Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:37:33AM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Oh right - I used the original partitionning I guess. I assumed it was > MBR. Certainly my thinkpad came with windows 7 64bit preinstalled and uses a DOS partition table, not GPT. I suspect if it had come with Windows 8 64bit, it

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-01 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2014-01-01 14:18:21, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Do you agree that this bug can be closed now? Sure yes. I was hoping to improve the process a little, but the challenge seems to be beyond my patience in dealing with multiple packages... Besides, there are significant problems related to the way

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 01.01.2014 18:56, Antoine Beaupré wrote: In my days, you had to to move bits around with a magnet to resize FAT12 partitions and NTFS was satan! You kids have it t easy. ;) Oh yeah, the good old days... ;) Yes, there was a firmware folder, it only contained a .deb of linux-firmware

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-01 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2014-01-01 05:05:18, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > On 31.12.2013 15:50, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> (That resize, btw, was quite scary - I am not sure I did it right. First >> off it was very fast, so I suspect only the boundaries of the filesystem >> were changed, without telling NTFS. Then when we

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 31.12.2013 16:23, Luca Capello wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:50:39 +0100, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On 2013-12-31 05:45:01, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Installing on UEFI firmware is supported, but is a little bit tricky, see for example [1]. Particularly you need a GPT partitioned hard disk

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2013-12-31 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2013-12-31 10:23:18, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there! > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:50:39 +0100, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> On 2013-12-31 05:45:01, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> Yeah... I struggled with that before, and I *was* able to make it work, >> but since it wasn't obvious this was necessary *du

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2013-12-31 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:50:39 +0100, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2013-12-31 05:45:01, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> Installing on UEFI firmware is supported, but is a little bit tricky, >> see for example [1]. Particularly you need a GPT partitioned hard disk >> with two additional partit

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2013-12-31 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2013-12-31 05:45:01, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi anarcat, Hi Andreas! > Installing on UEFI firmware is supported, but is a little bit tricky, > see for example [1]. Particularly you need a GPT partitioned hard disk > with two additional partitions, one EFI partition marked with the 'boot'

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2013-12-31 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi anarcat, On 31.12.2013 05:00, anarcat wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > Install went generally well and fast. There was a problem installing > the boot loader during the install, and although I didn't investigate > during the install, when I rebooted, grub was not installed in the > MBR and I wa

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2013-12-30 Thread anarcat
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.49 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: Live USB stick Image version: Some image i built from the live-build project Date: 2013-12-30 Machine: IBM Thinkpad E431 Partitions: Sys. fich.