to the same device? Its good to have that clarified. [Snip] Prior to a

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
Brian wrote: > Had the USB hard drive been used instead of the 8-GB USB and *exactly* > the same install attempted it too would have failed. The nature or size > of the device being installed to is immaterial, as is whether it is a > text mode or GUI install. The only thing that matters is that th

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 12:29:44 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >Ok. You are using USB flash/USB flash drive/USB hard disc/USB drive > >interchangeably to refer to the same device? Its good to have that > >clarified. [Snip] > Prior to attempting to install to

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 2:28 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 19:56:43 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: The reason I switched the target from an 8-GB USB flash drive to a USB hard drive is that someone said I couldn't install to

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak wrote: > From: Mark Filipak > Subject: Re: Installation failed - and failed again... > To: "Brian" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 11:29 AM > On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 0

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 2:07 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: I've thrown the thread away, Oh no... -big snip- Ohmygod! João Luis, of course I'll reproduce it. That should be easy. After all, I've put 2 overtime days into it at this point. Kindly stand by. Right now I'm composi

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> Mark Filipak wrote: > > I've thrown the thread away, Oh no, please Mark! We are wayting a step by step detailed description of the procedure that makes GUI installer fail and text installer succeed. Please, this is vital so we can reproduce, diagnose and fix the bug. If you do not provide such s

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
d Debian Live on a USB flash drive. 2 - I booted to the USB flash drive. This is the 1GB drive. Correct? You got it! Yes. 3 - I invoked the GUI version of the Debian Installer and attempted to install Debian to a USB hard disk. - Both GRUB and LILO installation failed (GRUB is auto

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Brian
3 - I invoked the GUI version of the Debian Installer and attempted to > install Debian to a USB hard disk. - Both GRUB and LILO installation > failed (GRUB is automatically tried, and fails, LILO is tried > manually). The install medium was the 8GB drive. Correct? > 4 -

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
tution. 1 - I installed Debian Live on a USB flash drive. 2 - I booted to the USB flash drive. 3 - I invoked the GUI version of the Debian Installer and attempted to install Debian to a USB hard disk. - Both GRUB and LILO installation failed (GRUB is automatically tried, and fails, LILO is tried man

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
on... I did not make a substitution. 1 - I installed Debian Live on a USB flash drive. 2 - I booted to the USB flash drive. 3 - I invoked the GUI version of the Debian Installer and attempted to install Debian to a USB hard disk. - Both GRUB and LILO installation failed (GRUB is automatically tried, a

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 3:03 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:09:51PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: Miles, I'm running the Debian installer from a Debian Live USB. I don't try to install GRUB. The Debian installer does it. I don't provide command-line switches. The Debian installer provides w

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Antti Talsta
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 03:03:25PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'd like to point out, for the benefit of those on this list and those > who might read this thread in the future, that Mark is attempting to > install Debian from a Debian Live USB. That is a detail that escaped me > until now. Boot

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 13:24:06 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/2 12:37 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > > > >Exactly. Either it was a pertitioning problem, as pointed first by Lisi, > >and he does not want to admit; or some other random problem, and in this > >case no one will never k

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:56:55 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/2 11:26 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:03:14 -0500 > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> First off, I'm going to repeat: STOP SENDING TWO COPIES OF YOUR > >> EMAILS. It's simply rude. Reply to the list or not

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:09:51PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > > Miles, I'm running the Debian installer from a Debian Live USB. I don't try > to install GRUB. The Debian installer does it. I don't provide command-line > switches. The Debian installer provides whatever command-line switches it

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 1:58 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: It was not a partitioning problem or some other random problem. There's a bug in the GUI Debian Installer packaged with LXDE desktop, ver 6.0.6. I succeeded simply by running the text-based Debian Installer. No one suggested that. If this is

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Mark Filipak > To: Shane Johnson > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 12:12 PM > Subject: Re: Installation failed > > [snip] > > I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop t

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> It was not a partitioning problem or some other random problem. There's a > bug in the GUI Debian Installer packaged with LXDE desktop, ver 6.0.6. I > succeeded simply by running the text-based Debian Installer. No one > suggested that. If this is the case, please accept my deepest apologies. P

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 11:26 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:03:14 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: First off, I'm going to repeat: STOP SENDING TWO COPIES OF YOUR EMAILS. It's simply rude. Reply to the list or not at all. +1 I've not been a thread participant and yet am still getting Cc:s

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 12:37 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +, Brian wrote: > The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation > successfully, use the text-based installer. I'd not see this as being the problem, Both a text and a GUI install shou

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +, Brian wrote: > >> The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation >> successfully, use the text-based installer. > > I'd not see this as being the problem, Both a text and a GUI install > should succeed (or fail) under the *same* condition

