On 12/9/24 06:59, gene heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
If your computer is crashing within a minute, consider printing this e-mail.
I assume the subject "restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze"
refers to your Asus PRIME Z370-A II desktop/ workstation/ storage server
computer (?).
I suggest:
1. Disconnect all internal and external drives.
2. Connect the 1 TB WD Black M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 SSD into motherboard
slot M.2_1.
3. Boot into Setup, reset all settings to factory defaults, save, and exit.
4. Boot the Debian Stable installer into a rescue shell or boot
Clonezilla. Connect a large USB HDD with free space. Back up the M.2
SSD to the USB HDD. Connect another large USB HDD with free space and
backup again. Power down. Disconnect USB HDD's.
5. Boot the Debian Stable installer into a rescue shell. Zero fill or
secure erase the M.2 SSD.
5. Do a fresh install of Debian with a supported graphical desktop
environment (I use Xfce). Keep it simple and small (16 GB). Only
install official Debian packages. Record every question asked by d-i
and your answers -- use pencil and paper if you do not have an available
computer. Power down.
6. Boot the Debian installer into a rescue shell or boot Clonezilla.
Connect a large USB HDD with free space. Use dd(1) to take an image of
the M.2 SSD to the HDD. Repeat with second USB HDD. Power down.
Disconnect USB HDD's.
7. Boot into the new OS. Reconnect/ reconfigure the various data
drives, one data set at a time. Back up each data set as you go.
8. Install a hypervisor. Add a partition to the M.2 SSD for virtual
machines. Create a VM for your daily driver and install whatever OS and
desktop you please. Create VM's for each of your specialty applications
with whatever software each needs. Configure host data set access as
required for each VM. Recover anything needed from the M.2 SSD image
from step #4. Shutdown, snapshot, and export/ backup each VM as you go.
David
