On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 10:39:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all > > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall > work.
My, my; as an experienced user, you really are having a hard time. > I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by the > time its finslly gets around to installing grub, its too far into the > diksk for the dumb bios on this old Asus mobo to find it, so this time I > am going to add a /boot as first partition. At 2 or 3 hundred megs. "... its too far into the diksk ...". Eh? I think that's known as conjecture. Sounds like nonsense anyway. > And I'd like to do this with gparted in such a way as to skip the > partitioning. I don't care if it formats the partitions I give it. But I > do NOT want them futzt with. I've even had your partitioner rearrange > the partitions/ putting a /boot partition 300G's into a 1T drive, > although that was with a previous version. So I'm hoping it won't do > that ever again. You have convinced youself that the partitioner is at fault. Have you thought of a test install using a single 20 GB partition on your disk? It is not what you want, but it could boost your confidence. > So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format it, > and just get on with it? I cannot be bothered to think about this. 99.9% of Debian users find an expert installation procedure works well. -- Brian.
