On Thursday 04 April 2019 11:24:24 bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <201904041039.19463.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > >So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format > > it, and just get on with it? > > You can't. Part of manual partitioning step is selecting the > mountpoints and it has to be done by someone. How would you expect > the installer to know what partition is for / or /home/ or /var or > whatever? > If the disks partitions have been labeled, that removes that excuse, and they were.
But, to get current, adding a 300 meg /boot partition solved that problem. And many of the remaining problems aren't showstoppers except for one. I had mc copying some of my data from the deb7 drive to this one, but I had other things to do and left mc running but sitting idle while I attended to the washing machine and walked to the mailbox to get todays mail. On returning, the screen had been blanked. Nothing on the keyboard or mouse would unblank it, and I had to resort to the reset button. TDE-trinity is now installed and was rebooted to at the time. No screenblanker gfx had yet been assigned, nor had an "xset -q" been run to see what the defaults might have been. So I am rebooted back to wheezy pending advice on what to do about this as I don't expect to have to reset & reboot the machine everytime I walk away for ten minutes. Hopefully someone else has encountered this and knows the fix. Thanks. > I guess you could do some kind of preseed script, but that's beyond > me, and doesn't sound like what you want. > > Try the guide much? > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-partit >ion Didn't know it existed. 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>