Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-13 Thread Ben Hildred
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:35:19AM -0700, Ben Hildred wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Cyril Brulebois <[1]k...@debian.org > > > >wrote: > > > > Nicholas D Steeves <[2]nstee...@gmail.com>

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:35:19AM -0700, Ben Hildred wrote: >On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Cyril Brulebois <[1]k...@debian.org> >wrote: > > Nicholas D Steeves <[2]nstee...@gmail.com> (2017-11-10): > > 1) get a list of disks > > 2) identify the disk used by the

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-13 Thread Nicholas Steeves
Hi Kibi, I see Ben Hildred send a reply before I finished this draft :-) I'll reply to it separately. On 10 November 2017 at 14:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Nicholas D Steeves (2017-11-10): >> 1) get a list of disks >> 2) identify the disk used by the

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-13 Thread Ben Hildred
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Nicholas D Steeves (2017-11-10): > > 1) get a list of disks > > 2) identify the disk used by the installer > > 3) exclude the disk found at #2 > > How do you do 2? > > Last I touched this, nothing

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Nicholas D Steeves (2017-11-10): > 1) get a list of disks > 2) identify the disk used by the installer > 3) exclude the disk found at #2 How do you do 2? Last I touched this, nothing obvious appeared in d-i to know what the installer was booted from. ISTR having suggested at

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 12:32 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:19:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This is true, but I don't think it's a good reason not to implement a > > mostly-reliable heuristic. > > > > If there are multiple disks, there are usually going to be

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-10 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:32:59PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:19:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This is true, but I don't think it's a good reason not to implement a > > mostly-reliable heuristic. > > > > If there are multiple disks, there are usually going

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:19:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is true, but I don't think it's a good reason not to implement a > mostly-reliable heuristic. > > If there are multiple disks, there are usually going to be just 2 of > them, one of which contains the installer. In any

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 10:10 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:56:31PM +0100, Michael Kesper wrote: > > Yes sure but why can't I correct it after the fact? > > Even "rescanning disks" does not let you chose any other disks. > > > > Is there a way of chosing "first

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:56:31PM +0100, Michael Kesper wrote: > Yes sure but why can't I correct it after the fact? > Even "rescanning disks" does not let you chose any other disks. > > Is there a way of chosing "first internal disk" then? > Imagine I want to create one installation medium for

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-07 Thread Michael Kesper
Dear Cyril, On 07.11.2017 08:12, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Kesper (2017-11-06): >> I think this bug is specific to partman-auto. >> Partman should allow rescanning devices and recognize NVMe devices when >> preconfigured with /dev/sda. >> Alternatively, there

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Michael, Michael Kesper (2017-11-06): > I think this bug is specific to partman-auto. > Partman should allow rescanning devices and recognize NVMe devices when > preconfigured with /dev/sda. > Alternatively, there should be an installation target "largest disk" or >

Processed: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 partman-auto Bug #878722 [debian-installer] Preseeding: Unable to correct partitioning manually if preseed fails Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'partman-auto'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #878722 to the same values

bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

2017-11-06 Thread Michael Kesper
control: reassign -1 partman-auto Dear maintainers, I think this bug is specific to partman-auto. Partman should allow rescanning devices and recognize NVMe devices when preconfigured with /dev/sda. Alternatively, there should be an installation target "largest disk" or something similar. Best