Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 09:08:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:01:52PM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > kaye n wrote: > > > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > > > 'parted -l'.* > > > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > > > ka

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 12 février 2020 15:10:04 UTC+1, Felix Miata a écrit : [...] > If you present to it what it wants, it makes no partitioning changes. If you > don't, it will divide up what you do give it, as long as what you do give it > can meet its minimum requirement. [...] I am sure now that you are

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:01:52PM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > kaye n wrote: > > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > > 'parted -l'.* > > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > > kaye@laptop:~$ parted -l > > bash: parted: command not found >

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Felix Miata
didier.gau...@gmail.com composed on 2020-02-12 01:57 (UTC-0800): >> Windows will automatically create a partition out of the 50GB partition >> that I made for it? > I may be wrong, but I do not think the Microsoft Windows installer will do > so: it will probably try to create other partitions if

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Klaus Singvogel
kaye n wrote: > *The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB > originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates. > > *Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can > make for UEFI partition? Or is that not a wise thing to do

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Please use a correct quoting method: it is difficult to differenciate your discourse from others when when replying to you :-) Le mercredi 12 février 2020 09:00:05 UTC+1, kaye n a écrit : > Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can make > for UEFI partition? Or is tha

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 15:53:37, kaye n wrote: > > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > 'parted -l'.* > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > kaye@laptop:~$ parted -l > bash: parted: command not found It's in package 'parted' and must be run as roo

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread kaye n
*The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates.*Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can make for UEFI partition? Or is that not a wise thing to do? *PXE Boot is booting

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 feb 20, 21:07:05, kaye n wrote: > Thank you guys for telling me the email got lost. I'll just describe it. > > The partition table is GPT. > > Imagine you're looking at the graphical presentation of my hdd in GParted. > > Starting from the left: For the future, you could paste the (r

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
kaye n composed on 2020-02-11 21:07 (UTC+0800): > The partition table is GPT. Created how? Did you do it yourself prior to beginning installation of Debian? > Imagine you're looking at the graphical presentation of my hdd in GParted. > Starting from the left: > 858GB NTFS partition (intended f

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Thanks. Two thoughts about your failures: The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates. PXE Boot is booting over network (TFTP) and not want you want. You can configure your boot device in the BIO

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread kaye n
Thank you guys for telling me the email got lost. I'll just describe it. The partition table is GPT. Imagine you're looking at the graphical presentation of my hdd in GParted. Starting from the left: 858GB NTFS partition (intended for storing all kinds of data) then 20GB ext4 partition, with

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Felix Miata wrote: > kaye n composed on 2020-02-11 17:23 (UTC+0800): > > > No one? > > Your OP seems to have gotten lost in the ether. I don't see it on > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/02/threads.html and don't remember > seeing it arrive among any other debian-user email. I do see th

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
kaye n composed on 2020-02-11 17:23 (UTC+0800): > No one? Your OP seems to have gotten lost in the ether. I don't see it on https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/02/threads.html and don't remember seeing it arrive among any other debian-user email. I do see there another original post from yo

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread kaye n
No one? On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:35 PM kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > Are my attached files too big? If so, let me know, I'll make them smaller > next time. > > debian_01.jpg shows how I formatted the brand new hard drive. My goal is > to install Debian first, then Windows. I know it's not