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Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

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On 4/4/19 7:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all
> 
> I am  today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch netinstall
> work.
> 
> I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by the
> time its finslly gets around to installing grub, its too far into the
> diksk for the dumb bios on this old Asus mobo to find it, so this time I
> am going to add a /boot as first partition. At 2 or 3 hundred megs.
> 
> And I'd like to do this with gparted in such a way as to skip the
> partitioning. I don't care if it formats the partitions I give it. But I
> do NOT want them futzt with. I've even had your partitioner rearrange
> the partitions/ putting a /boot partition 300G's into a 1T drive,
> although that was with a previous version.  So I'm hoping it won't do
> that ever again.
> 
> So how _exactly_ do I make the installer take what it finds, format it,
> and just get on with it?
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Answer:  You must tell the installer _exactly_ what to do.


I always use the d-i in text mode, not GUI mode, to avoid potential 
problems with X windows.  I recommend you do the same.


The d-i defaults to the MBR partitioning scheme.  This is what I want, 
because my older computers do not know how to boot from GPT and my newer 
Wintel computers boot from both MBR and GPT (MacBook Pro only boots from 
GPT?).  Furthermore, I use small system discs (16+ GB), which do not 
require GPT.  I recommend you do the same on both accounts -- use small 
system discs and use the MBR partitioning scheme.


While I have tried d-i automatic partitioning occasionally over the 
years to see what it does, I always manually partition system discs I 
plan to keep.  I recommend you do the same.


Begin by choosing a computer, disconnecting all HDD's, SSD's, USB 
drives, SD drives, etc., and connecting the drive you want to contain 
Debian to the motherboard's first SATA port or first USB port.  Boot the 
d-i media.  At the main menu, choose "Install".  Work your way through 
the d-i pages.  When you get to the "Partitioning method" page, choose 
"manual".  The manual partitioning sub-application has many available 
choices.  Actions are in the upper area, discs and partitions are in the 
lower area.  Depending upon what you select, the sub-app will present 
you with more choices.  I learned to use this sub-app the old-fashioned 
way -- by fumbling my way through, exploring, making mistakes, fixing 
them, etc..  Understand that some actions (such as encrypting a 
partition) make one-way changes to how the sub-app operates.  If and 
when I get stuck with the sub-app, I can always push the reset or power 
buttons and start over with  fresh run of d-i.  The partitioning sub-app 
starts to make sense fairly quickly, and is faster/ easier/ less 
error-prone than using the recovery shell.  With your knowledge and 
experience, I am sure you can figure out the manual partitioning sub-app 
too.  You will then have a system disc partitioned exactly how you want it.


When you're done setting up you system disc, take an image of it.


Then connect the 2 TB disc and set it up for your bulk data and large apps.


(When you are confident with the d-i manual partitioning sub-app, you 
can do both the system disk and your data disk(s) at install time.)


David

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Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 16:40 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-04 17:00 +0200
    Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 17:10 +0200
      Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-04-04 19:00 +0200
        Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 21:40 +0200
          Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-05 09:20 +0200
            Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-05 11:50 +0200
              Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-04-05 13:00 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-04 19:20 +0200
    Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-04 21:00 +0200
      Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 22:00 +0200
        Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-05 20:10 +0200
          Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-06-09 17:10 +0200
    Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 21:50 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-04-04 20:50 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-04-04 21:10 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-04-04 21:10 +0200

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