Package: debian-installer Version: 2004-12-27 i386 floppies Severity: normal
Booted on an i386 NEC laptop, no special boot options, from the boot, root floppies, and installed the drivers floppy (and answered other questions) following the standard interactive dialogues. Everything works well. While looking at the partition table in partman (but changing nothing), I alt-F2'd to work in 'rescue' mode for a while, the real reason I had started the installer (a corrupt partition). I assumed that something like 'e2fsck -cc -y /dev/discs/disc0/part8' should work, but it doesn't -- it complains "sh: missing 'badblocks'" or words to that effect. e2fsck succeeds, but doesn't do the block scan. Thanks to the included wget, I was able to copy /sbin/badblocks from a working sarge system, drop it into the installer's /sbin, and all worked well. Thanks. I assume we should have badblocks for use by mke2fs, too. I see this was mentioned in #239911, but it seems that user couldn't even run e2fsck -- maybe he didn't install the 'drivers' (inappropriately named, eh?). Did I, too, do something wrong? Shouldn't badblocks be there? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10zona-06022se Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
