On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: > On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the > > /dev/sdc slot. > > > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, > > /, and swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other drive > > currently mounted, and 2; use the partitions I've already setup on > > this new drive without arguing with me. > > > > and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives > > hooked up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data > > from the other drives. > > > > How do I best achieve that? > > On 06/10/18 20:41, Rick Thomas wrote: > > As others have pointed out, 1 and 2 are just a matter of using the > > tools the installer provides. To accomplish 2, you should probably > > choose “manual” partitioning. You may need to choose “expert” mode > > at boot time for the installer. > > > > As for 3, my approach would be to open up the box and temporarily > > disconnect the power from the other two disks while installing to > > the third disk. > > If you want to disconnect a drive: disconnect both the power and the > data cables, so that the data cable cannot back feed the drive > electronics. > > > Disconnect all drives except the new 2 TB drive and your optical > drive, then boot the installer. That should solve all three of your > requirements. Once you've booted into your fresh OS, edit > /etc/crypttab and/or /etc/fstab to use UUID's or /dev/disk/* paths to > uniquely identify the partitions. (I use MBR partitioning for my > system drives, and swap partitions appear to lack a UUID. /dev/disk/* > paths seem to work for swap partitions on recent Debian > distributions.) > > > You will want to choose "manual" partitioning in the installer to > select the partitions/ swap spaces/ file systems you have already > created. > > > I don't think "expert" mode is required -- it just seems to make the > installer steps explicit (?). > > > After the install you can reconnect the power and > > you will wind up with two bootable drives. You will then have to > > choose between them at the BIOS level. > > I put mobile racks in all my desktop and server cases, and use small > (16~80 GB) HDD's/SSD's for boot, swap, and root. When I want a > different OS, I power down, swap system drives, and boot. > > > (I keep the local contents of my home directory minimal, put the > majority of my data into a personal share on my file server, and mount > that into my home directory.) > I can see I need to watch the sales for a good price on 60 to 100 gig SSD's. Is there a longer lasting version coming down the line that I should be aware of? > > David
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