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Bug#236914: Installation report (images from 7 March, i386)



On 12.III.2004 at 22:32 Joey Hess wrote:
> > partman-auto: This machine didn't have free space on the hard disk, so
> > when partman-auto showed its menu during the startup of the
> > partitioner there were only two options: automatically partition the
> > whole drive and custom partitioning.  The problem is that the default
> > option was the automatical partitioning of the whole drive rather then
> > the custom partitioning.
> 
> Hmm, is this a bug? It will lead to the whole drive being autopartitioned
> in noninteractive installs, but that's arguably a good thing.

I find this a dangerous default.  Noninteractive installs will have to
preseed the debconf base at least because of the confirmation question
"Do you want to write the changes of the partitions".  One more
default for cdebconf is not much more work.

Anton Zinoviev



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