On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi > > system on too. > > > > > > Ideas as to how to proceed? > > Hi Gene, > > First: get yourself an iso with all the firmware on to start with. >
got that. > Second: Disconnect all your FTDI and serial leads. keyboard/mouse, one printer left plugged in. > Third: Use UEFI - it makes sense at this point. Can I still mount and use my /home raid10, and 1 or 2 other drives if I switch it? > > Fourth: Use the text mode expert install. I have so far, but powered off to bail out when I couldn't figure out what to do next. Before it wrote anything. > When it comes to using your > RAID, single step through the partitioning. Use the partitioner's > expert mode to label the partition on your RAID as home and untick the > format - that should work. > > Fifth: Uncheck any desktop environment in tasksel. > > Sixth: After that point, and only at that point, install TDE > > Seventh: Reinstate your serial leads one by one - and at that point, > sort out your issues with nut, printers and so on. And printed this for the checklist. > > Document this step by step: write yourself a tasklist and tick off each > small step as it completes. > > As someone who has done, conservatively, 500 installs - many with the > text mode installer - it is not as hard as you seem to make it every > single time. But, without knowing at what step you fail and precisely > what you see when you do fail - what error messages, what it's telling > you and what steps you are thinking of taking BEFORE you take them, > I'm at a loss to know. The D-I needs to grow the capability to mount an otherwise unused drive, and store as png's, snapshots of the screen. That way no one can accuse me of copy/paste fibbing. I can also take screen shots but the list server, even if I could figure out how to get it out of the camera and submit them, would justifiably balk at the 5+ megs a pix that would be. > All the very best, as ever, > > Andy Cater Back atcha Andy, take care & stay well. 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
