On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0100, ydirson wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > Partition hard drives: > > if I just follow the steps lineraly, no problem. At first, I had hit > cancel at some point before (have to check and reproduce), and the HD > selection menu was incomplete (did not mention the probbedname of the > drive, only the devfs name, and no "terminate" choice). When > selecting the drive, all I could see was the blue background - could > Ctrl-C out of it, but could not achieve partitionning at all.
I could narrow the problem, here are the steps to reproduce. You'll need a broken mirror for this to work (at least a mirror with not all of the files required to download the initial packages): - when 1st asked to select a mirror, enter informations manually to point to your local incomplete mirror (FWIW there is a proxy between the test machine and the mirror). - when the download step fails, go back to mirror selection (note: we have here Z choices "go back" and "continue", both of which lead into the main menu to the next step, despite the error). - then select a valid one (I use ftp2.de.d.o) - download completes fine, and the list of discs to partition is presented, featuring the problem described above I could find nothing obviously alarming on this subject in syslog, although there are many "broken dependency" reported all around. I saved the syslog through nc (hopefully installed by a previous run on the target HD, kudos to you for having put it here ;) Syslog filtered for "partition" reads the following - full syslog available on request: [...] Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.debug main-menu[227]: DEBUG: search for package resolving mounted-partitions, dependency from base-installer Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.info main-menu[227]: INFO: broken dependency: debootstrap-udeb to mounted-partitions Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.info main-menu[227]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for di-utils-partitioner [...] Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.debug main-menu[227]: DEBUG: Menu item 'di-utils-partitioner' selected Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.debug main-menu[227]: DEBUG: configure di-utils-partitioner, status: 2 Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.warn main-menu[227]: WARNING **: Unable to set title for di-utils-partitioner. HTH, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Développeur Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
