Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-06-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Jun 2019 at 18:07:11 (+0300), andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Vi, 05 apr 19, 13:05:56, David Wright wrote: > > > > A solution might be to install over a serial link, but I don't > > think you can do that with the d-i itself, only with 3rd-party > > mangled versions. > > Sure it can

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-06-09 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 05 apr 19, 13:05:56, David Wright wrote: > > A solution might be to install over a serial link, but I don't > think you can do that with the d-i itself, only with 3rd-party > mangled versions. Sure it can, it's how most ARM boards are installed. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 15:50:59 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 April 2019 14:56:09 David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 13:12:58 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 10:39 (UTC-0400): > > > > So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Felix Miata wrote: > > Never have I seen any other PC reliably take *so* long. Its > > master /boot partition begins @282.4MB, ends @682.5. Gene Heskett wrote: > 600 something is beyond the reach of some bios, I seen the figure 504megs > bandied about from several sources. That would be 20 b

Re: "fatal" screen blanking (was: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work)

2019-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 April 2019 04:09:55 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 15:09 (UTC-0400): > > ...I had other things to do and left mc running but sitting idle > > while I attended to the washing machine and walked to the mailbox to > > get todays mail. On returning, the screen

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 April 2019 03:15:25 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 15:38 (UTC-0400): > ... > > > Not with this math crippled bios bearing a 2006 copyright. It MUST > > be wholly within the first couple hundred megabytes of the beginning > > of the disk or it can't find it, a

Re: "fatal" screen blanking (was: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work)

2019-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 15:09 (UTC-0400): > ...I had other things to do and left mc running but sitting idle > while I attended to the washing machine and walked to the mailbox to get > todays mail. On returning, the screen had been blanked. Nothing on the > keyboard or mouse woul

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 15:38 (UTC-0400): ... > Not with this math crippled bios bearing a 2006 copyright. It MUST be > wholly within the first couple hundred megabytes of the beginning of the > disk or it can't find it, and it is the most recent bios available for > an Asus M2N-SLI

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 April 2019 14:56:09 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 13:12:58 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 10:39 (UTC-0400): > > > So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, > > > format it, and just get on with it? > > > > First s

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 April 2019 13:12:58 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 10:39 (UTC-0400): > > So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format > > it, and just get on with it? > > First select manual partitioning (all these are the same screen): > https://www

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 April 2019 12:29:33 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:09:13 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Thursday 04 April 2019 10:55:23 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to m

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 April 2019 11:24:24 bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <201904041039.19463.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > >So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format > > it, and just get on with it? > > You can't. Part of manual partitioning step is selecting the > mountpoints and it has

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 10:39:19 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all > > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall > work. I netinstalled Stretch some months ago on this 12 year old Asrock 770DE+ system with absolutely no problems. My guess is you're doing somet

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread David Christensen
On 4/4/19 7:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall work. I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by the time its finslly gets around to installing grub, its too far into the diksk for the dumb bios

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 13:12:58 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 10:39 (UTC-0400): > > > So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format it, > > and just get on with it? > > First select manual partitioning (all these are the same screen): > ht

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 10:39:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all > > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall > work. My, my; as an experienced user, you really are having a hard time. > I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
bw composed on 2019-04-04 11:24 (UTC-0400): > Try the guide much? > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition It lacks the screenshots that are key to understanding existing partition utilization. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 10:39 (UTC-0400): > So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format it, > and just get on with it? First select manual partitioning (all these are the same screen): https://www.howtoforge.com/images/debian_stretch_minimal_server/debian-9-se

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:09:13 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: >On Thursday 04 April 2019 10:55:23 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch >> > netinstall work. >> > >> > I think I have sus

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 April 2019 10:55:23 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch > > netinstall work. > > > > I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by > > the time its

Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall > work. > > I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by the > time its finslly gets around to installing grub, its too far into the > di

Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

2019-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all I am today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall work. I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by the time its finslly gets around to installing grub, its too far into the diksk for the dumb bios on this old Asus mobo to find it, so