----- Forwarded message from Dave Whiteley <d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk> ----- From: Dave Whiteley <d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:48:36 +0100 To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#261079: Netinst Daily Build 32/4/2004 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:17:11AM -0600, Joey Hess wrote: > Dave Whiteley wrote: > > We were taken to the partitioner. We set up the required partitions. > > During this I made some bad primary/logical decisions, which meant > > that part of the disk was unusable. I deleted some of my partitions > > and started again. I wrote the changes to the disk. The install did > > not then proceed to formatting. > > Please, we need more details,. What was the last thing that you saw? > > -- > see shy jo Joey, I am working from memory. I was doing the install on a colleagues machine as dual boot with 'doze. As there is a degree of user resistance to Linux here, I have to be careful to make light of any problems when they do occur. So I apologise for not documenting the problem more usefully. As I recall, I had done the initial stages of the install up to the point of partitioning the approx. 40 Gb disk. This was already split into two approx. 20 GB ntfs partitions. I was installing Debian using the second partition. The partitioner allowed me to choose the second partition. I deleted it. I then started creating new partitions on the drive. If I recall correctly I first created a 1Gb Fat32 partition for data exchange between OSs. Then a 512 Mb Swap. Then a 10 GB ext3 partition for /home. I then found that the rest of the disk was unusable because of the primary/logical assignment I had made. I therefore deleted the new partitions and started again. I repeated the partition creation, and this time was able to assign the remaining approx. 8GB for the root partition. I chose to write the partition changes. I was then returned to the partitioning menu. I repeated the partition writing a number of times, but it still did not permit me to proceed with the partitioning. I then tried to back out of the partitioner, which took me to the installer menu. Accepting the default here again took me to the partitioner. At this point I quit using the daily netinst CD, and reverted to a Beta 4 one. When this came to the point of partitioning the disk it showed that the disk had in fact been partitioned, but I suspect, not formatted. Again apologies for my vagueness. Keep up the superb work! Dave -- Dave Whiteley d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk Phone +44 (0)113 343 2059 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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