Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > As I attempt to do more not-so-uncommon things (with the 2004-01-03
> > snapshot)...
>
> This is very old now.... can you please try a new image from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if that
> works better?
Yes, I've planned to test the latest beta, I'll let you know. BTW,
this @alcove email will expire soon, please use the @d.o one for
further contact.
> > - I initially have a HD with a single ext3 partition + swap (from a
> > previous RH install). If I repartition by deleting the ext3 and
> > repartitionning that space in 2, on the partition setup screen I
> > notice the 1st partition is already listed as ext3, and the 2nd not.
> > Then I realize it comes from the previous (RH) install. I had not
> > realized that when just selecting a single partition, when I thought
> > "ext3" was just a default.
>
> The partitioning tool recognizes the existing file system on that
> partition and shows it. The 2nd partition didn't have the start of a
> new partition... maybe the partitioning tool should overwrite the
> beginning of a partion when creating one. Hmm, no, that wouldn't work
> because creating partitions is first only done in memory.
Then partition objects in memory should probably be initialized as
having no fs on them, instead of looking up the disk. Or, maybe
better, they could be initialized from disk only if the fs size
matches (or maybe is smaller than) the new partition, and maybe offer
to resize2fs to the partition size if it was smaller than the new
partition ?
> > Now if my original single-partition-over-RH had gone throught the
> > reboot stage, I may surely have ended up with a strange install. And
>
> Well, you have to mark the partition as to be formated.
I've assimilated this by now ;), but for some reason it did not seem
intuitive to me when doing this first install with d-i. I'll look at
the latest version, and see if I still feel some needed improvements
in this area.
> > - Now when I decide to split the existing partition in 2, but do not
> > realize I must explicitely select "format as ext3", since my partition
> > already appears as having ext3 selected (I thought), and go on, I'm
> > brought back to the main menu on the next step, and requesting to
> > install the base system brings me back there again almost instantly.
>
> Oh, hold on. So you used the new tool. So you didn't select "format
> as ext3". But what did you select instead? "dont touch" ? Because
> if you choose nothing at all, you shouldn't have been able to assign a
> mount point at all.
I suppose I used the default choice, thinking the partitionner was by
default suggesting to put an ext3 fs on the 1st partition I created
(which could have been a reasonable suggestion), whereas it was
telling me something different - see above.
> > - Selecting "French" as the keyboard layout after reboot, I do not
> > have time to see the keymap name, and subsequent error message, before
> > the next dialog screen. And I end up with a querty-looking layout.
>
> Can you check if this has been fixed?
I think it has, and beta3 was correct here.
Regards,
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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/
Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres
Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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