Hi,
Holger Wansing wrote (Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:40:38 +0200):
> Hi,
>
> Thorsten Glaser wrote (Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:53:52 +
> (UTC)):
> > Holger Wansing dixit:
> >
> > >>Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
> > >>where the size is entered? Screen space should
Hi,
Thorsten Glaser wrote (Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:53:52 + (UTC)):
> Holger Wansing dixit:
>
> >>Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
> >>where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
> >
> >Yes, I already thought about if changing the template would ma
Hi,
Am 13. August 2023 10:46:50 MESZ schrieb Richard Lewis
:
>Holger Wansing writes:
>
> (Terabytes), 10TiB (Tebibytes). The default unit is Megabytes.
> ^^
>
>I wonder if this last word is a typo and should say Gigabytes? (if not
>plea
Holger Wansing writes:
> Justin B Rye wrote (Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:04:09
> +0100):
>> Holger Wansing wrote:
>> > Thorsten Glaser :
>> >> Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
>> >> where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
>> [...]
>> > CC'ing debian-
Hi,
Justin B Rye wrote (Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:04:09
+0100):
> Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Thorsten Glaser :
> >> Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
> >> where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
> [...]
> > CC'ing debian-l10n-english for template revi
Holger Wansing dixit:
>>Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
>>where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
>
>Yes, I already thought about if changing the template would make sense here.
Thanks!
Could we also get the size output in both formats? I rea
Holger Wansing wrote:
> Thorsten Glaser :
>> Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
>> where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
[...]
> CC'ing debian-l10n-english for template review (three identical additions
> in two packages).
[...]
> Hint: "max" c
Hi,
Am 26. Juli 2023 23:19:31 MESZ schrieb Thorsten Glaser :
>
>Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
>where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
Yes, I already thought about if changing the template would make sense here.
That would require synchr
reopen 684128
retitle 684128 src:debian-installer: show ISO/IEC 60027-2 units (as well); show
valid suffixes
found 684128 226
thanks
Holger Wansing dixit:
>So I guess it works as it should.
>
>The (visual) output is still in MB / GB, apart from this a see no issue.
Hrm, the output being only in
Thorsten Glaser wrote (Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:15:04 + (UTC)):
> why is this bug still unfixed?
>
> In bookworm d-i, entering 512 MiB seems to be using something
> entirely different, and 512 Mi gives an error “invalid size”.
>
> This still makes d-i unsuitable for most partitioning.
With a 1
Cyril Brulebois dixit:
>https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/20230516.en.html
>documents a fix for #913431, which is a duplicate of this bug report.
Huh.
>> In bookworm d-i, entering 512 MiB seems to be using something
>> entirely different
>
>“Something entirely different” co
Control: notfound -1 226
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Hi,
Thorsten Glaser (2023-07-25):
> why is this bug still unfixed?
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/20230516.en.html
documents a fix for #913431, which is a duplicate of this bug report.
Closing this one accordingly.
> In b
found 684128 226
thanks
Hi,
why is this bug still unfixed?
In bookworm d-i, entering 512 MiB seems to be using something
entirely different, and 512 Mi gives an error “invalid size”.
This still makes d-i unsuitable for most partitioning.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a bett
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> This issue will have to be worked on for jessie, not for
> wheezy. Hopefully someone will come with a patch (I somehow doubt it
> as I think that only incredibly picky people really do care about
> differencesbetween MB and MiB..but, who knows?).
The difference betwe
reassign 684128 partman-partitioning
thanks
Quoting Ian Bruce (ian_br...@fastmail.net):
> Possible solutions:
>
> 1 - AT AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM: at the point where the use of metric
> suffixes is suggested, explain that these really are decimal, so that
> people who want the binary values know that
Package: src:debian-installer
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
The version 6.0 installer invites users to specify the sizes of disk
partitions and volumes in units of "K", "M", "G", and "T". Only later do
they find out that what is meant by this is the politically-correct
decimal units 10^3, 10^6, 10
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