Bug#172244: Problem using ext3

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Pete Ryland 

(joeyh: see bottom for the part of this mail which is for you :)

| On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:51:13AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > * Pete Ryland 
| > | 'Load installer modules' would be confusing to a newbie.  IMO, this should
| > | be made simpler to understand - maybe even removed.  I didn't need any
| > | modules anyway. :)
| > 
| > Huh?  You did have to download the extra modules to be able to mkfs,
| > partition and such?
| 
| Well, I didn't have to manually select any extra ones is what I meant.

OK, that makes a lot more sense. :)

| > Also, di-utils-mount-partitions should fail if it can't mount the
| > partition; I don't know why this didn't happen; mount failing should
| > have caused the postinst to fail.  (We should probably say something
| > like ?We tried to mount $partition, but failed, perhaps the kernel
| > doesn't support the file system?.)
| 
| It created a directory, then tried to load the module for ext3, which it
| couldn't find, but didn't notice that it hadn't mounted.  However, when I
| went to mount the next partition, "/" was still the default place to mount
| it at, so I guess there was some part that understood that it wasn't
| mounted, but I don't remember that being reported until the ramdisk ran out
| of space.

Ok, I'll try to reproduce this.

| Another thing I noticed (and I hope you don't mind this being in the same
| bug report) is that I asked the floppy installer for sarge but when it came
| to rebooting and the main package installation, it decided I wanted stable,
| a showstopper for a newbie since coreutils from stable clashes badly with
| fileutils from sarge (they both include '/bin/date').

We are aware of this; we want to test d-i primarily, and that means as
long as base-config starts after boot, d-i has done it's job.  I guess
base-config in sarge/sid should default to sarge/testing, not stable.
joeyh, got any comments on that?

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