[Debian-eeepc-devel] Squeeze Net-Install Fails

Kent Frazier kent at kfrazier.com
Fri Sep 2 16:54:34 UTC 2011


I used Unetbootin for windows to create the bootable USB. It gave the option
do download and install the stable net-install iso which I did. I'm afraid I
don't have the URL to that image.  I'll try downloading the image myself and
see what happens.

Thanks

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Ben Armstrong
<synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>wrote:

> On 09/02/2011 01:26 PM, Kent Frazier wrote:
> > When I tried to install Squeeze from a USB thumb drive the install
> > failed installing GRUB.  The USB drive is seen as sda and my HD is seen
> > as sdb during the install. GRUB tries to instal to sda, without giving
> > me the option to install to sdb, and fails.
> >
> > I've been able to install with a CD-ROM and external Drive, but I was
> > hoping to get the USB issue resolved as I plan on reinstalling with a
> > different partition scheme this weekend.
>
> Please indicate the URL to the image you used for the install.
>
> GRUB ought to ask you which device to install to, so I don't know what's
> going on there. In most cases where GRUB mis-steps, it is possible to
> rescue the system afterwards by booting rescue media and reinstalling
> GRUB on the main drive.
>
> Ben
>
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