On Thursday 16 April 2015 02:02:44 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/15/2015 08:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I finally found enough of a round tuit to burn the cd and try it. > > Seatools found and tested all 3 drives, no hits no runs no errors. > > ... 1. DON"T leave your cell phone plugged in ... > > 2. that solved & rebooted, with one of the 2T's in the sdb slot, > > gparted said it had NO partition table! ... > > So, progress from the WV version of Lake Woebegone. :) > > It's good to hear that your hardware seems okay and you are making > progress. Please let us know what you find next. > > > David
With my history of mis-behaving install partitioners, you can bet the farm on that! ;-) I think the last things I do before starting the install, is to rsync the currant /home and /opt directories to the new drive I just partitioned and formatted as ext4. Then I'll have a several hour battle trying to expunge network-manager and making my networking Just Work(TM). Then edit fstab to mount the LABEL = /opt drive on top of the /opt directory is easy. But Jessie will have installed some things in /home and I am not convinced we have a mechanism/script I could apply to update the image of wheezy's home on the LABEL=/home partition that will not at that time, be mounted over the /home directory of the Jessie install on the other to be main boot drive. Perhaps that might be another of rsync's talents, only updating whats different? Man page study time I think. And more caffiene, I'm a quart low yet... And one other question: Can the installer deal with a drive that has no partition table on it? I know for a fact that as it stands for wheezy, that it will not accept, even if it can see it, another partitioners partition tables. It absolutely has to write its own table and nothing a human can concoct will ever suit it. Frankly, debian needs to get an alaskan divorce from whatever its called and use gparted and be done with it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- 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/201504161023.56457.ghesk...@wdtv.com
