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Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed

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On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 00:58:32 EDT David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 00:26:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:25:01 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 03:25:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > I now know where the seriel convertors are so I can unplug them so I
> > could reinstall for about the 25th time if someone could tell me how
> > to skip formatting my raid10 /home partition, othewise I am stuck
> > building a working system to do my daily stuff from nothing.
> > 
> > The installer blindly goes ahead and formats it every time, losing 6
> > months of work in OpenSCAD and thats pure bs IMNSHO. I'm halfway thru
> > building another raid10 I can hide from the installer, needing two
> > more terabyte samsung ssd's and a slot for aother controller which I
> > can free up by temporarily pulling my firewire card that runs my
> > movie camera with kino.
> 
> I don't understand. You have /home on a separate partition(s), yes?
> Then why do you tell the installer anything about it/them?
> Just make sure that if you select it/them, they look like this:
> 
> 
> 
>   ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks
> ├─────────────────────────┐ │                                         
>                                │ │ You are editing partition #1 of
> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda). This partition     │ │ is formatted with the Ext4
> journaling file system.                      │ │                      
>                                                   │ │ Partition
> settings:                                                     │ │     
>                                                                    │ │
>               Use as:         do not use   ←←←←←←←←←←←←←←← LEAVE THIS 
>  │ │                                                                  
>       │ │               Bootable flag:  off                           
>            │ │                                                        
>                 │ │               Resize the partition (currently
> 200.0 GB)                 │ │               Erase data on this
> partition                              │ │               Delete the
> partition                                      │ │               Done
> setting up the partition   ←←←←←←←←←←←← PRESS THIS   │ │              
>                                                           │ │     <Go
> Back>                                                           │ │   
>                                                                      │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> ────┘
> 
> 
> You don't need a /home *partition* to install Debian. Just let it
> create a /home/gene on the root filesystem, populated with the
> contents of /etc/skel/, as per usual. When it's done, then as root,
> set up your real home directory (or "assemble" it, or whatever you
> do) and use the /home directory that the installer created as mount
> point.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
> .
I've tried to do that David, several times. But the net installer just 
keeps looping back to that until I use it, which formats it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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 - Louis D. Brandeis

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had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-05-31 09:30 +0200
  Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-05-31 22:30 +0200
    Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-01 06:30 +0200
      Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-06-01 07:00 +0200
        Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-01 07:30 +0200
          Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-06-01 22:40 +0200
            Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-02 01:40 +0200
              Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-06-02 17:10 +0200
                Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-02 18:00 +0200
            Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-02 04:50 +0200
              Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2022-06-02 10:10 +0200
                Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-02 16:40 +0200
                Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-02 17:50 +0200
                Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-06-02 17:50 +0200

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