Bug#342469: Package: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2005-12-07 U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Date: 2005-12-07 10 AM approximately
Method: Boot CD #1
Machine: Gateway Pentium 4 Desktop
Processor: Pentium 4 (manufactured in 2001)
Memory: 128 MB
Root Device: IDE see Comments - 120 GB
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] =OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
This system use to have a Red Hat system on hdb and a Windows system on hda
with a small - about 2 mb fat32 on hdb. The hardware for hda failed, was
replaced and rebuilt except for the dual boot access. It was decided to
rebuild the Linux system with Debian. All crit1cal data will be restored
after the rebuild of the Linux system. I want to keep the partitions the
same size and rebuild into the same space on hdb. The install process
recognizes the existing partitions but does not recognize which one should
be made the boot partition or which one should be made the user data
partition. The questions asked provide no obvious way of giving the
information to the program. The default wants to completely reformat hdb
eliminating the fat32 extent. That is not desireable! the existing
partitions have about 128 mb in what should be the boot partition, a swap
partition, a large user partition (ext3), and the small fat32 partition.
The swap partition is recognized.
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