Samuel Thibault wrote: > I had to resize pre-installed windows' ntfs partition, and hopefully the > pre-rc2 is advertised as having "online ntfs resizer". But it isn't > advertised in the installation process. The partitionning tool just > tells that there is no room for creating linux partitions. It should > rather see that there is an ntfs partition, and hence propose the > user to launch a shell and use the resize tool by hand. Actually, I > didn't know the name of that tool, so I had to look at /sbin/*ntfs*, > then /bin/*ntfs*, and at last I found /usr/sbin/ntfsresize. This should > at least be documented somewhere. Why use it by hand? Go into the partitioner, select your ntfs partition, and tell it to change its size. > About http proxies, I had some trouble: I wanted to write my own > sources.list as soon as possible, so I didn't chose the http method in > debian-installer, and asked to write it myself. But then I wasn't asked > for an http proxy for the deb http:// lines I included in my > sources.list file, while I would have been if I chose the http method. > It would be useful if the debian installer could parse the handwritten > sources.list somewhat to see that http will be used, and propose to use > an http proxy (just like it does for http method). Ok, reasonable idea I suppose, I'll reassign this bug to base-config for it. -- see shy jo
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