On Tuesday 02 April 2019 22:05:41 Felix Miata wrote: > 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 gene@coyote:~/Mail/emc$ parted -l Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 983GB 983GB primary ext4 boot 2 983GB 1000GB 17.2GB extended 5 983GB 1000GB 17.2GB logical linux-swap(v1) Model: ATA ST2000DM006-2DM1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 524GB 524GB primary ext4 2 524GB 545GB 21.0GB primary linux-swap(v1) 3 545GB 2000GB 1455GB primary ext4 Model: ATA ST31000333AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ext4 boot 2 525MB 1000GB 1000GB primary ext3 Model: ATA ST2000DM001-1ER1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 6817MB 6816MB primary ext4 2 6817MB 2000GB 1994GB primary ext4 Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. Model: ATAPI iHAS424 B (scsi) Disk /dev/sr0: 306MB Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/2048B Partition Table: mac Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 8192B 24.6kB 16.4kB Apple 2 7725kB 9429kB 1704kB EFI > and/or > fdisk -l > > to see if that's where your trouble lies. and fdisk -l: gene@coyote:~/Mail/emc$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000657ed Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 1919977471 959987712 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1919979518 1953523711 16772097 5 Extended Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda5 1919979520 1953523711 16772096 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0006aa28 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 1026048 1953523711 976248832 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x8f7940d2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 1023999999 511998976 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 1024000000 1064959999 20480000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 1064960000 3907028991 1421034496 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000ec54 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 2048 13314047 6656000 83 Linux /dev/sdd2 13314048 3907026943 1946856448 83 Linux /dev/sdb is the target disk, /dev/sda is current operating disk /dev/sdc is older, not in use amandatapes-1T disk, and /dev/sdd is currently used amandatapes-2T disk. /dev/sdc has had 25 re-allocated sectors since day one, about 7 years back. Around 80,000 spinning hours on it now. Bad firmware when it came over the counter at staples when a 1T drive was state of the art. New firmware also upped its read and write speeds by about 40 megs/second. Look this over please. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>