-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:14, John wrote: > I'm trying to install to a disk with existing (ext3) parititions. > I chose to use the existing partitions, to reformat them as ext3. > The format failed as the partitions have existing journals.
That should not cause the formatting to fail. I do this all the time. Could it be the failure occurs because the partitions are mounted in some way? If not please file a full installation report using [1] and attach the files syslog, messages and partman from /var/log directory (if possible). That should contain all the information we need to track down the problem. > On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the > disks to appear in the traditional place and to munge them with more > user-friendly tools such as fdisk? I'm afraid you'll have to start fdisk with /dev/discs/... > btw Is there any reason that LAN-booting expects I want to do a network > install? I could, for example, install off USB on a system that won't > boot USB. The reason is we expect 99,9% of people using the netboot boot images to install off the network :-) You could try to place the hd-image boot images instead of the netboot ones on your boot server. I think they should contain the functionality to use an iso on e.g. an usb stick. [1] http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template Cheers, FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA9skYgm/Kwh6ICoQRAsg+AJ0WijnfM6uwS5zjstF7tj+vcqvVgQCdGw9K ccMh6iMH29rVlB18acuWdU0= =cy1f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
