18.04.2017 19:19, L A Walsh пишет:
Running openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20170414-Media.iso...
First, I chose to "install", not upgrade. I got to an 'expert' paritioner, but it seems to want to limit partition sizes to 2TB or less and seems to be defaulting to using /dev/sd{a-c}+extended. That doesn't sound like gpt, but a standard
Installer defaults to whatever disk label is in use currently.
PC-compat partition setup. I tried to start the text startup, but still ended up in GUI, which is driving me insane due to the physical mouse cursor not lining up with the virtual one. So... 1) how do I boot in text mode so I won't have to deal w/a broken mouse?
Did you try to press F3?
(if I solve the above, I might be able to run parted from installer CD, but not sure....if not...)
2) how do I setup the partition table to use gpt? or, how do
Select disk in expert partitioner, on the lower right you have some advanced actions drop down list (called Expert). It allows you to rewrite disk label.
I run parted? Maybe I should boot the rescue disk and try initializing the disk w/gpt first?
Yes, you can.
....booting rescue.. why does sysd complain about missing groups: tty, kmem, video, audio, disk, cdrom
then fail to generate issue-generator fail issue-generator network add enp0s17 -- no such file or directory fail issue-generator network dd enp0s8 -- no such file or directory
--- seems sysd doesn't know how to start a rescue system -- though since a rescue system is supposed to start from a shell, how do I boot to a shell?
I have no idea what you are doing or what your are using. When I select rescue system from installation medium it boots into text mode shell.
adding init=/bin/sh (or init=/bin/bash) seems to be ignored.
I doubt installation medum even has /bin/sh until installer is loaded and mounted all necessary parts.
It starts a gui desktop. Why can't I get to a terminal from here? I try pressing ALT-F1 to get to the 1st console, but its ignored, and alt-f2 gets brings up an application finder.
This has been the case in X11 GUI since ever.
Also, no mouse cursor at all in this GUI. How do I run the GUI w/no mouse -- tab does some switching, but nothing to bring up a rescue menu.
What rescue menu?
Why no ability to boot to a shell?
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