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Bug#593654: marked as done (installation-reports: [netinst squeeze daily 2010-08-18 amd64] Formatting of partitions fails due to missing /etc/mtab)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Situation:
Disks were already partitioned from previous lenny installation, but they were
selected for formatting to install squeeze from scratch.

Problem:
The installer failed on creating filesystem (tried ext3 and ext4).
Running mkfs.ext3 manually from console complained about missing /etc/mtab, so
mount status could not be determined.

Workaround:
"touch /etc/mtab" also makes the installer succeed creating the filesystem.



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: cd
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd  2010-08-18
Date: <Date and time of the install>

Machine: desktop, core i5
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [ ]
Detect network card:    [ ]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: installation-reports
Version: squeeze RC2 release

Tested RC2 (netinst, amd64) in an virtual machine: Partitioning,
formatting, rebooting, reformatting. /etc/mtab is also present and
populated.

Works fine, thanks.

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