debian-boot: jump to last paragraph (Joey, sorry for the unusual CC; I thought it was better than sending you two copies. :-) )
Okay, I have finally tried the install again using the daily build from 20041018. The short answer is that I was able to get past the point where partman was previously failing to run due to mounted swap partitions (which could not be turned off due to memory usage). Because I did not want to disturb my installation on that machine, I only went as far as using partman to associate partitions with mount points, and then I exited without writing changes to disk. I tried the (partial) install twice; first without using swap at all, then turning on swap before loading installer components from CD. Both times I got a warning at the beginning of the install saying that a minimum of 22MB was needed, but I continued without problems with only 20MB. Without swap I expected to run into memory problems, but didn't. Apparently many modules (e.g. PCMCIA) that were always loaded with the earlier version of the installer are no longer loaded if not needed. This is excellent; congrats to the installer team! In the no-swap trial, partman had no problems because the disk did not have any active swap or mounted partitions. In the swap trial, apparently partman still did not have any trouble, even though enough swap was in use to prevent deactivating the swap. I would hope that there is a check to make sure partitions that are currently in use are not disturbed, but I didn't try it ;-). Again, kudos to the developers responsible for partman! I did notice one negative feature: I could choose ext2, but I could not use my existing ext3 partitions as-is. Perhaps this was just because I was doing a low-memory install; if so, that is an acceptable compromise to me. I did not allow it to actually disturb my existing partitions, so I don't know if it would have tried to reformat my ext3 as ext2 or just mount the existing partitions as ext2; I hope the latter. debian-boot (I am not subscribed): Thanks to the entire debian installer team for an excellent product! The installation process has gone from something that requires detailed knowledge of all the hardware in your machine and much hand tweaking to a smoothly guided step-by-step process requiring only basic computer administration skills. This is something that you should all be proud of, and can only help the popularity of debian. ...Marvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
