Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Daily build 11-20-2004 uname -a: Linux owl 2.6.8-1 Thu Nov 11 11:49:00 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-11-25 Method: boot off netinst cd, get debs from ftp
Machine: Intel 865P motherboard Processor: Celeron 2.6mhz EVERYTHING WORKED, but... Comments: I had an old IDE hard drive in this machine with another debian install on it. I wanted to install a clean debian on a new SATA drive I bought and have radically different partitions. I just wanted to retain SOME data. So I threw the SATA drive in, booted up debian installer... It was late at night, and I was tired and bleary eyed, but when it asked "Install Grub to MBR" I said yes. Unfortunately, while I partitioned only the sata drive and installed the base system to only that drive, it automatically did a grub-install (hd0) on the ide drive. It would be cool if, when installing on a multiple-hard-drive system, you could ask the user WHICH hard drive's MBR to use for a grub install. Also, when I rebooted with the installer and just wanted to install grub to the MBR, it wouldn't let me do it without repartitioning. I know I would have had to then manually tell grub which kernel to point to, but it would be cool if I could have forced this somehow (I guess I could have dropped to a shell on another console and done a manual grub-install (hd1)...) I'm not sure if "expert mode" gives more flexibility with this -- i didn't try it. Otherwise, everything went great. The installer keeps getting better! It's awesome! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
