On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 08:29:55 (-0400), Maurice Heskett wrote: > I have a gent on the Sheldon list at groups.io who would like to see > how I solved a broke into pieces compound on my bigger lathe, linuxcnc > can do all that and then some w/o a compound, so mine is now a block > of a cast iron, machined to be the same height as the broken compound > with a quick change tool holder on top of it. Because the > net-installer does not identify the drives its going to format, and > formating the raid cannot be permitted, all that stuff has to be > removed and a reinstall done to only the sata_1 drive, it takes me a > couple hours on my hands and knees to dismantle all that to protect it > from the installs appetite to format everything in sight. Then about > 2 hours to put it all back together when the install has been > finished.
I don't understand why you say that the net-installer can't identify the drives (and partitions) that it's going to format. You seem to have been using GPT disks for at least a year now, and they have partition labels (PARTLABEL) which are listed by the installer, as seen here: │ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA ST3500413AS ▒ │ │ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ▒ │ │ > #1 3.1 MB K biosgrub BIOS boot pa ▒ │ │ > #2 520.1 MB B EFI System ▒ │ │ > #3 524.3 MB ext2 Linux swap ▒ │ │ > #4 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-A ▒ │ │ > #5 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-B ▒ │ │ > #6 436.1 GB Viva-Home ▒ │ │ > 7.7 kB FREE SPACE ▒ │ │ ↓ │ You can set the partition names in fdisk by selecting the expert menu with x and using the n command. > But since I'm stuck in root, and my history with that net-installer is > spotty at best, please give me a link to the bookworm net-install > image, which I'll then dl and put on a fresh dvd, maybe it will work > better than the 11.2 version I've been using. One of the things it > still does is install orca and brltty w/o asking even if that option > is skipped in the menu. That would mean coping with changes and new features in bookworm at the same time as trying to restore your system to something perhaps resembling a normal Debian system. (I have no idea why only you have ever reported undesired installation of the screen reader system.) Cheers, David.
