Bug#251170: Package: installation-reports
You sent a very usefull installation report, thank you.
On 27.V.2004 Pete Shinners wrote:
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> First, I spent a few times going into the partion tool. Each time
> starting I got a long pause on the "partition scan". Checking with the
> other terminals I noticed it was scanning partitions on
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. This part of the scan took a long time. I would
> recommend not scanning anything under /dev/cdroms when looking for drive
> partitions.
Can you remember the title of the progress bar. Was it "Scanning
disks..." or "Detecting file systems..."? How you decided that the
partitioner scanned /dev/cdroms/cdrom0? There is a (not so long) pause
on "Detecting file systems..." and it is unavoidable but I hope that
the partitioner doesn't try to detect CDROM devices. Did you see the
CDROM as a device in the main partitioning dialog?
> The little symbols on the partition screen are a bit confusing. Read the
> help for them, but still never learned what the lightning bolt was for
> (boot?). A legend of the symbols and their meanings directly on the
> partition page would be helpful.
I think that there is already a description of the lightning bolt in the
help. A legend directly on the partition page seams impossible as it
has to stay on top of the screen (due to limitation of the debconf
interface that d-i uses) and as a result the partition table will be
invisible.
> I have two existing EXT3 partitions that I wanted to mount under /home
> and /xandros. (you can see from my current partion mount list they are
> working.) But I could not get them mounted with the partioner tool. Each
> one gave me the following error, "This ext2 filesystem has a rather
> strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)."
This will be fixed.
> My last note here is just an observation. Since I was working with
> existing partitions a bit, I was wondering If there was any difference
> between the top level "Do not use this partition" option, or just
> setting the mount point to "no mount point". I ended up going with the
> "The do not use...", but was wondering if there was a difference.
You reported a usability problem of the installer. Another problem is
that when the method is "do not use" the user is not allowed to set a
mount point and it is not obvious that the method should be changed in
order to set mount point.
> Oh, and one last thing. When booting now I get an ugly message about
> problems with the partition tables not matching. This happens early in
> the boot and scrolls away faster than I can really read. The error
> doesn't show up in dmesg either. I haven't been getting this before,
> don't know if it's a problem I had previosly and only 2.6.x kernels
> detect. Or if the debian installer did something funny with the partitions?
I don't know about this.
Anton Zinoviev
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