I already told you in post #42

if you know which ones are your swap partitions then just delete one. then add your same UUID for the swap partition to both fstabs the same rule applies for every install after this. When it asks you during install where to put your swap or if it creates another swap automatically .. when you should be in "expert mode" or advanced mode during install to manually take over the partitioning and selecting of partitions to tell it the mount points.

this is getting ahead a little but when that install process shows you that is has created a swap . see if you can change it. so you can just set it to the one you already have established. I am sure that this is how you ended up with two swaps.

being in expert or advanced mode you should be able to change that, it shows you every partition and empty space and every medium that can be counted as a hard drive connected to your system. Some like Ubuntutututu and such that use a similar install GUI window that has them little check boxes and such to make changes. they're a little bit of a bother (for me anyways) but you just need to slow down and read and look over everything in that window to see what it is doing. then see if you can change it if needed. nothing is going to get screwed up if now commit has been had. (nothing has been written to the hdd in the form of partition changes)


So if you want to use sdb5 as your swap then just make it so that not only both of these fstabs have that UUID for swap in it but every sequential install afterwards.

Mystified,

I think that your blkid and /etc/fstab files should read like this:

You have just one swap partition, /dev/sda6. On /dev/sda5 you have an ext4 partition that has for some reason been given the label "swap". It's confusing to you, but harmless. If /etc/fstab mounts that partition by its UUID rather than by label, you can safely use tune2fs to change or delete that label. (None of your other filesystem partitions have labels.)

Good catch I wasn't looking that far over. Just matching numbers.

I've tried everything suggested. the uuid numbers match there is only one swap. I dont know what else to do.

ok repeat what is it NOT doing and whatever and all errors / and warnings being sent out to the term.

so everyone can review it and rethink it and take it one step at at time until we get that bugger Debian doing that it is suppose to be doing. Unless you want to practice installing a system again. (parish the thought?)

OK, one last thing and then a re-install. I think swap is working now but I still can't get in because of the following:

I think that's correct. I honestly have a hard time reading my own handwriting. I checked in the log directory but I'm not sure which one to check. thanks for all the help and patience,

ok I'm just going to reinstall wish me luck

well ok then I personally have no idea of what that is "systemcyl status systemh10gid.service"
I was hoping someone else would chime in on it to help you out.

it may or may not fix your problem by reinstalling it.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed since I've never had that problem before.

Why not just use Virtual Machines, and be done?

However: in the standard partition-table there are only four slots. So, it is customary that the fourth slot be used to define (one ...) extended-partition in which all other partitions live. Don't expect an operating system to be prepared for there to somehow be "more than one" extended partition.

And I repeat – if you just want to play with Linuxes, grab VirtualBox ... it's free, and supported by none other than Oracle Corporation, and it works on any host.

I can do that but i want to install gentoo for sure since I was a long time user.

Good news and bad news. I can boot into debian but no wifi. I downloaded the firmware first and installed it through the debian realtek package. That didn't work so I added non free to sources list and did firmare-realtek and I got lastest package installed. I've tried every command I can think of.

when I boot it says no firmware found! screams loudly

Mystified,

Try using the Debian Unofficial non-free images including firmware packages:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/un...ding-firmware/

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...er-4175542680/


You could always create an extra partition (as sda1) for Debian Jessie-based antiX-16.1 and having Debian on sda? but antiX may have the same problem:

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

antiX-16.1 FAQs:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/...FAQ/index.html

To enable wifi after installation on antiX-16.1:

Menu > Control Centre > Network > Network Interfaces (ceni) > wlan0 > follow wizard and give SSID/network name and wifi password.

Sorry but most of your links don[t work. It's a moot point now because my cursor is jumping all over the screen. I can;t do anything and I am NOT re-installing. I.m typing this from my trusty chromebook

Well I unlugged and my mouse is working,