Re: Installation on external USB harddisk? [and other issues]

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 27.V.2004 at 16:19 (-0300) Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org> [2004-05-26 17:58]:
> 
> > 1. If the installation failed at some point, one cannot do the
> >    "install base system" step again - it fails.  Instead one has
> >    not only to redo the partition step again, but one has to
> >    remove(!) the partition and recreate them.  Otherwise cruft
> 
> Hmm, when you mark the partition as format and enter the partitioner
> again, is it not formated?

Partman remembers that the partition has already been formatted and
doesn't format it for second time.  Instead of rebooting one could
change for example the file system from ext3 to reiserfs and then back
to ext3.  Alternatively one could also change temporary the method
(from "format" to "don't use" and then back to "format").

This is indeed not intuitive.  Probably at every start partman has to
forget which partitions have been formated.

Anton Zinoviev