[Ubuntu Wiki] Update of "walterorlin/debugging-debian-installer" by walterorlin

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Add how to get ot the save debug logs location. 

  The first few times you have to report a problem with a debian installer image not installing can be frustrating as switching to a tty and using ubuntu-bug is not possible in the limited busybox session but this allow for the alternate install for lubuntu on the oldest machines to work. Getting the debug information when this breaks can be frustrating. However, to triage these bugs without logs is really hard to get the developers the info needed. 
  
  = How to file =
+ IN debian installer pressing  the 
  
- With debian-installer ubuntu-bug from a shell will not work. The debian-installer busy box enviorment is quite limited in what commands you can use. Even commands like less are not available. There are a few options available here that work well. 1. Download the debug logs from another computer on the lan. 2. mount a filesystem and attach them after booting into a wor1. >From another machine on the local network, If debian installer comes up with a red screen saying failed ot install go through and try again and it is still broken at red screen if you use the keyboard to navigate to the go back back button it will bring you to a menu of all of the various steps of the installation. If you go all the way to the bottom of this list there is an option to save debug logs. Press enter with the cursor on this option. Then for a computer on the local network. Press to save debug logs on web. IT will give you an ip address from an embeded webserver. now from another computer on the same network or even the host if it is a virtual machine download all of the debug files. IF it is a linux system and easy way to get all the files and save them to another computer is to run wget -r on the ip address from the machine failing to install. 
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+ With debian-installer ubuntu-bug from a shell will not work. The debian-installer busy box enviorment is quite limited in what commands you can use. Even commands like less are not available. There are a few options available here that work well. 1. Download the debug logs from another computer on the lan.
+  2. mount a filesystem save the debug files onto this filesystem boot a working system with that system and attach the saved logs. 
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+ How to get to the menu to enable saving debug logs. After failing the alternate installer will usually flash a red screen saying it had failed. If you still get that you may need to get back to a main menu by pressing the go back button. 
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+ 1. From another machine on the local network, If debian installer comes up with a red screen saying failed ot install go through and try again and it is still broken at red screen if you use the keyboard to navigate to the go back back button it will bring you to a menu of all of the various steps of the installation. If you go all the way to the bottom of this list there is an option to save debug logs. Press enter with the cursor on this option. Then for a computer on the local network. Press to save debug logs on web. IT will give you an ip address from an embeded webserver. now from another computer on the same network or even the host if it is a virtual machine download all of the debug files. IF it is a linux system and easy way to get all the files and save them to another computer is to run wget -r on the ip address from the machine failing to install. 
  
  
  1. From another machine on the local network, If debian installer comes up with a red screen saying failed ot install go through and try again and it is still broken at red screen if you use the keyboard to navigate to the go back back button it will bring you to a menu of all of the various steps of the installation. If you go all the way to the bottom of this list there is an option to save debug logs. Press enter with the cursor on this option. Then for a computer on the local network. Press to save debug logs on web. IT will give you an ip address from an embeded webserver. now from another computer on the same network or even the host if it is a virtual machine download all of the debug files. IF it is a linux system and easy way to get all the files and save them to another computer is to run `wget -r` on the ip address from the machine failing to install which will save all the debug files.  Otherwise you will need to dowload and save these files manually.