On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, February 03, 2015 05:01:46 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[cut] > > My point in all this is that the installer WILL NOT ALLOW you, in any mode, > to > just format and label a partition and use it. Try to skip the partitioner and > go on to the next step it will NOT allow. The only way you can get past that > is to allow it to write a broken partition table So ATM, I have no clue if > this drive is partition synchronized so that the 2 partitioms on it, / & > swap, > are in fact sector aligned. OK. For clarity, I'm going to go through this on an existing VM I have (so already partitioned). I am using the Debian Wheezy 7.8.0 Net Install CD from here: https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst I boot from the CD (ISO) and, at the boot prompt, select "Install" I walk through the language selection and wait for "Loading Additional Components". Networking auto configures and I leave the hostname and domain at default. I leave the root password blank and enter details for a new user. At this point, we get to the dialog marked "Partition disks". My options here are "Guided - use entire disk", "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM", "Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM" and "Manual". I choose *"Manual"*. This takes me into the partitioner itself. There are four menu options at the top ("Guided partitioning", "Configure software RAID", "Configure the Logical Volume Manager", "Configure encrypted volumes"), a blank line and then the layout of my existing disks. In my case, it starts with a line for the disk "SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda) - 8.6 GB ATA VBOX HARDDISK", then a line for each of the partitions "#1 primary 8.2 GB B ext4", "#5 logical 401.6 MB F swap swap" etc. And finally, there are two "exit" actions: "Undo changes to the partitions" and "Finish partitioning and write changes to the disk". At this point, the installer has made no changes to the existing partitions. I move the red-bar cursor down to the line starting "#1 primary" and press enter, as that is the partition where I wish to install Debian. I now get a dialog starting "You are editing partition #1 of SCSI3 ...". Here, my options are "Use as: do not use", "Bootable flag: on", "Resize the partition (currently 8.2GB)" and so on. I move the cursor to "Use as: do no use" (well, it's already there) and press enter. I am taken to a selection dialog where I can choose the file system to put on partition #1. For the sake of argument, I select the top entry "Ext4 journaling file system". This takes me back to the previous level, but now I have extra options. The "Use as:" line now shows the partition will become an Ext4 file system and below that are the options "Format the partition: no, keep existing data" (if the installer determines that the partition is blank, this may read "yes, format it"), "Mount point: none", "Mount options: defaults" and "Bootable flag: on". As I am using a single partition, I scroll down to "Mount point: none", press enter and from the selection dialog, choose "/ - the root file system". Finally, I scroll down to "Done setting up the partition" and press enter. So, now I'm back at the top level of the partitioner. The layout of my disk is shown again. This time, the last column of the table of partitions shows that partition #1 will be used as "/", and partition #5 will be used as "swap". If I now wanted to proceed with installation I would scroll down to "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk". This would *NOT ALTER THE PARTITION TABLE*, it would merely format the partitions (#1 would me made ext4 and #5 would be re-initialised as swap). Installation would then proceed. Now, IF you've been following that procedure AND your installer isn't behaving in the same manner, then hit a bug in the installer that hasn't been spotted in about 18 months of regular use by many people. > > What is very discouraging in all this is that to a person, you _al_l believe > the installer can do no wrong, AND its onvious that this list is not in any > way connected to the people that build the install, so you are not telling > the > install image people there is a problem with how it handles these new 4k > sector disks. > > So the problem is not going to get fixed due to a lack of communication. Your > bug tracker isn't accessible to me as I don't even have incoming mail setup > such that I could confirm the subscription I'd need to file the bug. Chicken > v > egg. You could always create an account with any of the free webmail providers (gmail, yahoo, outlook etc) and use that. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502040957.50087. >
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