On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: > My apologies to those who feel that I have wasted their time and > thanks to those who have tried to help. > > I don't know how I managed to start two threads but this whole > business well illustrates the confusion that I originally wrote about. > > The 'technical' question was 'Why does exactly following the process > that has worked perfectly well for other distros, using exactly the > same hardware, fail when I try to install Debian the same way?'
I would argue that that isn't a technical question. Have you read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Have you tried booting from a livecd? e.g. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140513082558.GA22030@tal