Sorry to not having replied earlier.
As a result of much tearing of hair and many instances of unmitigated
terror that I had just destroyed my Windows partition, I have
successfully installed Debian on a 2tB SSD.
Windows 11is still there and doing what it does so poorly.
On 3/11/2025 11:11 AM, Eben King wrote:
On 3/11/25 10:19, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro
3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD
for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive.
The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got to
formatting the drive. I was presented with a long list of type of
partition. I tried gpt and started going around in circles. When asked
if that was my choice i selected 'Yes' and was presented with the list
of possible partitions again. At this point I aborted the installation.
I had a bunch of problems getting the installer to make or keep a GPT
partition table for my last install (12 / Bookworm) too. I think I
solved it by making the GPT partition table with fdisk, then doing
manual partitioning. Still got it subtly wrong because the computer
doesn't boot using UEFI, but at least I'm not subject to MBR's
limitations.
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Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
https://insilisochemistry.net
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