Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! & Questions?

2015-03-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > On 20150312_2255-0500, David Wright wrote: > > Press Left-Alt and the menu bar will appear. You can also press, say, > > It seems we are using different versions of iceweasel, or different > versions of Jessie. Configuring keys can be quite obs

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! & Questions?

2015-03-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150312_2255-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I realized that I had not tried dd from VC2 just before entering the ... snip ... > > > 2) A problem that I really want to fix: The window in which Iceweasel > >is displayed does not have t

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! & Questions?

2015-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > I realized that I had not tried dd from VC2 just before entering the > partitioner section of weekly build (Jessie) installer. It didn't > allow successful write, so I tried Wheezy 7.7 which had failed before > the dd write. This time for 7.7, t

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! & Questions?

2015-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150311_1304-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150311_0406+, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > > >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > >> > > >> [ ... snip ... ] >

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150311_0406+, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >> [ ... snip ... ] > > suggestion of running CHKDSK wasn't tried in the manner

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150310_1157-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install > > Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. > > I starts nicely like I have seen many

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> [ ... snip ... ] > suggestion of running CHKDSK wasn't tried in the manner that I'm sure > was intended because by the time I got

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Ventura
On 03/10/2015 02:00 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Comments? Suggestions of things to try? Boot the installer up to the point where it reads the disks. Do a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1M' to try to forcibly erase the boot sector and any EFI stuff that might be on the disk. If that fail

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and > > > install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of > > > de

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and > > install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of > > debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. > > I starts nicely like I hav

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install > Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. > I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to > partitoning the H

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and > install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of > debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. > I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to > partiton

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Ventura
On 3/9/2015 9:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to partitoning the HD there is trou

Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to partitoning the HD there is trouble. It won't overwrite the NTFS partitions