Bug#288409: please consider waiting before installing the base system
Package: install
Version: d-i 20050103
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I have partitioned my disk as follows:
hda1 Windows
hda2 Swap
hda3 root (XFS 200 MB) /
hda4 physical volume
vg0 volume group
usr XFS 8G /mnt/usr
home XFS 8G /mnt/home
var XFS 7G /mnt/var
As you can see, this partition layout needs some links to be set after
mounting the filesystems.
d-i, however, starts installing right away and naturally runs into a
"no space left on device" status pretty fast.
Please consider adding a note that the system will now start writing
data to the target system, so that one can shell out to another
console and manually fix the filesystems to that installation can start.
It might be a good idea to only display that note when partitions with
a non-standard mount point have been created because the user might
want to do manual tweaking maybe only in this situation.
I was able to step back in the process by deleting the files from the
newly built root fs and manually selecting "install base system", but
that mode of operation is quite ugly.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-vash
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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