reassign 595818 partman-base thanks Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > The current IBM-PC style partitioner uses the no-good 255 heads, 63 > sectors/track default format from 20 years ago, which misaligns > partitions on just about every device (logical or hardware) that has a > reason to care about something other than 512 bytes.
Dealing with alignment stuff has been introduced in partman-base 140 and enhanced in later versions. If you were using a weekly built netinst image (that includes d-i alpha1 released in Feb. 2010), you may be using an earlier version. Can you try the latest *netboot* daily builds from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer? Installing squeeze with these should use the latest partman-base and give what you expect (at least I think: I know nothing to these things, I'm just guessing from changelogs).
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