Bug#250284: Debian-Installer Beta 4 bug report
> 1. Switching text consoles during install causes tty1 to become garbled
> and unusable. The others remain fine. (This doesn't happen after the
> system boots up the first time.) This happens on real hardware and on
> virtual machines (both VMware and VirtualPC). It occurs both when
> booting with kernel 2.6.
IIRC, this is fixed now
>
> 2. The partition editor doesn't check for minimum block device/partition
> size requirements for filesystem options. Basically, it calculated a 20
> MB /tmp filesystem for my installation. I prefer reiserfs, so I
> adjusted all partitions accordingly (knowing this would fail with /tmp
> since reiserfs requires in the neighborhood of 30 MB for the journal,
> AFAIK). The failure was not very graceful. A warning or an adjustment
> of the partitions would be very helpful here.
I very recently changed the minimum size for the root file system from
30MB to 70MB.
You here suggest that 20MB for /tmp may be too small, right? What do
you mean by "not very graceful"?
Which minimum size do you think would be enough? This seems tricky as
20MB may be enough for an ext2 FS, but probably not for reiserfs as
you suggest.
> 3. cfdisk cannot be used to partition the disk. It appears the target
> device is locked somehow, restricting the use of alternative
> partitioning tools. This is *really* annoying (the partition editor in
> the installer is pretty unwieldy).
You tried to use the alternative partitioning *after* using partman,
right?
If that is not possible because of some locking, you're right, yes
there's a bug around..:-)
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