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Re: Bug#739767: The partitioning phase of the installer crashes when using usb as installation medium



Control: reassign -1 debian-installer

On Sb, 22 feb 14, 13:08:23, Mark Nuyts wrote:
> Package: installer
> 
> severity: important
> 
> 
> Dear Installer Team,
> 
> I used the nightly build of the Jessy i386 mini.iso (22-Feb-2014
> 00:16) to install to an old laptop.
> 
> I wrote the mini.iso to a usb-stick using unetbootin.
> 
> During the partitioning phase of the installation i got the following error:
> 
> "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda1
> -- Device or resource busy.  This means Linux won't know about any
> changes you made to /dev/sda1 until you reboot --"
> 
> There is an option to ignore, but this doesn't alleviate the problem.
> 
> As a usb-stick is an increasingly popular installation medium, I would
> categorize this bug as important.
> 
> 
> Work around:
> 
> + Remove the usb-stick with the netinstaller before entering the
> partioning phase of the installation.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> Mark

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