Bug#254727: install report

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

reassign 254727 partman
retitle 254727 Some usability comments on auto partitioning (Beta 4)
thanks

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 18:18, Frank Mulder wrote:
> The initial boot didn't work. The installation manual said that I had to
> type this in lilo.conf:
> [...]
> It said that a 'root=' line would be ignored. But when I booted, it said
> that it couldn't open the root file system. I found that I had to append
> 'root=/dev/ram' before booting the image; this worked well.

I'll fix that in the manual.

> I was also not really happy with the automatic partioning. I already had
> some partions, but I wanted to let the installer partition the drive
> automatically, so delete the partitions and let the installer partition the
> free space. However, I couldn't delete the partition with the downloaded
> cd-image (of course). I deleted the other partitions, but the installer
> didn't use the space after the cd-image (where formerly my swap partition
> resided). Instead, it created a swap partition in the free space _before_
> the partition with the cd-image. I still wanted to use the space after it,
> so I created a swap partition in that space and let the installer try it
> again. But it made a second swap partition! That's why I'm not really happy
> with it...

I've noticed the same behavior. Also (as you noticed as well), if there 
already is a swap partition on the drive to begin with, automatic 
partitioning will still create a new swap partition instead of using the 
existing one.
Reassigning this report to partman.

> The bootloader installed well, but it didn't include Windows NT on my first
> disk (not that I use it very often... :) ). I had to do this manually.
> Maybe this is because I had LILO before I started with the installation,
> which resided before the WinNT bootloader, so that the installer couldn't
> recognize it.

This is a known error for Beta4 for NTFS partitions; fixed in more recent 
versions.

Thank you for your report.