Bug#695008: installation-reports: Acer TM8371 nicely installed, partitioning could be improved, suspend to RAM broken
On Mon 03 Dec 2012 at 11:08:00 +0100, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> As I was not concentrated during the disk partitioning process, the
> partition manager wanted to use my USB flash drive used for booting the
> installer for the system installation, and I only noticed when the
> partitioning table was already written.
>
> Then, I got a warning that the installer could not "inform the kernel"
> of the change in the partitioning table, presumably because the device
> was mounted.
>
> I wonder why this could happen, but I believe it should not be possible
> to select the medium from which the installer was booted as a system
> disk in the partitioning manager.
The user may have good reasons to install Debian in the free space of
the device holding the installer. You actually tried to format the whole
device, part of which was mounted, so, as you observe, this was not
allowed by mkfs.whatever.
The whole device can be used if the netboot mini.iso is written to it.
This is a valid thing to do (Debian on a flash drive). Your suggestion
would prevent it happening.
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> As detailed above, the partition manager at first wanted to use my USB
> flash drive from which the installer was loaded, as a system disk.
This occurred because you instructed it to do that. Losing concentration
at the partitioning stage can be fatal. :)
Apart from this little glitch it would appear the installer has behaved
faultlessly and you successfully booted into the new system. Thank you
for your report.
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