On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:24:04PM -0500, Andrew Brouwers wrote: >On Jan 11, 2015 11:26 AM, "Steve McIntyre" <st...@einval.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:10:39AM -0500, Andrew Brouwers wrote: >> > >> >I suspect that the debian installer wasn't quite sure how to handle it >> >being 32-bit, as the D-I seems to prefer and use 16. As a result, the >> >partitioning failed. I was eventually able to go back, and after some >> >selecting/un-selecting, finally noticed that the installer flagged the >> >partition with "f" for format. >> >> It's a deliberate choice, nothing particularly to do with it being 16- >> or 32-bit. We try to keep existing ESPs in case there are other OSes >> using them, basically. > >So the installer should have been fine dealing with a 32bit partition?
That's correct, yes. >That was not my experience; it failed until I was able to trigger the >installer to format the partition, at which point package installation >proceeded. My theory was just that it couldn't mount or interact with >fat32 for some reason. Very off - that doesn't match my own memory of testing this. We also deliberately choose to format with FAT32 on amd64! Hmmm, curious now - is there anything special about the NLS settings of the earlier OS, maybe? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
