Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-02 21:50 (UTC-0400): > I have never had ant great success at pre-partitioning a drive, the > installer never accepts what you so carefully lay out This should not be. I *always* partition in advance, never have a problem with any Debian installer using partitions as I specify. Maybe you should try again, but before trying installation, after partitioning, show us output from: parted -l and/or fdisk -l to see if that's where your trouble lies. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/