Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:47:04PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2010 15:14:03 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> > Rob Owens wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Maybe (for the possibly thrown error). I don't know, and I can't test
> > nowadays because I simply don't have another PC which could receive a
> > new Debian install. But if somebody can test, I would appreciate
> > receiving the results.
>
> If I have time, I'll try - once I am clear what it is that you want. I'm
> afraid that at the moment I haven't succeeded in understanding what it is
> that you want.
>
I tried it. It took about 5 minutes in virtualbox-ose.
The installer lets me assign 2 partitions with the same mount point, but
when I hit "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk", I get a red
screen with an error "Two file systems are assigned the same mount point
(/stuff)"..."Please correct this by changing mount points".
At that point I can hit either "continue" or "go back". Both choices
bring me back to the "Partition disks" screen. So it seems it is
impossible to proceed with two partitions sharing the same mount point
-- as it should be.
-Rob
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