On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:37:02 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Cannot use" means that you already installed a full system on your >> machine? > > No... sorry for my crappy English, I mean I can't use it to install > system. Okay, then how do you expect to run "any" command from the installer itself? :-? >> The information you give is a bit chaotic. Can you please explain what >> packages are installed in your system (full desktop environment, text >> based install...), run any of the mentioned commands and put here the >> output? > > OK. > 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it. There's a documented method for doing that: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid Did you run the above commands? (note that "dd" is not needed anymore) Also, what version are you installing (stable, testing...)? > 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine by "rsync -av /* > --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*} > > then the system got crash... What? Without installing first? I'm not sure what are you trying to do nor if it can be done from the installer :-? > //if this succeed, then I can chroot into the new 'system', install the > kernel and grub, etc. > I always use this way to install OS... First time I read something like that, sorry :-). I always install as usual, by following the on-screen instructions. >> I'm afraid more precission and detailed information is required to >> discover what can be happing here because amd64 images are as good as >> i386 so the problem has to be elsewhere :-? > > there are too much dump info... I hope i can upload a picture captured > by my phone as an alternative... > errr.. do I create the bootable usb in a wrong way?? what's proper > method to do that?? > unetbootin is required?? I already sent you a link with instructions. See above. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtupob$83b$1...@dough.gmane.org
