Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:28, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Notice that hda7 and hda8 start before the end of hda6.  This partition
> table is broken (some partitioning tools are making such partition
> tables) and in order to be safe the partitioning program of the
> installer refuses to work with it.  If you remove hda7 and hda8 the
> problem (I hope) will disappear.

Well....
Actually, partman does just that itself if you for instance delete a large 
partition that's not on the end of the disk and create one or two new 
partitions in it's place.

And to be honest, I've not seen problems in partman using a partition 
table like that.

My laptop is happily running with this table (largely created by d-i) and 
installing is NP:

# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1216     9767488+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1217        3648    19535040   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            4500        7296    22466902+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4            3649        4499     6835657+  83  Linux
/dev/hda5            4500        5715     9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            7235        7296      497983+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7            5716        6474     6096636   83  Linux
/dev/hda8            6475        7234     6104668+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order