On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 01:23:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 00:58:32 EDT David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 00:26:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:25:01 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 03:25:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > I now know where the seriel convertors are so I can unplug them so I > > > could reinstall for about the 25th time if someone could tell me how > > > to skip formatting my raid10 /home partition, othewise I am stuck > > > building a working system to do my daily stuff from nothing. > > > > > > The installer blindly goes ahead and formats it every time, losing 6 > > > months of work in OpenSCAD and thats pure bs IMNSHO. I'm halfway thru > > > building another raid10 I can hide from the installer, needing two > > > more terabyte samsung ssd's and a slot for aother controller which I > > > can free up by temporarily pulling my firewire card that runs my > > > movie camera with kino. > > > > I don't understand. You have /home on a separate partition(s), yes? > > Then why do you tell the installer anything about it/them? > > Just make sure that if you select it/them, they look like this: > > > > [ … ] > > > > > > You don't need a /home *partition* to install Debian. Just let it > > create a /home/gene on the root filesystem, populated with the > > contents of /etc/skel/, as per usual. When it's done, then as root, > > set up your real home directory (or "assemble" it, or whatever you > > do) and use the /home directory that the installer created as mount > > point. > > > I've tried to do that David, several times. But the net installer just > keeps looping back to that until I use it, which formats it.
Because that statement is /so/ vague, I'll have to read /something/ into it. By "until I use it", do you mean that you have to use the Partitioner Disks step, as seen here, before you can Install the Base System? │ Detect disks │ │ Partition disks │ │ Install the base system │ Cheers, David.
