Re: bugs, should I report these?

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:33:57AM -0800, Cardenas wrote:
> when trying to create a filesystem, I get this: "mkfs.ext3: file not
> found while trying to create journal"

Already reported as bug #177454.

> when trying to mount my created filesystem, I get this: "trying to
> configure di-utils-mapdevfs but it is not installed" 

Already reported as bug #180976 and fixed.

> should I report these, or are they already known? Is there a way I can
> get around them from the shell, because I'd like to install debian
> already. :) I'm using the net install floppy image from tfheen's
> repository, but my floppy is a couple weeks old. 

You can work around the first by using ext2, and the second by
starting the shell and executing

 cd /var/lib/dpkg
 sed 's/^ $//' status.udeb >status.new
 cp status.new status.udeb

.  The second is fixed in the latest image.

> and as a usability issue, the default next action should change when
> the user goes out of order. For example, I went from the choose
> language step to the create a filesystem step because I had already
> partitioned, but the default continued to be "Autimatically create
> partitions (unsafe)" so I was forced to enter the number of the next
> step every time. 

Please file a bug against main-menu.

Matt
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