Bug#695008: installation-reports: Acer TM8371 nicely installed, partitioning could be improved, suspend to RAM broken
Hi,
Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2012, 17:43:03 schrieb Brian Potkin:
> On Mon 03 Dec 2012 at 11:08:00 +0100, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > As I was not concentrated during the disk partitioning process, the
> > partition manager wanted to use my USB flash drive used for booting the
> > installer for the system installation, and I only noticed when the
> > partitioning table was already written.
[Snip]
> > I wonder why this could happen, but I believe it should not be possible
> > to select the medium from which the installer was booted as a system
> > disk in the partitioning manager.
>
> The user may have good reasons to install Debian in the free space of
> the device holding the installer. You actually tried to format the whole
> device, part of which was mounted, so, as you observe, this was not
> allowed by mkfs.whatever.
Agreed.
> The whole device can be used if the netboot mini.iso is written to it.
> This is a valid thing to do (Debian on a flash drive). Your suggestion
> would prevent it happening.
Ah, I didn't know that. However, in my case (netinst image on USB) a seemingly
valid selection in the partition manager caused my USB stick to be unusable. I
think the installer may be able to disallow this scenario, but I do not know
how to distinguish between the case where using the whole drive is possible
from the case where it is not.
> [Snip]
>
> > As detailed above, the partition manager at first wanted to use my USB
> > flash drive from which the installer was loaded, as a system disk.
>
> This occurred because you instructed it to do that. Losing concentration
> at the partitioning stage can be fatal. :)
:)
> Apart from this little glitch it would appear the installer has behaved
> faultlessly and you successfully booted into the new system. Thank you
> for your report.
Very welcome!
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