On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Miernik wrote: > During installing sarge with images from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/2.6/ > (booting installation from GRUB), during the question: > > [!!] Partition disks > > it says: > > The minimum size you can use is 512.0 B or 0% and the maximum size is > 5.7 GB. > > New partition size: > > and I entered 511705088 B > > It said: > > [!] Partition disks > Too large size
The 'B' suffix unfortunately doesn't do what you expect, and your input was non-intuitively interpreted as 511705088 megabytes. I've committed a patch to fix this, for post-lenny. > Besides that, the dialog doesn't say does it interpret kB, MB and GB as > powers of 1000 or 1024. It should clearly mention how will it interpret > these. Best if it would say that kB, MB and GB will mean powers of 1000, > and kiB, MiB and GiB will mean powers of 1024. This lies somewhere in the domain of #307220/#471323, so we'll track it over there. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
