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On 19 April 2016 at 22:04, pcr1 <pcr@pcrt.us> wrote:

> Yes and that works fine.  I've ordered a new drive to see if that helps.
> PCR
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​If your current drive works with Ubuntu, why not try installing ubuntu
first in one partition and then debian in a second one.

This sounds a bit voodoo like but maybe debian will prefer sitting on a
different region of the disk - and then work OK.

Regards

MF​




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> On 04/19/2016 05:53 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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> On 18 April 2016 at 18:12, pcr1 <pcr@pcrt.us> wrote:
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>> I have for some time been, and after many attempts remain, unable to
>> install Debian, which I previously have used for many years.  The failures
>> occur during "select and install", about a third of the way through, but
>> not always at the same place.  My terabyte disk is partitioned with /boot
>> of 1gB, / of 500 gB,  16 gB of swap, and the rest as /home, with about 200M
>> not used.  I have 8 gB of ram. Ubuntu-gnome installs easily and functions
>> correctly.
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>> If you can suggest anything I would appreciate it.  This is just
>> bewildering to me.  Thanks,
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> ​Have you tried a live cd with debian on it?
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> Regards
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> MF​
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Failed installs pcr1 <pcr@pcrt.us> - 2016-04-18 19:20 +0200
  Re: Failed installs arian <debian@semioptimal.net> - 2016-04-18 19:40 +0200
  Re: Failed installs cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2016-04-19 13:30 +0200
  Re: Failed installs Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> - 2016-04-19 14:00 +0200
    Re: Failed installs Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> - 2016-04-25 11:40 +0200
  Re: Failed installs Selim T. Erdoğan <selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> - 2016-04-25 11:40 +0200

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