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Re: first nearly successful USB media install



On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:56:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> In cfdisk, I told it to change my 128 mb swap partition to ext2, and
> write and quit. For some reason the next screen (picking partitions to
> mount?) still identified it as type swap. I went back and checked, it
> was ext2 according to fdisk. Still swap as far as d-i knew, but I went
> ahead and told it to mount that as the root partition. Lacking any other
> partitions, I continued with the install.

I think it identifies it as swap because it's looking at the filesystem
that's present on the partition, not the partition type.

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