Re: Message with no Package: tag cannot be processed!(bugreport installing from cdrom)
Package: Installer (??? did not find it)
Version: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 "Potato"
(ooo Netscape :-)
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> Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the
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> Your message was dated Sat, 30 Dec 2000 05:15:36 +0100 and had
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> and subject bugreport installing from cdrom.
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> Darren Benham
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> Package:
> boot-from-cdrom-install-and-fdisk-partitionion-inconsistancy(dont-know-exactly-what-module-this-is)
> Package: Installer (??? did not find it)
> Version: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 "Potato"
>
> Official CDs from LinuxLand, Germany
>
> Hi, do you know this?
>
> - When I try to install (from cd), the installer uses another
> partitioning scheme than e.g. fdisk.
> It offers to
> - use /dev/hda15 as swap and fails to do so. (because it is hda11)
> - offers to format my /dev/hda9, (from 1..15) but mounts my "real" hda9
> (from 1..11) on target.
> Because I have a BSD/386 partition with slices (???)
> This is what fdisk sees:
> ...
> /dev/hda2 * 259 775 3908520 a5 BSD/386
> /dev/hda3 776 820 340200 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 821 3970 23814000 5 Erweiterte
> /dev/hda5 821 1078 1950448+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 * 1079 1336 1950448+ eb BeOS-Dateisystem
> /dev/hda7 1337 1594 1950448+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 1595 2111 3908488+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 2112 3117 7605328+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda10 3118 3892 5858968+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda11 3893 3970 589648+ 82 Linux (Auslagerung)
> ...
> The Installer recognizes 4 BSD slices. So swap part. a11 is a15 to it.
> But the system fails to mount /dev/hda15...
> And mounts the same hda9 on "/target" as you see above and not a5, as it
> should, when calculating the offset. Sorry for no screen shots...
>
> Hint: to create BSD-slices with FreeBSD, you just need the 2 floppies
> and a supported network-card and an internet-connection....
>
> I now change my a2 to something completly unknown to linux.
> IMHO this shows that it is dangerous to use different strategies for
> display and execution... (sorry, but...)
> IMHO this bug isnt that critical because most people that have BSD
> slices on their system know whats wrong...
>
> I enyou debian with gnome and enlightment very much, as I enyou my SuSE
> with the new kde2 and my FreeBSD to read the code and the newsgroups...
>
> Happy new year and thanks for a great software!
>
> --
> Chris PAUL
> http://www.augsburg.netsurf.de/cpaul
> Please: do not publish my email-/web-address.
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