Bug#325278:

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:32:40AM -0500, Andrew Brobston wrote:
> I booted into linux26 with no other options specified. As you can see, I 
> quit at partitioning. This is a week-old box with lots of free space on the 
> hard drive, and I did defrag before trying this install. I have a backup of 
> the whole WinXP system, but I really, really don't want to use it. I was 
> unable to resize the one (and only) NTFS partition. I selected manual 
> partitioning, and I selected the line with the hard drive size information 
> (60GB). The installer did not give me a chance to specify a new size for the 
> partition, however. Instead, I got a warning that the partition table would 
> be written and that I could not undo the changes, so I chickened out. I 
> wonder if this issue is related to the "old errata for rc2" that the
> "2.6installer has the potential to mess up Windows partitioning."

There is no support for partition resizing in the installer (That I know
of at least).  You will have to use something else to do the NTFS
resizing first before installing.

> Any help here?
> 
> Also, it would be nice if it was possible to detect a wireless networking 
> adapter, configure it, and use it for the netinst install. Not critical to 
> my situation, but I wouldn't have to go to the university to do the install 
> if that worked.

Unfortunately most wireless adapters don't have free drivers.  Many
don't have any drivers other than windows and need ndiswrapper or
driverloader to use the windows driver.  The debian installer certainly
can't accomodate those.

Len Sorensen