Bug#286142: installation-reports: bad interface name "IDE1 (hda)" in manual partitioning
Subject: installation-reports: bad interface name "IDE1 (hda)" in manual partitioning
Package: installation-reports
Version: sarge_d-i/i386/rc2
Severity: normal
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In the summary dialog for manual partitioning of the harddrive
during install ["this is what will be done; last chance to avoid
destructive change to the disk"], the lower left corner identifies
the disk as "IDE1 (hda)". This is incorrect and makes the user
wonder whether the installer will modify the correct disk!
The name of the first IDE interface (the one for hda and hdb)
is "ide0". I'm willing to overlook capitalization, but the
digit '0' is important. "ide1" is for hdc and hdd.
If I had a harddrive on hdc or hdd, then I would have abandoned
installation for fear of scribbling on the wrong disk.
But I have only one harddrive, hda. So I continued, and
the correct actions were performed. But I was worried.
The installer was downloaded on 2004-12-16 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com
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