Re: Some reflections on the future of partman [was: Partman]

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:

> Anton Zinoviev schrieb:
>
> > 3. See how this problem is solved by SuSE - YaST supports both text and
> > graphical installs, both have very nice look and as far as I know there
> > is almost no duplicate code (due to text+graphics).  
>
>
> Not everything is good, that looks pretty.
> Some weeks ago I tried to install Suse 9.0 on my test machine, 
> ordinary Celeron 600 with a 106 GB IDE-HDD. hda1 - hda8 are used by 
> other installations. Suse partitioner was unable to create a hda9 und 
> did not recognize the full 160 GB disk size. Thus I installed Suse 
> under VMware with sarge as host, which was straight ahead. There it 
> should live, captured on a single virtual disk.


Didn't I see someone with that self-same problem on Debian in the past 
few days? Might on debian-user.


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John

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