Bug#249650: installation report (beta4, success)
* Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de> [2004-05-18 19:08]:
> The situation is: My Mainboard only supports either PIO, or harddisks
> larger than 128 GB. d-i enabled dma. In windows, I had pio disabled and
> created an extended partition, and I wanted to install debian into a
> logical partition inside that one. Now, that extended partition crossed
> that 128 GB boundary.
> /sbin/fdisk didn't seem to mind much; cfdisk did (complained that
> partition table was larger than disk), and I assume that is the reason
> why d-i didn't show any partitions on this harddisk, even though a NTFS
> partition did exist. imho it should have shown it.
How do you think should d-i cope with this? I think the best option
for you would be to turn pio off in Linux if that's possible - I
imagine there's a command line option for that.
> That was the first problem.
> The next problem was: At the end of the installation, d-i tried to
> upgrade the system. Unfortunately console-common seems to have a problem
> in testing, which caused an "error 9" when installing. I fixed this by
> changing "testing" to "unstable" in /etc/apt/sources.list which I wanted
This is a known problem which will hopefully get fixed soon.
> Oh, and finally: The installer didn't seem to recognize my win2k
> installation on the NTFS partition. but I see that you listed this on
> the errata page, and have fixed it already.
Yes.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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