reassign 593812 partman-basicmethods severity 593812 wishlist thanks Quoting Alain rpnpif (rnpif@free.fr): > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > I have trouble understanding what you mean by "to upgrade > > initramfstools in mod edebootstrap". > > > > Could you give us the messages that appear on the fourth console? As > > Aurélien was explaining, if something is on-interactive when > > installed, then *this* package has a bug, not d-i. > > > > Unless we can find which package to reassign this bug report, I think > > we should close it. Having D-I to wait indefinitely when a package is > > prompting the user is *normal* behavior for D-I (the faulty part is > > tha package). > > My partition has some conf files of Lenny. I wanted kept it to perhaps > retreive my setup of before. > Installing, I accept that d-i does not format my old partition. When it > saw my config files that conflict with the news, it ask what action to > do with it. In graphic mode, the answers are automatic (--yes ?) not with > the normal install mode. It is here the bug. So, is not in d-i the bug ? I'm afraid no. It is even surprising that g-i works where the text installer doesn't as I don't see any functionnality difference in that matter: re-using existing partitions with a Linux system already installed on them is not supported at all. The installer *does* warn when no partitions are marked for formatting. I think it doesn't warn when users try to re-use an existing partition for / or /usr but, imho, it should. Reassigning this to partman-basicmethods, to which I think it belongs. But, really, the bug is more not warning you thatg re-using existing partitions is not supported than dealing with consequences of it, I'm afraid.
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