Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-01, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote: > >>> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ >>> ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. >> >> Why not? > > Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time > The OP informed u

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2024-04-01 Thread DdB
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again. A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot image. This is already the third

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread David Christensen
On 4/1/24 03:10, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 07:44 schrieb David Christensen: Please post a console session that identifies the ISO you are using, verifies the checksum, burns the ISO to a USB flash drive, and compares the ISO against the flash drive. Ok, in the meantime, i came to similar con

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote: >> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ >> ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. > > Why not? Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time > *should* is the correct word. The board being over 10 years old,

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread DdB
Am 01.04.2024 um 07:44 schrieb David Christensen: > > > A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ > ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. Why not? > > > Please post a console session that identifies the ISO you are using, > verifies the checksum, bur

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/24 02:18, DdB wrote: Hello list, i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core Intel with 64 GB RAM. Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, which got lvm partitio

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 11:18:30 (+0200), DdB wrote: > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, > which got lvm partitioning and is basically empty. As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 31 Mar 2024 11:18 +0200, from debianl...@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de (DdB): > As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using grub, i can manually boot from that ISO > and see the first installer screens. But after asking

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
DdB composed on 2024-03-31 11:18 (UTC+0200): > Suggestions are welcome :-) https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ All my installations use this NET method. What I usually do though is extract linux and initrd.gz from it or directly from the mirrors and load them with Grub rather than booting the NET

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 11:18:30AM +0200, DdB wrote: > Hello list, > > i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. > Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core > Intel with 64 GB RAM. > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working fr