Bug#80325: Re: Bug#80325: how compact, vanilla and fdisk see the partition table

2001-01-08 Thread Thomas Blankenhorn
Hi Chris, > I also dont understand everything you said: >> ... The difference is that 'compact' ignores some Linux >> partitions on the extended partition. > Are You sure? Yes I am. But maybe I should have put it a little more precisely in my previous post. When I invoke 'view partition table'

Bug#80325: how compact, vanilla and fdisk see the partition table

2001-01-03 Thread Thomas Blankenhorn
Hi Adam, I have checked the kernel flavor of my boot floppies. It was 'vanilla', as you probably expected. Since you indicated that the kernel flavor might make a difference, I also tried the root.bin and rescue.bin floppies of the 'compact' flavor, which is the only alternative that makes sens

Bug#80325: Installer misreports partition numbers

2000-12-22 Thread Thomas Blankenhorn
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.17 Severity: grave I was trying to install Debian 2.2r2 (downloaded official ISO image) on a machine on a 4GB SCSI disk (IBM) where the following operating systems were already installed: Red Hat 7.0, Free BSD 4.1 and OpenStep 4.2. I was planning to replace Red