Using lmde for several years. It was installed in a multi-boot desktop with other linux distos and Win_7. Machine getting old, so I built a new one but have some concerns. On the previous machine, I believe (it's been a while) I installed lmde using the /target mode. On the new machine, I partitioned the drive first and planned to use the /target thing again, but when I got to the partition screen in the installer, it showed my partitions correctly and after formatting to ext4, it gave me the choice to choose my / partition, so I just went ahead and installed that way. Well the install seemed to work OK, and after adjusting fstab, I could boot OK, but something seems not quite right. If I launch gparted, it does not show the M.2-SSD where the linux distro's live? I have a second SSD for win_10 (don't know why I bothered), and separate hdd for win and linux data. Gparted shows those drives OK, but not the SSD with linuxes.
I'm wondering if I did the install incorrectly? I don't really understand what the debian "/target" part of the install. Do I need to use that method or can I just install to my chosen partition on an already partitioned drive?
Install lmde using /target?
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Install lmde using /target?
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Re: Install lmde using /target?
Sorry, for the long delay, but here's an update.Also fdisk sees the M.2 SSD /dev/nvme0n1 partitions, but gparted does not. So the lmde2 install may be OK and the problem might be with gparted. So I ran it from the terminal: then checked for libparted with Also tried purging gparted and re-installing. Same result, no /dev/nvme0n1 partitions show up. This machine multi-boots with ubuntu and regular mint and gparted works normally on them. Will check the man pages on gparted next.
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lmde ~ # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 450M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 99M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 16M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 222.2G 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 848M 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 128M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 931.4G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 58.6G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sdc2 8:34 0 1.8T 0 part /home/ron/data
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
nvme0n1 259:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 19.6G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 20.5G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 20.5G 0 part /
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1K 0 part
└─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 17.6G 0 part
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lmde ~ # gparted
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1
Too few arguments.
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libparted : 3.2
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lmde ~ # dpkg -l libparted*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================-===============-===============-================================================
un libparted <none> <none> (no description available)
un libparted-dev <none> <none> (no description available)
ii libparted-fs-resize0: 3.2-7 amd64 disk partition manipulator - shared FS resizing
un libparted-i18n <none> <none> (no description available)
un libparted0 <none> <none> (no description available)
un libparted1 <none> <none> (no description available)
un libparted1.4 <none> <none> (no description available)
ii libparted2:amd64 3.2-7 amd64 disk partition manipulator - shared library
lmde ~ #
Re: Install lmde using /target?
OK, the man page is pretty sparse, but I got this hint to run from CL and specify the disks: Still getting the "Unknown error -1" but now gparted opens and sees all the disks. Maybe just a "Debian" thing?
Bottom line is that I don't think I need to bother with a re-install.
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lmde ~ # gparted /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1
Too few arguments.
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libparted : 3.2
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Bottom line is that I don't think I need to bother with a re-install.