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:03:14 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: > First off, I'm going to repeat: STOP SENDING TWO COPIES OF YOUR > EMAILS. It's simply rude. Reply to the list or not at all. +1 I've not been a thread participant and yet am still getting Cc:s in my inbox from Mark Filipak while the leg

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +, Brian wrote: > From another mail in this thread: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00073.html > >Some work for you. This iGRUB failure should be repeatable. When it >happens switch to console 4 with ALT-F4 and let us know what the

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hi Miles, >> He has managed to hog the whole list, and get a lot of technical >> expertise for free, for days now - by displaying the attitude of a >> particularly badly-behaved child. >> What a d!ck. > but it has been fascinating, in a train-wreck, troll-baiting kind of way :-) Oh absolutely! I'

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Harvey Kelly wrote: On 2 March 2013 10:58, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists? Watching this from afar,

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Harvey Kelly
On 2 March 2013 10:58, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: >> >> João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. > > Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists? Watching this from afar, what I find

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > > João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being o

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 22:08, Joe wrote: > Actually, the most Windows help you can get is from former newsgroups, > now web forums, which are rather like this, though sponsored by > Microsoft. Occasionally MS people look in and often give technically > correct answers, but also often betray limited real-worl

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 20:13:40 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >The kernel has no knowledge about a non-existent hard disk so how can > >GRUB possibly attempt to install itself there? > > good point, but then again, what does grub-install (try to) use as a > default if a specifi

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Joe
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:28:12 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > We have a _community_, each member of which knows some stuff. People > can help by mentioning the bits that they know, and putting it > together with the bits that other people know. When you read the > comments, you can also pick and ch

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 20:10:34 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 6:58 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >Any chance of a sight of what syslog reports when GRUB fails to install? > > How do I get to the syslog? >From another mail in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg0007

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/13 14:11, Mark Filipak wrote: > Miles. will you kindly stop responding to me. Pretty much nobody knows everything. We have a _community_, each member of which knows some stuff. People can help by mentioning the bits that they know, and putting it together with the bits that other people

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 8:47 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is either: a) try

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is either: a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's discon

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Shane Johnson
Miles, you are not helping. Kindly stop contributing to this thread. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.orgwith > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**5131534f.8090...@gmail.com

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 7:47 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject. What I did: [...] What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It is

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is either: a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconnected (fail), or, T

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is either: a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconnected (fail), or, The kernel has no knowledge about a non-exist

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 7:03 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (probably)

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Joe
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:42:56 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: > > > Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard drive? > > That would be nice, but that would be on USB also... > And if the computer's hardware can deal with USB hard drives, and anything r

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 6:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 18:44:55 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: Regarding installing onto the USB hard drive... I booted from USB thumb drive, then tried to install from that (using its built-in Debian Installer) onto a USB hard drive. That also failed, same problem

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> Do you want to help? > If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject. > What I did: [...] What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It is beyond your possibilities to even understand help on

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to > install GRUB - the installer is either: > a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconnected (fail), or, The kernel has no knowledge about a non-existent hard d

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:25:20PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 3:55 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > >>13 - Removed hard disk. > >>14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. > >>14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:14:59PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>Mark Filipak wrote: > >GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. > >>Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders des

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:14:59PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>Mark Filipak wrote: > >GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. > >>Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders des

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different bo

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different bo

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak wrote: From: Mark Filipak Subject: Re: Installation failed To: "Shane Johnson" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:12 PM I'm afraid it's install Linux

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different boot loader on

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 18:44:55 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > Regarding installing onto the USB hard drive... > > I booted from USB thumb drive, then tried to install from that (using > its built-in Debian Installer) onto a USB hard drive. That also > failed, same problem as when I attempted to ins

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
Hello All, By mistake this thread has been going only to Steven Grunza. I'm reposting to the whole list for help. Regarding installing onto the USB hard drive... I booted from USB thumb drive, then tried to install from that (using its built-in Debian Installer) onto a USB hard drive. That al

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 March 2013 22:25:20 Mark Filipak wrote: > > You want to install it to the 8 GB usb stick, which may be > > /dev/sdb -- but you should make sure. > > Really? Are you saying that at that point the USB thumb drive has a mount > point? I don't think so, but what the hell do I know. Even if

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 3:55 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: 13 - Removed hard disk. 14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. 14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32). 14.2 - Attempted install to the 8-GB USB (newly partitioned). 14.3

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 4:41 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak wrote: --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak wrote: I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb drive or nothing. Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard drive? That would be nice, but that would be on USB also...

