On 6/21/23 11:56, David Wright wrote:
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.)
It still installs it, but doesn't activate it. That to me is a bug. I
purposely skipped that step in the installer.
But, so far, and I've been at this since around 06:20 and its 14:42 here
now, so I think an overdue nap is next, bookworm, except for kmail, is
working as expected and looking better eyewise than I last recalled
looking at gnome a decade back up the log when it was being kind to call
it butt ugly. So ATM I'm happy.
Cheers,
David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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- Louis D. Brandeis
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