Bug#246327: installation-reports

["Nathan Tallent" <eraxxon@alumni.rice.edu>]

I apologize for the long delay.  Is there a way to run the installer in a
'dryrun' mode (analagous to make -n)?  I don't have a particular desire to
clobber my current installation.

thanks,
-Nathan.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Michlmayr" <tbm@cyrius.com>
To: "Nathan Tallent" <eraxxon@alumni.rice.edu>
Cc: <246327@bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: installation-reports


> * Nathan Tallent <eraxxon@alumni.rice.edu> [2004-04-28 09:16]:
> > Debian-installer-version:
> >   Snapshot from 2004-04-27
> >
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040427/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
>
> Hi Nathan, do you think you could get a daily image from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see which of
> the issues you've reported originally have been dealt with.
>
> >   I tried the initial boot with the linux26 option, but quickly ran
> >   into trouble when d-i could not detect my CD-ROM drive.
>
> Does it find it now?  Does 2.4 recognize the drive?
>
> > * Partition hard drives
> >   - d-i claims that 510 MB is the largest swap partition possible,
> >     which is ludicrous.  (Even Windows has created a ~2 Gb swapfile
>
> Hmm, this is probably still there.  Can you confirm?  I'm not sure if
> swap partitiones > 500 megs are supported in Linux these days.
>
> > * Install boot loader
> [...]
>
> Can you check if these problems still exist?
> -- 
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com
>