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Bug#254727: marked as done (Creates swap even when there is already one)

Your message dated Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:01:28 +0100
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and subject line Re: #254727 Creates swap even when there is already one
has caused the Debian Bug report #254727,
regarding Creates swap even when there is already one
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: 6 Jun 2004 (Beta4 image)
uname -a: Linux mulder 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i586 
GNU/Linux
Date: 6 Jun 2004
Method: Hard disk boot (I downloaded the cd image and booted with the vmlinuz 
image, as described in the Installation-HOWTO)

Machine: HP Vectra
Processor: Pentium 166 MHz
Memory: 112 MB
Root Device: IDE /dev/hdb2
Root Size/partition table: Where can I find the partition table?
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
---lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 03)
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 
23)
0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX 
or /GX] (rev 14)
0000:00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 
01)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] 
(rev 01)

---lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:1250 (rev 03)
0000:00:06.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9050
0000:00:0c.0 Class 0100: 1000:0001 (rev 23)
0000:00:0d.0 Class 0300: 5333:8901 (rev 14)
0000:00:0f.0 Class 0601: 8086:7000 (rev 01)
0000:00:0f.1 Class 0101: 8086:7010
0000:00:0f.2 Class 0c03: 8086:7020 (rev 01)

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

Initial boot worked:    [E]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [O]

Comments/Problems:

The initial boot didn't work. The installation manual said that I had to type 
this in lilo.conf:

image=/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz
	label=newinstall
	initrd=/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz
	append="devfs=mount,dall"

It said that a 'root=' line would be ignored. But when I booted, it said that 
it couldn't open the root file system. I found that I had to append 
'root=/dev/ram' before booting the image; this worked well.

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I was also not really happy with the automatic partioning. I already had some 
partions, but I wanted to let the installer partition the drive 
automatically, so delete the partitions and let the installer partition the 
free space. However, I couldn't delete the partition with the downloaded 
cd-image (of course). I deleted the other partitions, but the installer 
didn't use the space after the cd-image (where formerly my swap partition 
resided). Instead, it created a swap partition in the free space _before_ the 
partition with the cd-image. I still wanted to use the space after it, so I 
created a swap partition in that space and let the installer try it again. 
But it made a second swap partition! That's why I'm not really happy with 
it...

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The bootloader installed well, but it didn't include Windows NT on my first 
disk (not that I use it very often... :) ). I had to do this manually. Maybe 
this is because I had LILO before I started with the installation, which 
resided before the WinNT bootloader, so that the installer couldn't recognize 
it.

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I hope this is useful.

Frank Mulder

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> I've noticed the same behavior. Also (as you noticed as well), if there 
> already is a swap partition on the drive to begin with, automatic 
> partitioning will still create a new swap partition instead of using the 
> existing one.

Shortly this has infact been trimmed even more, to not touch existing swap 
partitions by default, to not break a hibernated parallel installation.

So, not a bug, but a feature for multi-OS installations / machines.

Closing this report.


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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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