Re: debian-installer test

[Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuigoccas@libero.it>]

Il dom, 2003-08-31 alle 18:27, Thorsten Sauter ha scritto:
> | 7. selecting 'partitioner' we get the message 'Failed to partition the
> | disc /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc.' just after the selection of
> | the disc . At this point there is noway to go on since the user
> | interface is blocked. We may only switch to differentent console, but we
> | cannot select neighter 'continue' nor 'go back';
> [...]
> | 10. the partitioner module complains about a missing libslang.so.1
> | library while in the /lib there is only libslang.so.1-UTF8.
> 
> hmm. looks like the partitioner module can't execute cfdisk. Which
> frontend you are using? newt, text, ...?

the default frontend. We did not have the time/ability to check
different frontends. I suppose that we might change frontend adding a
paramter to the kernel argument line while booting, isn't it?

> Please try to partition the disk by hand on the second console (to make
> sure fdisk can use the disk). If this works, you can try to modify the
> partition script: usr/share/partitioner/{$arch,common} to use only the
> fdisk program. This will help you to continuing testing the installer.

When tring on intel machines, the disk were already partitioned, while
when we had a try at vmware we got a crash at this very point. The
vmware crashed and the host computer did the same -- even if the vwmare
wasn't run by root :-(

Thanks for your reply,
Giuseppe