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Bug#257595: Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4



On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:09:56PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > 	* ugh, this is distressing.  d-i created a swap partition but did not
> > 	  construct /etc/fstab such that it would be mounted (the swap
> > 	  partition did not appear at all).
> 
> I see one reason for this to happen.  You specified a swap partition (or
> d-i did this automatically for you) but then you tried the Guided
> partitioning tool.  In order to start from clean state the first thing
> this tool does is to set all partitions as unused.  Then you canceled
> the autopartitioning tool and set mount points for the partitions in the
> way you wanted.  The problem is that then you had to specify that you
> want to use the swap space.
> 
> I am giving the following title to the cloned bug: "When the
> autopartitioning tool is canceled it should restore the user settings". 
> If you think that there is some other problem, please tell.

No; this sounds like a reasonable hypothesis.  My memory of this install is
getting fuzzy at this point.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |      If you don't think for yourself,
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      others will think for you -- to
branden@debian.org                 |      their advantage.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |      -- Harold Gordon

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