On Tuesday 29 March 2016 21:08:19 Alan McConnell wrote: > Long before I joined this List, I purchased a DVD and a thumb device from > LinuxCollections. The DVD contained the first Jessie DVD, and, I'm > guessing, the thumb device contained the rest. > > I kept the same partitions that I had had on my old squeezy install. > the first was /boot, the fifth was /, the sixth was /usr, the seventh > was /var, the eighth was swap, the ninth was /tmp and the tenth was > /home. The sizes I kept from squeezy; all were overly generous(my HD > is one TB.) > > I reformatted them all with ext4 at first, then later with > ext3, which what my old system had. [ Sorry for the vague terminology, > I'm writing this on a loaner Windoze box many yards away from my > own machine and documentation. ] > > The _many_ install attempts crashed at random points but after a while > they congregated when I tried to choose a kernel. After choosing a kernel > one must then choose the associated drivers. This crashed almost > inevitably, although once I got through to stage where I received a black > screen with the white text prompt 'grub>'. This was before the kernel was > booted, and I have no clue how to use this, even if I once again get this > far. > > I have tried choosing 'none' for a kernel. But then one must choose an > installer. I've tried choosing grub, even tried using the ancient LILO. > All produce red screens, indicating failures of one kind or other. > > I have discovered the informative 'tty4' where the progress of the > installation is more copiously displayed. > > And now I'm meandering, for I don't know what further information to give, > that will help the members here to make further suggestions. But I shall > be grateful for any help I receive.
No help - but "Join the club". Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. Mine was a new computer and, after over a day of tearing my hair out, trying again, trying differently,and re-downloading etc. etc., I installed Ubuntu MATE (how are the mighty fallen!!), just to make sure that something would install. It did. I am about to try a few more methods of getting Jessie on. But I want a night's sleep first! (This is a companion saga to the one I have already reported, not the same one). It is not helped by the fact that check sums are not available for the 8.02 or 8.03 firmware net-install isos. And 8.0.0 (for which I have got the check sums) has not got the necessary drivers. I have been installing Debian for years on a good many different computers of different ages. I have NEVER had problems like this. I expect a basic Debian installation to take half an hour, not days. One of the tech help chaps, at the shop from which I bought the computer, suggested forgetting about gpt and sticking with Legacy, and looking at the Windows settings in the BIOS, which he though might be interfering. As I said, I am going to have a night's sleep first. I didn't get much last night because I was battling with this. FWIW, Ubuntu insisted on installing with Legacy partitions, not gpt. I had not got the motherboard manual and did not know what the motherboard was, so couldn't download the manual. I have now asked the shop what it is, and downloaded the manual. Lisi
