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Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system

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On 06/01/2017 07:55 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 12:32:01 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 12:23:56PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>>> On 06/01/2017 10:24 AM, David Wright wrote:
>>
>>>>   ? [!!] Partition disks ?
>>
>>>>    ???              SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 60.0 GB ATA IC25N060ATMR04-0
>>
>>>>    ???              SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 1.0 GB Generic Flash Disk
>>
>>> The above ...[!!] Partition disks... is exactly what I'm seeing.  The
>>> question comes down to which option do I take?  I only want to partition
>>> sda, so that I don't wipe the other drives in the system.
>>
>> The important part is that "sda" and "sdb" are not meaningful labels in
>> the general case.  You need to look at the rest of the information --
>> the size, the description, the model number, the existing partitions.
>> Use those to decide which disk to write to.
>
> That's right. The strings you see above in the example are the
> /dev/disk/by-id files (or part thereof) and those filenames
> (or parts thereof) can frequently be found written on the outside
> of the disk's casing (and sometimes on the box) as Model/Serial/Part
> Number or whatever.
>
> When I managed to persuade the Computing Service to issue me with
> several disks at the same time (very infrequently), I would make
> sure I created partitions with slightly different (usually by one
> cylinder, a historical concept!) absolute and relative sizes so that
> I could distinguish them in circumstances where size was the only
> parameter visible.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

My thanks to all who responded to my plea for help.  The problem has 
been solved.  As it turned out the command line installer had the option 
for partitioning the hda and I managed to install Debian Stretch rc4.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.		Life is a fuzzy set
www.molecular-modeling.net		Stochastic and multivariate
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Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-01 14:40 +0200
  Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-01 16:30 +0200
    Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-01 18:30 +0200
      Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-01 18:40 +0200
        Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-02 02:00 +0200
          Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-04 00:20 +0200
            Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-04 18:30 +0200
              Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-04 19:20 +0200
                Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-08 04:30 +0200
          Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-04 13:00 +0200
  Re: Install Debian 8.8.0/XFCE on32 bit system Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-02 01:40 +0200

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