On Sunday 20 March 2016 19:15:51 Brian wrote: > Being under pressure to complete the task set doesn't lend itself to > considered action and burning a CD can be fraught.
Granted. > The quality of the > disk, the burning and the accuracy of reading the burnt disk are things > to take into account. I'd have booted the installer from something > completely different (such as a USB stick) to get a better picture of > the situation. A repeat performance would have justified alarm bells > ringing. > > Success eventually came; probably because the writing and reading > processes of the CD-ROM acted correctly. Coming after using GParted was > likely a coincidence; other changes might have been factors. Again, Granted. > There is > nothing to underpin the advice not to use d-i's partitioning methods. > (As an aside, d-i has fdisk; there was no need to use GParted). I have always so far used d-i's partitioner. I wasn't really meaning that as permanent standing advice. But there may have been an odd bug in that version of the Jessie d-i. If you diagnose PEBKAC I shall not disagree. I shall probably use the d-i partitioner next time myself! Lisi
