On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >> mode. > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. >
In trying to use a standard Debian installer iso, and booting into rescue mode, I got toa screen "select partition into which to install the root system", or words to that effect. I have 13 partitions, and that screen does not provide any information, such as labels or filesystem types, for the partitions, so I have to figure out which is the appropriate partition to use as the root system. It does not indicate anything like "A previous Debian installation was found in partition <x>, so you might want to use this partition." So, I have to remove the disk with that iso image, boot with a LiveCD disk, and, examine the partitions. The laptop computer, to which all of this appiles, whilst being (to me) a fairly powerful computer, has an inferior optical disk drive, that appears to be designed to be as diffiocult as possible, to manually open, often taking uip to 20-30 minutes, to get it to open manually, to remove or replace the removable optical disk. Often, software, including operating system installation iso images, include a software utility, that ejects the optical disk. The Debian 7.8 installation iso image that I downloaded, both in the rescue mode, and, in the main menu, does not include an option "Abort installation", at any step that I encountered, wherein, an "Abort installation" option, involves ejecting the removable media, and a message "Remove the <removable media and press <ENTER> to reboot." On this laptop PC, that appears designed to obstruct manual ejection of removable media, software induced ejection of the optical removable media, constistently works without any problem. Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single instantiation, on the primary menu, would help, by rebooting the system into that menu, to do it, if that is the only way to access that option), that would enable ejection of the removable media with the iso image, instead of making this so difficult, to extract the removable media with the iso image? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8MTtWC4edW-ff3AuKqtASd310-=3qjsgrovkgzr+_c...@mail.gmail.com
