Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

["Eugenia Franzoni" <eugenia@catnic.it>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20040120

I downloaded the Sarge Net installer from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040120/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
The computer I tried it on has 2 disks (hda and hdb). I tried the
installationon hdb. The partitioning went ok, the disk is recognized as
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc (QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A)

- note: it is an old HD on a new controller (VIA
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C)
So "disk partitioning" went ok. The partition table I created is:

part1     Linux Swap
part2     Linux (bootable)

The problem is that these partitions (either of them) are not included in the
list of the partition in the "configure and mount partitions" step, so I
can't use them for the installation.

Accessing them manually (i.e. mkswap on the first partition and mke2fs on
the second, via the console in F2) was successful. Even after creating
the filesystem, the partitions are not listed in "configure and mount
partitions"

Eugenia