Bug#248800: installer beta 4 installation report (mbr damaged, grub misdetection, cannot boot from rescue disk)

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

clone 248800 -1
reassign -1 partman
retitle -1 Have a "swap" option in the list of to be formated filesystems
severity -1 wishlist
thanks

* Adam Lydick <lydickaw@ruffledpenguin.org> [2004-05-12 21:32]:
> Partitioning -- Not really an error, but I found it difficult to
> "discover" how to create a swap partition. It would be easier to
> find if the actions available were all shown in a list.

Yes, someone else mentioned this recently.  There is a menu which
says:
  - format this partition
  - use it as swap
  - use it as LVM
  ....

I think most people have the assmumption that "swap" is in the "format
this partition" item and don't read the rest.  I think in addition to
showing "use it as swap", I would put "swap" in the "format this
partition" list along with other filesystems.

> I have never tried multibooting with XP and linux before. This is probably a very

Well, with the fixed errata item, when you install GRUB it will have
options for both XP and Linux.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com