Hi all, my name is Franco Vecchiato, I work as system manager at Provincia di Rovigo in Rovigo, Italy. I installed Sarge on some servers at work, and I found a missing characteristic (in my opinion) in Sarge installer by comparison with the previous installer: the ability to format partitions with bad blocks check.
I'm also testing the new Etch installer (beta 2) at home, I downloaded the last floppy releases from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/beta2/images/floppy/ but this characteristic is still not available. I also read the TODO file in the documentation, but I found nothing about this issue. It is **very** important, in my opinion, to be able to check bad blocks during (at least) the first installation of a server. I think this could be accomplished, in the new Etch installer, with a little modification in the submenu voice "Format the partition" inside the "Partition disks" voice: till now the choices were two, format or keep the data of the partition. It could only be added the choice "format with bad blocks check", and these three values could be available by opening a new submenu when entering the voice "Format the partition" (till now, if you press enter on that voice you can only change between "format" and "keep existing data" values, without opening new submenus). The default choices should remain exactly the same we have now. Do you think this improvement should be accomplished in the new Etch installer? Greetings Franco Vecchiato -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
