On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> convenience.  This install is about the 6th I have done, and I am back to the 
> only way that works, which it let the SOB use all the disk as it sees fit.  
> And 
> this is not a wheezy install as such, that install has self destructed within 
> 2 hours of the initial reboot while I was trying to recover data that is in 
> some cases 15 years old from the failing drive. 

What do you mean here? How can you have 15 yr old data on a newly
installed system?

> What is very discouraging in all this is that to a person, you _al_l believe 
> the installer can do no wrong, AND its onvious that this list is not in any 
> way connected to the people that build the install, so you are not telling 
> the 
> install image people there is a problem with how it handles these new 4k 
> sector disks.

You're going to have provide technical data. You must have worked on
faults where the customer was saying on thing, but you knew you needed
to check certain conditions yourself for diagnostic purposes.

> So the problem is not going to get fixed due to a lack of communication. 

Correct, it's not. Hard data is what's required.

> bug tracker isn't accessible to me as I don't even have incoming mail setup 
> such that I could confirm the subscription I'd need to file the bug.  Chicken 
> v 

To be honest, a bug report in the manner you've reported here would not
be at all helpful. You need to explain what you did, what you expected
what the actual outcome was so that the person dealing with the bug can
reproduce it using the same tools you used.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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