I have one laptop whose sole reason for existence is to
serve as a test-bed for my hopefully educational experiments.
My torture test is up to a dozen Debian installs per week.
On related issue I've already been asked "Out of pure
curiosity, why this machine to be "chastened" in this way?" :)
Debian Installer documentation does not begin to cover many
of my "what if...." questions.
[nor would I expect it to ;]
I had a germ of a possible idea that possibly might make it
into a very personalized preseed.cfg [enough qualifiers there?].
So I decided to test feasibility manually. Initially I gave
it a 30-40% probability of success. I got an unanticipated
*MODE* of failure.
To be feasible, my eventual goal would require manual
partitioning with:
1. NO swap partition
2. Each successive install would be to a LOGICAL partition:
a. of nGB
b. at high end of available disk space
The outline of my test procedure would be [after deleting
existing partitions] to do multiple installs with:
a. no SWAP partition
b. one 20GB ext3 logical partition mounted at / at
high end existing disk space
c. at "Software selection" menu chose none of
checkable boxes
d. after re-boot do "apt-get install" of gdm, gedit,
and gparted
e. reboot and see if all works
e. repeat
Success rate ~ 50%
Reproducibility - Lousy
1st trial, 1st install, 1st try
no swap, after "su & password" attempted "apt-get
install gdm3 gedit gparted"
result - massive crash
as there had been warning message of strangeness possible
without SWAP, not surprised
1st trial, 1st install, 2nd try
no swap, after "su & password" did:
"apt-get install gdm3"
"apt-get install gedit"
"apt-get install gparted"
result - success
1st trial, 2nd install
many error messages implying defective DVD
examining hard disk with live edition of Gparted - 2nd
partition much smaller than first
deleted all partitions
2nd trial, 1st install
no swap, after "su & password" did:
"apt-get install gdm3"
"apt-get install gedit"
"apt-get install gparted"
result - success
2nd trial, 2nd install
no swap, after "su & password" did:
"apt-get install gdm3"
"apt-get install gedit"
"apt-get install gparted"
result - success
3rd trial, 1st install
no swap, after "su & password" attempted "apt-get
install gdm3 gedit gparted"
result - success
I do not have enough for a formal bug report.
Do I have enough to justify ME spending time to get
reproducible results?
Are there suggestions of permutations I should attempt?
What/how capture relevant info?
Comments please.
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