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Go Linux
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak wrote: > From: Mark Filipak > Subject: Re: Installation failed > To: "Go Linux" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:42 PM > On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: > > --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Fil

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Mark Filipak wrote: > > > >>>GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. > > Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed > to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a > different boot

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:42:56PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: > > >>The Debian Live USB is acting like a CD. That's fine, I can > >>boot from it. But I can't configure it (different wallpaper, > >>for example) and I can't install anything (Icedove, for > >>ex

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > 13 - Removed hard disk. > 14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. > 14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32). > 14.2 - Attempted install to the 8-GB USB (newly partitioned). > 14.3 - Install succeeded! > 14.4 - A

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak wrote: From: Mark Filipak Subject: Re: Installation failed To: "Shane Johnson" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:12 PM I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb dri

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different boot loader on a USB stick - and whi

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Go Linux
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak wrote: > From: Mark Filipak > Subject: Re: Installation failed > To: "Shane Johnson" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:12 PM > > > I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Shane Johnson
Mark, The easiest way I am aware of (not used) for that is Knoppix to USB. If I remember right it comes as a utility on the CDrom. Also see Miles comments. Shane On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 2:25 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> ...I had to get a Utility from

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different boot loader on a USB stick - and which one is dependent on what your BIOS suppo

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 13:39:19 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > What I did: > 1 - Booted Windows. > 1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB. > 1.2 - Shut down Windows. > 2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success! > 2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome. > 3 - Booted Windows. > 3.1 - Copied

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 2:25 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: ...I had to get a Utility from HP to convert the thumbdrive. Not needed in this case. The target USB drive did not come with U3. (The 1-GB USB drive did come with U3, but I removed that years ago.) I would recommend if you want to truly try Debian an

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Filipak wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). What I did: 1 - Booted Windows. 1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB. 1.2 - Shut down Windows. 2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success! 2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome. 3 - Booted

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Shane Johnson
Thank you, Shane. I did use 'dd' to write the Debian Live ISOs to USBs and > that did work (though the documentation for 'dd' was wrong). A gentleman on > the debian-live list helped me. > > What didn't work was this: When I attempted to install from one (booted) > USB (running Debian-LXDE) to anot

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 1:54 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: Mark, There is a specific method to install to USB. Please see : http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb Thank you, Shane. I did use 'dd' to write the Debian Live ISOs to USBs and that did work (though the documentation for 'dd' was wrong). A gentleman on the

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Shane Johnson
Mark, There is a specific method to install to USB. Please see : http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb Otherwise, you can use the instructions included here : http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual To install to a HD. (There are many different options.) Please be aware that (to my know

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > Do you want to help? > If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Between this comment... > Any/all help appreciated except from Lisi Reisz. ...and this one, who would want to help?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). What I did: 1 - Booted Windows. 1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB. 1.2 - Shut down Windows. 2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success! 2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome. 3 - Booted Windows. 3.1 - Copie

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks everyone for the kind support after long R&D and your tips help me to went through the situation. Thanks every one. :) just FYI : i am using 320 GB HD for booting the system and 2TBx2 drives are just for RAID and backup the stuff things are started well. Thanks God :) Thank you all,

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 08 May 2012 16:02:10 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for making it a >>> centralized archiving server. moving forward e

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:08:10 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message >> : >>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan >>> wrote: i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:20 PM,   wrote: >> De: "Muhammad Yousuf Khan" >> Envoyé: Mardi 8 Mai 2012 14:08:10 >>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan >>> wrote: >>> > i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for m

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > yes i got that , but first i thought. it is related to something LVM > over RAID. which means more complexity thats why i didn't read > thoroughly , There isn't really much complexity to LVM over RAID. The RAID device looks like any o

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 15:20 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > yes i got that , but first i thought. it is related to something LVM > over RAID. which means more complexity thats why i didn't read > thoroughly , > > thanks for the hit. > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Darac Marjal wr

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
yes i got that , but first i thought. it is related to something LVM over RAID. which means more complexity thats why i didn't read thoroughly , thanks for the hit. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:15:43AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> ok

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:15:43AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > ok i used the parted command by "mklabel gpt" i created the partition > but i want it to be linux raid. please help me to convert it to raid > since i can not find option in parted to make it a "fd" linux raid > type nor i can

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
ok i used the parted command by "mklabel gpt" i created the partition but i want it to be linux raid. please help me to convert it to raid since i can not find option in parted to make it a "fd" linux raid type nor i can find anything related to this topic on google. and fdisk is not supporting the

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 May 2012 16:02:10 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for making it a > centralized archiving server. moving forward everything went well but > during the installation in RAID creating i noticed that i could not > change the "boot flag " to

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-08 Thread dagecko
> when i fdisk -l /dev/sda. like "Partition does not start on physical > sector boundary" it happens when i create partition via installation > CD. however when i create via fdisk via clonezilla CD and try to Yes, had exactly the same error when I tried to make changes on my partitions with gpar

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