Package: 0 Version: Debian DVDEB50BN_i386-1 Severity: serious File: installer Justification: Requires experience and lateral thinking to circumvent
1. With systems with a shrunk NTFS partion (/dev/sda1) one goes through the partioning dialog to set up a root partition (/dev/sda5), a swap partition (/dev/sda6), a home partition (/dev/sad7) and a spare partition (/dev/sda8) and then commits the configuration to disc, the installer refuses to format the root partition and the installation is aborted. This was tried first with ReiserFS and then with Ext3. The only workaround was to buy a second disc configured as /dev/sda and the original disc /dev/sdb. The installer worked fine on a "clean" disc with a couple of empty partitions. That occurred on this machine (about 4 months ago). 2. A week ago, I tried to install Debian (Lenny) on a Toshiba Laptop over an old version of Kubuntu with existing home and spare partitions with the same frustrating results. This time, I replaced the old disc with a virgin new disc (Western Digital Scorpio 120GB). Using the manual layout option I was unable to create any partions on it. Workaround: invoke the "root plus home" auto option, commit to disc and then abort the installation. The installation was then repeated and then I was able to edit the created partitions manually and the installation was completed normally. 3. This is not really slick! (No such problems were encountered with Ubuntu or Slackware 12.2) John Hunter -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
