On Sunday 20 March 2016 22:00:01 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 20 Mar 2016 at 11:54:20 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:21:58 +0000 > > > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 18 March 2016 20:49:55 David Wright wrote: > > > > It's far more likely that you forgot to format the partition, if > > > > that's indeed what you wanted to do. > > > > > > No. I checked and double checked that the partitions on the disk > > > which I wanted to use for installation were all marked with the F for > > > format, and that nothing on the disk it had been told to leave alone > > > had an F. It kept wanting to format the spare disk's swap, which I > > > did not want. > > > > Why not? You wanted to carry over the swap created by a previous > > installation? > > Neither grub nor the installer handle partition labels very well. > If you've labelled your swap partition, letting the installer > loose on it means you have to restore the label each time. > > The d-i does want to format it, and it's fairly insistent that it at > least be given one to use, but it can be dissuaded from both.
It had one - on sda. It wanted the one on sdb as well. I wanted the one on sdb left alone. I got what I wanted when I insisted, and the resultant installation was quite happy just using the one disk. And the swap partition on sdb kept its UUID intact. So all is well that ends well. Lisi > The documentation also tells you not to > # mkswap -L abcd00 /dev/sdz9 > # swapon /dev/sdz9 > after the partitioner has run but before the base installation, but > I've had no problems doing that in the past. (Remember installing > linux on a Texas Travelmate with 8MB memory...) > > All this may be different for people encrypting swap or using > containers etc. > > Cheers, > David.
