On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 02:59:12PM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: > Hi Joel > On 29/11/15 13:16, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After recently installing the i386 flavor of devuan, > > I tried again with the amd64 version. > > > > This time I encountered problems. > > > > First, I managed to clobber the partition table. > > At one point the installer asked me if this was > > a GPT partition table. I wasn't sure and said yes. > > Then at some point the partition table was overwritten. > > > That's interesting. Are you sure that the partition table hasn't ever > been gpt (perhaps a left over from a previous install or a Window 7 pro > installation)?
It was a notebook with Windows 7 installed. I shrunk the partition. Now Windows 7 is gone, leaving more space on my precious SDD :-) > > That may have been a mistake on my part, but I think > > it's worth noting that this is the first time > > in 20 years that the debian installer has led to > > this level of destruction. > > I've done a lot of debian and devuan installs, and the time that > question appears is if you select the disk itself rather then the > partitions, in which case you are then prompted what type of partition > table to use, and it's good that it should default to gpt. So I do > think you may have made a mistake there. There were some diagnostics given: this looks like GPT and that looks like GPT, is this a GPT partition table? > > After I repaired the disk and booted the installer, the > > install aborted with a package dependency problem that I > > recall involved systemd, udev and dbus. Apt was looking for > > a particular package version, and the version number of the > > available package had a -devuan suffix that apt rejected. > > What suite did you select jessie (stable), ascii (testing), or ceres > (unstable)? > There is a currently known issue with ascii and ceres regarding the > version of dbus. I am in the process of resolving that issue at the > moment. Yes, the second time I did the install I went with testing. > You didn't happen to keep the logs? They are contained in > /var/log/installer. That would be extremely helpful. Sorry, no. The installer informed me that some errors appear in /var/log/syslog. Perhaps it should also mention /var/log/installer. > > I ended up installing stock Jessie, which I will later > > convert to devuan. > > That is sad to hear of your experience, I hope we can do better. Thanks. We all know (or should know) that installing operating systems is a perilous process. > > I wonder if others have encountered this issue, and > > whether this is the appropriate forum for reporting it. > > This is one forum to report it. If you could raise an issue here: > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/Installer_Feedback/issues Sounds like you are already onto the problem. I could report, but as you see, have few technical details. > (This is a newly created space for providing feedback where the > installer maintainers will be notified and able to respond. You will be > required to register for git.devuan.org tho)... Thanks for your response, and contributions to Devuan! > Kind regards, > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Reurich > Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. > 021 797 722 > -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
