Just installed Sarge, Have a bug report!
I played around with my LVM setup for my Fedora Core 3 installation last
night to free up a 35gb block on which I did a net install of Debian
3.1. During the Debian installation, I had a lot of trouble with the
partitioner. My LVM setup in Fedora was a 35gb pv on hda4 and a 74gb pv
on hdb2. I did a pvmove to transfer my data off hda4, then during the
Debian install, I reformatted that partition into an ext2 "/" partition.
I had the little black smily face by hda4 and my existing swap
partition, but it also wanted to reformat the 74gb hdb2 physical volume.
I selected "Do not use partition," but I kept getting the white smiley
face by it, and it kept telling me that it needed to format hdb2 before
I could install, which I did not want to do. I even booted with the
Knoppix 3.6 cd and created the new ext2 partition again with qtparted,
but the Debian installer kept insisting that I reformat my fedora
installation and wouldn't let me install onto the already formatted and
existing hda4.
I ended up having to pop my case open and unplug the second hard drive
so that the Debian installer couldn't see it. After that, the
installation went fine.
I assume this is a problem that needs to be addressed, unless it is just
Debian's way of dealing with the competition... ;)
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