Re: Problem formatting existing partitions
Frans Pop wrote:
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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?
It transpired they were mounted, but that's not what the message said.
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.
That is not possible. I retried the partitioning with cfdisk, and _then_
the reformatting failed because the partitions were mounted (I had been
surprised for find Linux partitions on the disk and had been investigating).
One I unmounted the parttitions the formatting proceded normally and
first part of the install has completed. Atm I've got Knoppix booted so
I can inspect the system (and take a copy) before finishing the install.
All the evidence is gone.
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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Cheers
John
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