On Thursday, February 05, 2015 06:08:51 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > 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.
I have been down that graden path so many times I think I could do it in my sleep. I had that drive setup with a hair over a gig for the /boot, and all that, it did write a new table giving boot only 300 megs, and all the other partitions were either too small or way too big. File it, its a bug, a huge one IMO, you may want to take your favorite deer rifle along in case it attacks you. But why do I have to repeat what I've said all along? I have even posted the outputs obtained from other partiotioning utilites after several other installs, and they all show similar results. > > 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. > I don't do webmail. Its not open for discussion as every windows box I have been asked to service has been from a user that think aol or whatever is the cats meow, and I wind up deleting 50 or more viri and keyloggers from their boxes. 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/201502051314.56714.ghesk...@wdtv.com
