Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:25 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #415830
has caused the Debian Bug report #415830,
regarding Partition sizes not sufficient on guided setup
to be marked as done.
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415830: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415830
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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD Image
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 21 Maart 2007 - 18:00 GMT+1
Machine: VMWare (5.5.3 build-34685) Virtual Machine
Processor: N/A
Memory: 256 Mb
Partitions:
alexan...@test:~$ df -Tl
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Avail Use% Mounted
/dev/sda1 ext3 2395540 2294364 0 100% /
tmpfs tmpfs 63512 0 63512 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10240 56 10184 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 63512 0 63512 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 ext3 5534416 142236 511048 3% /home
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [E]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Yesterday I wanted a quick try of Etch, so I created a VMWare machine.
On the installer I choose to use guided partitioning, a separate home
partition and let the installer automatically setup the partition
layout on my 8,6Gb HDD. A few steps later in the installation process,
I choose to install only the Desktop Environment & Base System. There
was no error or warning during the installation whatsoever.
However, on the first boot when GDM loaded and I provided my user
details to start Gnome, an error message that stated that my gnome
session had crashed popped up. Switching to console provided me with a
quite conclusive reason why this happened, 0% free space on my root
partition. Obviously I'd manually enter (and double-check) my
partition layout on a production system, but many users aren't
comfortable with manually editing partition tables.
I don't think the installer should allow this situation to happen, or
should at least provide a warning that the partition layout doesn't
provide enough space for the current package installation options.
With kind regards,
Alexander van der Mey
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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