RE: Debian installer beta 4 can't mount ext3 partitions
Jason Rennie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just did a Debian Sarge install using the beta 4 installer. I had
> an existing ext3 paritition that I wanted to mount as /home, but after
> "manually partitioning" and telling Debian to use the existing format,
> Debian complained that the ext2 filesystem had something wrong with
> it. I don't have any ext2 filesystems. I presume it was looking at
> the ext3 filesystem, trying to mount it as an ext2 filesystem. When I
> told Debian to ignore the partition, it installed fine.
>
> Anyone else seen this problem? Has it been fixed in one of the daily
> installer builds?
>
> Jason
I had that problem, what I did was configure all partitions, not mount /home
at all, let the pc build and once it was finished edited /etc/fstab and add
in the home partition,
the problem is fixed in the latest installer AFAIK
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