Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca
> > <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be
> > <mailto:Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be>> wrote:
> >
> >     Mark wrote:
> >
> >     > Yes, but you said this wasn't for beginners in your original post so
> >     > if a non-beginner can't get the Bootable Flag set up on the right
> >     > partition to boot, they are not a non-beginner...so this point
> >     > probably doesn't apply.
> >     >
> >     Okay. But why allowing something that has no interest to be done,
> >     to be
> >     done, be it by a beginner or not?
> >
> >
> > Good point.  Maybe the code didn't fit into the Debian Installer to
> > determine which partitions to allow the user to make bootable?  Your
> > guess is as good as mine.
> Same applies for the fact of checking at least two times `/stuff/', for
> different (at least two) partitions. If the effect of using such a
> scheme is documented, this might be interesting to understand what it
> does. But it does not look documented, and I don't understand i) what
> could happen if I used such a scheme; ii) its reason to be there.
> 
Seems like a good reason to file a bug report, if you ask me.  Before
doing so, you might want to actually try an installation like that.  Who
knows, maybe the installer will throw an error on the next screen.

-Rob