On Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:02:10 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 19:30:37 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:34:01 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > 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? > > > > yes, it will not proceed w/o it. > > > > > │ Detect disks │ > > > │ Partition disks │ > > > │ Install the base system │ > > ISTR your having problems driving the partitioner back in 2015. > You need that partitioning step at the very least in order to indicate > on which partition to install the base system. But that doesn't mean > you have to format any of the partitions. That's why there's an option: > "Format the partition: no, keep existing data" > > Obviously, it would complicate configuring a system if you actually > went ahead with installing the root filesystem onto a partition that > still contained a load of old files from some previous installation. > > So I'd be interested to see the screen display at the point where you > tell it to "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk". That's > at the bottom of the screen that displays all the partitions, that > looks vaguely like this: > > ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks > ├─────────────────────────┐ │ > │ │ This is an overview of your > currently configured partitions and mount │ │ points. Select a > partition to modify its settings (file system, mount │ │ point, > etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to │ │ > initialize its partition table. > │ │ > │ │ Configure iSCSI volumes > ↑ │ │ > ▒ │ │ Encrypted volume (sda5_crypt) - 31.4 GB Linux > device-mapper (cryp ▒ │ │ > #1 31.4 GB f ext4 > / ▒ │ │ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA > ST3500000AA ▒ │ │ > 1.0 MB > FREE SPACE ▒ │ │ > #1 3.1 MB > K biosgrub BIOS boot pa ▒ │ │ > #2 > 520.1 MB F ext2 BullBoot /boot ▒ │ │ > > #3 524.3 MB ext2 Linux swap ▒ │ │ > > #4 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-A ▒ > │ │ > #5 31.5 GB K crypto Viva-B (sda5_crypt) > ▒ │ │ > #6 436.1 GB Viva-Home > ▒ │ │ > 7.7 kB FREE SPACE > ▒ │ │ SCSI7 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 1.0 GB Multiple Card Reader > ▒ │ │ > ▒ │ │ Undo changes to partitions > ▮ │ │ Finish partitioning and write > changes to disk ↓ │ │ > │ │ <Go Back> > │ │ > │ > └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── > ────┘ > > In this particular instance, my real, encrypted /home on partition #6, > the unencrypted buster on #4, the random-encrypted swap almost filling > #3, and Grub's playground in #1 will all be left undisturbed by the > "write changes to disk" step. Only partition #2 (for unencrypted /boot) > and the encrypted filesystem inside partition #5 (for /) will be > formatted. > > At the end of the d-i, there will be a vestigial /home/me containing > three dotfiles in the root filesystem, and I will login as root to > set up the script that decrypts partition #6 and mounts it on /home, > "concealing" /home/me. Also there will be a swap configuration to add > to /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab. > > The d-i doesn't have to know about any of this. It would be sensible > for you to treat your raid10 /home partition similarly.
I might give this install one more re-install, after I swap a 240G kingston SSD for a 1t samsung and back up my present raid10's contents to it so I've a backup/recovery at least possible. But I have other alligators snapping at me too so it won't be for a couple weeks yet. Thanks David, take care and stay well. > Cheers, > David. > > . 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, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
