Package: installation-reports The following installation report was posted to debian-boot, and, according to my records, never followed up on. I am putting it in the BTS so it will not be lost. ----- Forwarded message from Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> ----- From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:25:45 +0000 To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Slight funny with debian installer Hi all, I am not subscribed to the list so please copy on any replies (or wait until I read the archive:-( ) used sarge-i386-netinst-20040122 written to CD and booted from CD. Not sure if what I describe below is a bug, or intentional (to prevent overwriting of existing installations). I was re-installing debian from scratch after trying gentoo. As a result, my hard drives were already fully partitioned and with valid filesystems on them. They were hda1 32MB ext2 - (planning to overwrite for new /boot) hda2 6.7GB fat32 (win xp partition) hda3 4.3GB reiserfs (was going to overwrite this as new root) hda4 30GB LVM partition hdb1 2GB swap hdb2 14GB reiserfs (used for backup). I reached the stage were it asks me partition the drive, and I declined - so it moved on to initialising and defining the filesystems and mount points. HOWEVER, the list I was presented with only included the hdb drive - none of the partitions on hda showed up at all. (There were of course presented in the installer style rather than as /dev/hdb1 etc) The way I found to get the full list, was to manually enter a shell and use cfdisk to remove and recreate the hda1 and hda3 partitions Whilst I am pointing out issues during install, I would just like to raise one other slight problem I had. This is after being used to the previous installers (from woody) I have an LVM partion in which there are logical volumes containing my home directory and then related subdirectories. During installation I was asked to create a non root user, so obviously created me. I had been expecting a point before where I was asked to load any modules I wanted (as previous installs) so I could have loaded lvm and then perhaps have mounted my home directory in preparation for that point. (Of course it was trivial to delete the two .bash files that it had created and tidy up afterwards ) -- Alan Chandler alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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