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Repeated failure of install of Jessie

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Long before I joined this List, I purchased a DVD and a thumb device from
LinuxCollections.  The DVD contained the first Jessie DVD, and, I'm guessing,
the thumb device contained the rest.

I kept the same partitions that I had had on my old squeezy install.
the first was /boot, the fifth was /, the sixth was /usr, the seventh
was /var, the eighth was swap, the ninth was /tmp and the tenth was
/home.  The sizes I kept from  squeezy; all were overly generous(my HD
is one TB.)

I reformatted them all with ext4 at first, then later with
ext3, which what my old system had.  [  Sorry for the vague terminology,
I'm writing this on a loaner Windoze box many yards away from my
own machine and documentation. ]

The _many_ install attempts crashed at random points but after a while
they congregated when I tried to choose a kernel.  After choosing a kernel
one must then choose the associated drivers.  This crashed almost inevitably,
although once I got through to stage where I received a black screen with
the white text prompt 'grub>'.  This was before the kernel was booted, and
I have no clue how to use this, even if I once again get this far.

I have tried choosing 'none' for a kernel.  But then one must choose an
installer.  I've tried choosing grub, even tried using the ancient LILO.
All produce red screens, indicating failures of one kind or other.

I have discovered the informative 'tty4' where the progress of the installation
is more copiously displayed.

And now I'm meandering, for I don't know what further information to give, that
will help the members here to make further suggestions.  But I shall be grateful
for any help I receive.

Ala

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Repeated failure of install of Jessie Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-03-29 22:10 +0200
  Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 00:10 +0200
    Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2016-03-30 01:00 +0200
      Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 12:30 +0200
        Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-03-30 18:50 +0200
          Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 19:20 +0200
            ERRATUM Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 01:10 +0200
        Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2016-03-31 19:30 +0200
          Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 19:00 +0200
            Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 19:10 +0200
              SOLVED - I hope! was: Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 04:20 +0200
                Re: SOLVED - I hope! was: Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2016-04-09 12:30 +0200
        Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 06:20 +0200
          Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 00:10 +0200
            Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 01:00 +0200
  Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 00:20 +0200
    Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-03-30 00:40 +0200
  Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2016-03-30 00:50 +0200
  Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-03-30 01:10 +0200
  Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-30 06:40 +0200
    Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-03-30 17:20 +0200
      Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 18:00 +0200
      Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-03-31 11:20 +0200
      Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-03-31 14:50 +0200
  Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-01 20:30 +0200

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