Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:24:55PM +1100, Lachlan Patrick wrote: > Well, the question I wanted it to ask was "which partition > should /boot go onto?" AFAI recall that question wasn't > asked. I had two other ext2 partitions, so I was just > surprised that the command to format /dev/hda6 was also >

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-14 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > The boot files go to /boot. There is no question to ask about it. Well, the question I wanted it to ask was "which partition should /boot go onto?" AFAI recall that question wasn't asked. I had two other ext2 partitions, so I was just surprised that the command to format

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:50:07PM +1100, Lachlan Patrick wrote: > Sorry if this isn't the right forum to suggest installer > UI improvements, but... > > I was just reporting one [fairly newbie] user's surprise > that it went ahead and starting copying files without > asking "now copy boot files t

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 05:50, Lachlan Patrick wrote: > > Well, the installer _has_ to install the kernel and initrd in /boot, > > so if you don't create a separate /boot partition it will indeed put > > them in the partition that holds root. > > Sorry if this isn't the right forum to suggest inst

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 23:17, Lachlan Patrick wrote: >> With the installer I reformatted /dev/hda6 as format ext3, >> then the installer automatically put the root/kernal 2.4.27 >> files onto that partition (without asking me, which was fine >> because that was what I wanted, bu

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 13 March 2006 23:17, Lachlan Patrick wrote: > With the installer I reformatted /dev/hda6 as format ext3, > then the installer automatically put the root/kernal 2.4.27 > files onto that partition (without asking me, which was fine > because that was what I wanted, but also annoying that it

Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Package: Linux i386 V3.1 r1 Boot method: CD Image version: debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso Downloaded from: Debian mirror ftp.iinet.net.au Date: 2006-02-21 10:00 am Machine: Homebuilt Processor: Intel 800 mhz Memory: 384 meg Partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 20.2GB /dev/hda1 12.0GB fat32 Windows 98 boo