Bug#358348: installation-report: Installation report for etch2 beta on Powerbook G4
reassign 358348 partman-newworld
severity 358348 important
retitle 358348 Resizing hfs partition results in data loss
thanks
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 11:39, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 1.
> He had MacOS X occupying the whole hard disc, so we backuped all data
> and re-installed MacOS to repartition the disk. The standard MacOS
> installation procedure created a 32k HFS+ partition, followed by 134 MB
> free disk space and followed by the real MacOS partition.
> The yaboot installer complained that 900k would be needed, so we
> resized the 32k partition to something larger using the 134 megs behind
> it. This wept the whole partition clean, including the installed MacOS
> X. If resizing HFS+ partitions is experimental it shouldn't be offered
> in the installer, I guess.
> After a reinstall of MacOS X where we created a sufficiently large boot
> partition everything went fine.
Reassigning to partman for this issue (hope partman-newworld is correct).
However, as far as I can tell [1] the option to resize should not even be
offered by partman for hfs partitions. How did you do the resizing?
[1] By looking at the code in:
partman-partitioning/active_partition/resize/choices
> 2.
> We installed the Desktop-Task, which installed Gnome. No desktop war
> flames intended, but a separate "Desktop/KDE", which installs a KDE
> based system including OpenOffice would be very much appreciated.
The eternal discussion. FWIW, I agree with you.
> 3.
> German i18n was fine, except the very awkward "Tottasten" for
> dead_keys. I have to admit I don't have better a translation, though.
Has been discussed on German l10n lists in the past IIRC.
> 4.
> Auto-detection of the Nvidia graphic card failed. It created an fbdev
> based X11 config, which failed to start. After manual configuration of
> the "nv" driver everything was fine.
Not really an installer issue. Please file a bug report against Xorg if
you want to follow up on this.
> Besides the above the installation was very smooth and worked just
> great. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Thank you.
Cheers,
FJP
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