p.H wrote:Maybe the size of these ISO images is smaller than the actual usable capacity of the SD card.
No no. This is the first time I've ever tried to install on an SD card. Head_on_a_Stick, as you know, was trying to suggest my USB was bad because I used Mint USB Image Writer, which I've never had a problem with. I've even used this very same USB with this very same Debian 9 Stretch image to install on the SSD I mentioned before in this thread.
p.H wrote:It's getting confused. IIUC you have two SD cards and two card readers (USB and PCI). What combinations did you use to try to install then run Debian, with what results ?
Note that some (possibly older) USB SD card readers are USB 1.1 only so have a very low throughput (1.5 MB/s at most).
I only have one plugged in at a time. The 32GB one was giving me no end of trouble so I decided to see if the 16GB one would work. I used the same USB adapter, and it's USB 3.0 and plugged into a USB 3.0 port. The SD card is kind of old though, which is probably slowing it down a lot. I installed Debian on the SD card while it was in the USB card reader because the installer won't even acknowledge the SD card exists when I put it in the MiniPCI-E card reader. The plan, as suggested by someone in this thread, was to install it using the USB SD card reader and then edit the fstab so that I could move the SD card into the PCI-E card reader, but it's so slow I don't know if it will let me. I tried just booting it from the SD card in the PCI-E card reader and it said it was a read-only file system. It says
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Read-only file system while trying to open /dev/sda1
Disk write-protected; use the -n option to do a read-only check of the device.
fsck exited with status code 8
Then it says write access is unavailable and it cannot proceed.
I just tried booting it from the USB again and it finally loaded the desktop. I added my user to the sudoers list and rebooted and now it's loaded the icons but not the panels
Here's my fstab. I'm not sure what changes I need to make so it will boot when I put it in the PCI-E card reader:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=3ca05a7a-342b-4a1e-9f29-56331ccbfd41 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
EDIT: Just rebooted again. Still no panels. WTF?
So I figured out how to run the panel manually and it said I couldn't make any changes to it because it was in "kiosk mode". I dug around on the internet for a little bit and found this thread:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8801 (Yeah, I'm using xfce) but I was unable to navigate to the folder mentioned as it doesn't appear to exist. Or I'm doing it wrong.
Man, if it's not one thing it's another.