Hi, Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2012, 17:43:03 schrieb Brian Potkin: > On Mon 03 Dec 2012 at 11:08:00 +0100, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > As I was not concentrated during the disk partitioning process, the > > partition manager wanted to use my USB flash drive used for booting the > > installer for the system installation, and I only noticed when the > > partitioning table was already written.
[Snip] > > I wonder why this could happen, but I believe it should not be possible > > to select the medium from which the installer was booted as a system > > disk in the partitioning manager. > > The user may have good reasons to install Debian in the free space of > the device holding the installer. You actually tried to format the whole > device, part of which was mounted, so, as you observe, this was not > allowed by mkfs.whatever. Agreed. > The whole device can be used if the netboot mini.iso is written to it. > This is a valid thing to do (Debian on a flash drive). Your suggestion > would prevent it happening. Ah, I didn't know that. However, in my case (netinst image on USB) a seemingly valid selection in the partition manager caused my USB stick to be unusable. I think the installer may be able to disallow this scenario, but I do not know how to distinguish between the case where using the whole drive is possible from the case where it is not. > [Snip] > > > As detailed above, the partition manager at first wanted to use my USB > > flash drive from which the installer was loaded, as a system disk. > > This occurred because you instructed it to do that. Losing concentration > at the partitioning stage can be fatal. :) :) > Apart from this little glitch it would appear the installer has behaved > faultlessly and you successfully booted into the new system. Thank you > for your report. Very welcome! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212032021.31249.jra...@uni-bremen.de
