David Ashworth wrote: > Hello, hope I am in the right area to ask this question. If I am > not, please tell me a better place.
This list is about creating CD images. The debian-boot list would be more appropriate. It is about the debian-installer and your question is really more about how to drive the installer. Here are some resources that will be useful to you. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/ But let me give you a few hints here anyway. > I am trying to install debian via the cd. I get to one area and I > am stumped. I get the message" no root file system is defined. > please correct this from the partitioning menu." Now, I go to the > partitioning menu and go around and around in a loop and get the > same no root file system message. I don't know what it wants. Maybe > something simple, but what? I don't remember the exact wording but perhaps I can give enough hints to provide help anyway. The root filesystem is the part where you would have indicated it being "ext3" or one of the others and assigned it the the "/" location. Do you remember doing that? > I am using the second drive in my PC. It is all Linux. Here is what it > looks like: (hdb) 61.5 GB, #1 primary 59.3 GB B K lvm, #5 logical 2.2 GB > F swap swap. It is a little hard to read what you wrote since those lines are smashed together but neither of those are the root partition. The first is a partition that is indicated to be used for LVM. When this is seen by the installer it will add a new option to the top list which is to configure the lvm manager. After assigning a partition for use with LVM then you must then configure lvm to create logical volumes and then use one of those logical volumes for the root partition. But as you show things now you do not yet have a partition assigned to the root filesystem. The second partition that you show is a swap partition. > So, I am in this loop. Where is this root file? Is it on the CD? I am new > to this, so I am a little confused. Everything up to this step has gone OK. > Been reading the help files, but being as I am new to this, more confusion > than help. If you want to continue with lvm then configure the lvm manager and create a volume group and then create a logical volume on that volume group. Then assign it to the root partition. If you have never used lvm before it can be somewhat confusing. I use lvm routinely because it allows me to resize partitions and in general think it is a good thing to use. But if you are not familiar with lvm them it might be better to try the installation without it. That would make things a little bit simpler. In which case you could delete the lvm partition and use that space for a regular ext3 filesystem and then assign that filesystem to "/". This is where the "guided" partitioning is very helpful. You could simply allow the installer to automatically partition the disk for you. Putting everything into one filesystem may be the easiest way to get going. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
