Pegasos machine, so I'm just repeating what I read by
> Googling, but I do have a number of PowerPC Macs running Debian and I
> know they don't use MBR partitioning, so my interest was piqued.
>
> Rick
>
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Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.44
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
This wish concerns how hard disks are prepared for an installation. The expert
user interface should be kept basically the same, but the install program
should use something like blkid to determine what is
already on preexist
erred
UUID (or if you are a Cylon who carries such data effortlessly in your
internal memory banks.)
Otherwise, you can mount each of the partitions that contain an
alternative OS and edit the new UUID into the older versions of
/etc/fstab. Or mount one of the older OS partitions (on /mnt
On 20101221_040215, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon
> wrote:
> > On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Debian Installer insists on re
he
developers who insist on using UUIDs.
>
> >From what I've heard, the Ubuntu installer has the same problem,
> and it can ruin a functioning Debian system too. Of course, that's
> not something the Debian installer team can do anything about.
> That's outside
.
>
I have a copy of lenny *businesscard* that I downloaded on
20090906. It offers to stable, testing, or unstable, just as you
describe. I haven't been following this thread, but your statement
caught my eye. This datum might help you sort out how you got to
where you are.
HTH
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I am using beta 4 net install to install Sarge.
In two places I was confused by the screen prompts. What they
say could be said better, I think.
1. Concerning GRUB, the user is given three choises:
There is no indication that LILO is a supp
sive is PC. PC is good.
Just my 2cents.
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Package: install
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-10-13
Followup-For: Bug #215620
Sebastian's correction to my work fixed the problem that I reported.
I still have problem with my apt-proxy, but that is not the issue in
this bug report. Please close the bug, I don't know how to.
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Version: 8-Oct-03 download netinstall img (not installed)
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I am attempting to point netinstall to my apt-proxy. I've gotten help from
Chris Halls about what I should type, but his instructions didn't work.
I tried plausible modifications of his instructions, also d
he string that you want to have returned by hostname:"
and
"Enter the host name for this computer:"
I prefer the latter; the former is needlessly verbose.
"Enter your hostname:"
is simply wrong.
But this is just the personal opinion of one native speaker of Americ
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