reassign 254727 partman retitle 254727 Some usability comments on auto partitioning (Beta 4) thanks
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 18:18, Frank Mulder wrote: > The initial boot didn't work. The installation manual said that I had to > type this in lilo.conf: > [...] > It said that a 'root=' line would be ignored. But when I booted, it said > that it couldn't open the root file system. I found that I had to append > 'root=/dev/ram' before booting the image; this worked well. I'll fix that in the manual. > I was also not really happy with the automatic partioning. I already had > some partions, but I wanted to let the installer partition the drive > automatically, so delete the partitions and let the installer partition the > free space. However, I couldn't delete the partition with the downloaded > cd-image (of course). I deleted the other partitions, but the installer > didn't use the space after the cd-image (where formerly my swap partition > resided). Instead, it created a swap partition in the free space _before_ > the partition with the cd-image. I still wanted to use the space after it, > so I created a swap partition in that space and let the installer try it > again. But it made a second swap partition! That's why I'm not really happy > with it... I've noticed the same behavior. Also (as you noticed as well), if there already is a swap partition on the drive to begin with, automatic partitioning will still create a new swap partition instead of using the existing one. Reassigning this report to partman. > The bootloader installed well, but it didn't include Windows NT on my first > disk (not that I use it very often... :) ). I had to do this manually. > Maybe this is because I had LILO before I started with the installation, > which resided before the WinNT bootloader, so that the installer couldn't > recognize it. This is a known error for Beta4 for NTFS partitions; fixed in more recent versions. Thank you for your report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
