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Re: first nearly successful USB media install



ons 2003-10-22 klockan 05.42 skrev Chris Tillman:
> 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.

Exactly. Are the "partition types" really useful anyway?


/Martin
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