On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > :-? alt+F2, F3... can always work, it's useful to change to other tty console, so I can input these commands..
> >>> 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...)? Okay, I will read the docs later. Is there anything wrong to create a bootable usb by dd? I don't know clearly about that.. > >> 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've used such way to install the system for my collegures several times. If there were no usb or any bootable media at hand. I would take apart their hard disk, and install them to my machine as a slave disk. Then I can easily install system on their disk either by debootstrap or copy my system to their disk.. This method always works fine for me before :p > >>> 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. Thank you! I will check it! :D > > 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 > -- 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/cahamyh25nbkyka_gacbztwokneqoyaif-uc1aszojgnu8zn...@mail.gmail.com
