Bug#224620: dhcp & lvm problems, partconf & GRUB wishlist
* tbm <tbm@cyrius.com> [2003-12-20 18:33]:
> At some point I went into the partition a hard drive menu. It showed me:
> <info on my hard drive>
> Finish
> I chose my hard drive, got into cfdisk, did my stuff and quit. After that,
> the menu was on the hard drive again. I think it should be one menu item
> further down (on "Finish" in my case, or on the 2nd hard drive if I had one).
218610: Skipping to the next partition in the list would be better
> /etc/mailname was "(none)" even though /etc/hosts contained the name of my
> machine. Also, /etc/hostname contained "localhost" instead of the correct
> name.
182446: does not create /etc/hostname
212143: selected hostname is not retained after reboot
> I chose GRUB this time; it asked me on which device I want to install it.
> It gave me (hd0) as default and had some info about GRUB having a different
> device schema as Linux. Who cares? It would be much nicer if it would
> display a list of hard drives (a la partconf) and then translated it to
> GRUB's name itself.
220120: grub should use "select" question
> I chose reiserfs for the root partition this time. After reboot, I saw:
> fsck.reiserfs: not found
> I guess reiserfsprogs should be installed if any reiserfs partition is
> used.
220282: should apt-install userspace tools for created filesystems
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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