On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:31:55 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:07:13 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:03:41 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:35:50 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 14:17:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > > But I've put another drive in, that I want to install a non efi > > > > > system on too. > > > > > > > > > > The installer does not identify it by the same names, so how do > > > > > I > > > > > install to this drive w/o touching any of the other 6 samsung > > > > > EVO > > > > > series drives. > > > > > > > > > > I've never learn to love gnome, and the kde5 you offer is > > > > > buggier > > > > > than a 10 day old road kill in August, so this time is a text > > > > > install to see if I can put TDE in for a desktop. > > > > > > > > > > How do I proceed? The partitioner does not identify the drives > > > > > found > > > > > adequatly. The drive is plugged into the mainboard controller, > > > > > I > > > > > think to port 5 of 6. > > > > > > > > Well, you post what it /does/ display. Then the experts here can > > > > make > > > > educated guesses, rather than just guessing. > > > > The only way I know how to do that is take a screen shot with my > > camera. But thats not possible when running the D-I cuz w/o gimp, > > its at least 5 megs bigger than the server will accept. BTDT. > > I don't see why you need a screenshot to post the name(s) of the > disk(s) in the partitioner menu. It's just one line per disk, like: > > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA ST3500000AA > > taken from the listing posted in: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/06/msg00055.html > > > > > > I could label it, but the partitioner doesn't do labels. > > > > > This drive is new, and has not anything written to it. > > > > > > > > Really? Which partitioner is that? > > > > The one in the D-I. > > The d-i partitioner lists PARTLABELs, as the cited listing showed: > > BIOS boot pa/BullBoot/Linux swap/Viva-A/Viva-B/Viva-Home > > But as your disk is new, I don't know what those PARTLABELs would be > set to. If you booted a bullseye installation to capture the dmesg > you quoted, then it might be simplest to partition the new disk at > that time. You get the most flexibility that way. (I always prefer > to partition my disks before I let the d-i loose on them.) > > > > > I was rereading Andrew's reply in the other thread, and his > > > > appeal > > > > "The more you can tell us what _EXACTLY_ you are doing, what you > > > > see, > > > > what errors come up and what you have done to try and fix them, > > > > the > > > > easier we'll all find it to come up with suggestions or actual > > > > answers > > > > for you." > > > > > > > > And I was thinking, that's not enough. We only hear a summary of > > > > what > > > > you think you're doing. I had a hypothesis for why you couldn't > > > > avoid > > > > the speech synthesiser, but it would require knowing every > > > > keystroke > > > > you use from powering on the machine. No chance of that. > > > > Not to mention it would be TL,DR to most. > > It can hardly be /too/ long, as you claim that the speech synthesiser > starts yakking almost straightaway.
That, with only the keyboard and mouse plus a small b/w laser printer plugged in, did not occur this time giving me hope it won't install that crap. There is now, perhaps driven by my troubles, a manu selection for that I purposely have not gone near. Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and make the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. Question then: Since /home would be just a mount point for the raid10, how big does that partition actually have to be? Is a single 4096k inode big enough? I assume it will have to be big enough for it to contain /etc/skel. > Cheers, > David. Thanks 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
