Matthew Bennett wrote: > 1. The partitioner did not let me choose a mount point for my existing > /home partition (reiserfs, hda9). I could choose the 'use existing data on > this partition' option, but contrary to the 15th April netinst build, no > mount point option then appeared. That's bug #244424, it's being worked on. > 2. I chose to reformat hda8 as reiserfs and mount it as /. I also chose to > delete hda7, which was a small ext2 partition. The face icons on the main > installer screen showed this correctly. But when I finished the main > partitioner screen and was asked to confirm a summary of the changes, it > claimed I was going to format hda7 with reiserfs. I cancelled the changes, > and then only chose to format hda8, doing nothing to hda7. The summary was > correct that time. Can you reproduce this? Note that you can boot the installer on the same machine and add/delete partitions without blowing away your install, as long as you cancel it all before the confirmation screen. If you can reproduce it, I imagine it would be useful to have a copy of the installer's log file, /var/log/partman, and also a dump of your partition table. > 3. There didn't seem to be any problems with the network during the > initial installation boot, but during the first 'real' bootup, network > configuration failed, saying there was no such device eth0. However, eth0 > works fine under Knoppix, and ethernet also works under XP. My card is a > Realtek 8139too. What does this command say on the installed system? discover --enable-all ethernet --module What happens if you modprobe 8139too and ifup eth0? -- see shy jo
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