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

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: had another crash, reboot usb failed, powerdown reboot usb failed
Date 2022-06-01 07:00 +0200
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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.

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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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