[PLUG] How/where to ask questions that will receive responses

Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timlick at ieee.org
Sat Dec 5 15:20:14 UTC 2015


I think you should add more detail.  Show your partition tables, show the
commands you used to install, show the messages that indicate the wrong
thing happened.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> I posted the following question Dec 2 to the debian-user list. My
> observation has of that list has been initial replies will be
> within 24 hours.
>
> My inference is question was poorly framed or not posted to
> suitable forum.
> { I've made minor edits indicated by [[new text]] .}
> Comments please. Thank you.
>
> On 12/2/2015 12:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I have successfully installed Squeeze {6.0.10} to a flash drive.
> > I can't seem to do the same with Jessie {8.0}.
> >
> > All my installs are from purchased copies of DVD 1.
> > Both Squeeze and Jessie install to the hard drive without problems.
> >
> > My first attempt [[installing to flash]]  with Jessie was using Expert
> mode but accepting
> > all defaults except configuring network [none present] and
> > setting clock to UTC. On reboot all I got was a blank screen and
> > a flashing cursor.
> >
> > On my second attempt I first installed Squeeze to the flash drive
> > to verify that all hardware [and the operator ;] was functional.
> > It/I was.
> >
> > I then installed Squeeze to entire [[flash]] drive. It booted normally.
> > I shrank the Squeeze partition with Gparted and then attempted to
> > install Jessie to the freed space. All appeared to go as expected.
> >
> > HOWEVER, on reboot I saw the Grub screen created by the install
> > of Squeeze.
> > I booted to Squeeze and ran update-grub.
> > On reboot there were now entries for both Squeeze and Jessie.
> > BOTH could be started and appeared normal.
> >
> > 1. Is this a known problem? How would I search BTS for it?
> > 2. How would I have the installer send all relevant log files to
> > my hard drive?
> >
> > TIA
> >
>
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