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Bug#264505: installation bug



* Glen Kaukola <gkaukola@charter.net> [2004-08-08 23:39]:
> I created 2 RAID partitions and turned those into a software RAID 0
> device.  I then created two more RAID partitions and went to turn
> them into another software RAID 0 device, but the installer told me
> there were no RAID partitions to put the RAID on.  When I deleted
> everything and started over, I created all my partitions first and
> then went to create RAID devices at which point things worked.

Strange, this shouldn't happen... when you go to the RAID
configuration menu, it will ask you to confirm that it's okay to write
the information to disk.  Do you remember if this was done both times
you entered the RAID config menu?

> In the course of partitioning I also came across a bug where it wouldn't 
> let me create a partition on the second disk drive.  I would select the 
> free space on the second drive, make a partition, but then it would put 
> the partition on the first drive.  I deleted it a number of times and 

This is a known bug (when you have two identical disks).  I think
someone's working on it.

> it's appropriate to throw comments here or whatever, but I going to 
> anyway...a graphical installer would be a lot cooler, with something 
> like synaptic for choosing packages.  The new installer still seems a 

We'll probably work on a graphical installer for the next release
(i.e. when sarge is out).
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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