You sent a very usefull installation report, thank you. On 27.V.2004 Pete Shinners wrote: > > First, I spent a few times going into the partion tool. Each time > starting I got a long pause on the "partition scan". Checking with the > other terminals I noticed it was scanning partitions on > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. This part of the scan took a long time. I would > recommend not scanning anything under /dev/cdroms when looking for drive > partitions.
Can you remember the title of the progress bar. Was it "Scanning disks..." or "Detecting file systems..."? How you decided that the partitioner scanned /dev/cdroms/cdrom0? There is a (not so long) pause on "Detecting file systems..." and it is unavoidable but I hope that the partitioner doesn't try to detect CDROM devices. Did you see the CDROM as a device in the main partitioning dialog? > The little symbols on the partition screen are a bit confusing. Read the > help for them, but still never learned what the lightning bolt was for > (boot?). A legend of the symbols and their meanings directly on the > partition page would be helpful. I think that there is already a description of the lightning bolt in the help. A legend directly on the partition page seams impossible as it has to stay on top of the screen (due to limitation of the debconf interface that d-i uses) and as a result the partition table will be invisible. > I have two existing EXT3 partitions that I wanted to mount under /home > and /xandros. (you can see from my current partion mount list they are > working.) But I could not get them mounted with the partioner tool. Each > one gave me the following error, "This ext2 filesystem has a rather > strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)." This will be fixed. > My last note here is just an observation. Since I was working with > existing partitions a bit, I was wondering If there was any difference > between the top level "Do not use this partition" option, or just > setting the mount point to "no mount point". I ended up going with the > "The do not use...", but was wondering if there was a difference. You reported a usability problem of the installer. Another problem is that when the method is "do not use" the user is not allowed to set a mount point and it is not obvious that the method should be changed in order to set mount point. > Oh, and one last thing. When booting now I get an ugly message about > problems with the partition tables not matching. This happens early in > the boot and scrolls away faster than I can really read. The error > doesn't show up in dmesg either. I haven't been getting this before, > don't know if it's a problem I had previosly and only 2.6.x kernels > detect. Or if the debian installer did something funny with the partitions? I don't know about this. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
