Re: Problem formatting existing partitions
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On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:14, John wrote:
> I'm trying to install to a disk with existing (ext3) parititions.
> I chose to use the existing partitions, to reformat them as ext3.
> The format failed as the partitions have existing journals.
That should not cause the formatting to fail. I do this all the time.
Could it be the failure occurs because the partitions are mounted in
some way?
If not please file a full installation report using [1] and attach the
files syslog, messages and partman from /var/log directory (if possible).
That should contain all the information we need to track down the problem.
> On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the
> disks to appear in the traditional place and to munge them with more
> user-friendly tools such as fdisk?
I'm afraid you'll have to start fdisk with /dev/discs/...
> btw Is there any reason that LAN-booting expects I want to do a network
> install? I could, for example, install off USB on a system that won't
> boot USB.
The reason is we expect 99,9% of people using the netboot boot images to
install off the network :-)
You could try to place the hd-image boot images instead of the netboot ones
on your boot server. I think they should contain the functionality to use
an iso on e.g. an usb stick.
[1] http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
Cheers,
FJP
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