On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > This machine used to have Lenny but an important component was > > destroyed so I decided to proceed to Wheezy skipping squeeze (which > > I do not have as netinst disk!!!) > > That's a bad idea. You should get a squeeze disk and use it in > rescue mode.
Why? I'm not sure I follow. If the machine had lenny, and the OP wants a fresh install of wheezy, what would a squeeze rescue disk accomplish here. If something happened with the original lenny install, then a lenny netinst disk in rescue mode would be more appropriate. Whether the original lenny install could be rescued is another question. To answer it, we would need more details. > > > When I tried to install wheezy via netinst from CD I could not get > > out of the partition menue for installation of basic components ... > > Why not? Was there an error message? If so, what did it say, at least approximately? > > The parted-menue shows: > > 1. Raid (the whole disk - no partitions so far) > > 2. the 1st scsi-device with all partition on that device (contains > > important data which must not be destroyed) > > 3. the 2nd scsi-device with all partition on that device (contains > > important data which must not be destroyed) > > > > 1st and 2nd scsci devices are partitioned the same way from the > > previous Lenny installation. > > > > My question: How can I proceed with the LSI raid 1 to get a > > functioning system again? > It sounds like you want to install to 1, which is a hardware raid, but leave 2 and 3 alone. If that's the case, the partitioner has an option to leave those devices alone. If I remember right, you want to select devices 2 and 3, in the partitioner, and select the mount point as none, or something of that sort. I have installed debian before in text mode where I wanted a drive to be untouched, and it wasn't. So I know this is doable. If you need more specifics, and someone else can't provide those, I can get to that stage of the install in a virtual machine, and be more specific. I would be doing the install in text mode, so if you're doing it in graphical mode you would have to be able to translate whatever specifics I provide into however the graphical version of the partitioner does things. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
