On Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:04:15 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:46:12 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > 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: > > > I always install my systems in this manner from my normal > > > workstation. > > > > This IS my normal workstation. But I imagine that I could reverse the > > path from one of my Dells dedicated to a task. Only one has a comfy > > chair though, the one normally running my biggest milling machine, > > out in the garage. I'll take my coffee cup out and try this from > > there. > > Unsurprisingly, I use the second most convenient machine to install > onto that one. In addition, I lose the benefit of apt-cacher-ng for > that particular installation process. If I'm installing a new release, > then I save the normal cache's contents, and later import all its .deb > files into apt-cacher-ng on my workstation's new installation. > > One more convenience of installing like this is that you can have the > release notes, your own aide-memoires, and other reference documents, > open on the same machine while you're running the installer. > > Cheers, > David. > > . Here is that partitioner menu snapshot, obtained by a network ssh login, smunched to 81kb base-64'd. Showing that d-i did not even recognize the disk I want to use for this new install.
So how & what do I do to this virgin disk to make the d-i recognize it so I can install to it? 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
