On Thu 02 Apr 2015 at 20:37:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken > > > installer will not do it any other way. > > > > I know that it has been said before, but there may be people new to > > the list reading this. I used the same "broken" installer, and my > > /home is separate from /. > > > > Lisi > > I appreciate that you have done that Lisi, but this hybrid.iso from > linuxcnc.org, downloadable from a link right one on the front page, and > using the wheezy repos for updates, simply cannot be beaten into > submission to do that.
It needs to be spoken to softly and caressed into submission. No one doubts your experience but everyone wonders how you have managed to turn a happy and co-operative installer into a martinet. > Regardless of the mechinations I have tried, it plain and simply loops > back to the partition drive screen if you do not just let it do what it > wants to do, which is two real partitions, one for /, and one for swap > at 2x the memory it finds in the machine. ANYTHING else you try to do > and it loops back to restart the drive partitioning again. I even tried > to prepartition the drive with other tools, but none of those settups Been there; done that. A text install with manual partitioning. /home and / on separate partitions were formatted and the install carried on to a successful conclusion. > were recognized by the installers partitioner. This hybrid install iso, > can also function when written to a usb key, but this now elderly Asus > M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo's latest #1701 bios cannot be booted from usb. The installer manual has a paragraph or two on installing from a USB stick in such circumstances. It's not the only way. -- 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/20150403122856.gg22...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
