Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 08/11/2018 01:56 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Why I care at all: In the past, I used to test the Debian installer on > my main computer as it was the only one with up to date hardware, and I > had on it my working OS and a spare installation, and one or two DI > test installations. I found it

Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Am Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:00:31 -0400 schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:08:52AM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > > Am Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:14:15 -0400 > > schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > > > > > [...] > > > Well 99.9%

Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:08:52AM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Am Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:14:15 -0400 > schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > > > [...] > > Well 99.9% of installs don't have another linux on the system, >^ > Interesting. How did you get that

Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 08/10/2018 10:08 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Am Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:14:15 -0400 > schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > >> [...] >> Well 99.9% of installs don't have another linux on the system, >^ > Interesting. How did you get that figure? It's most

Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Am Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:14:15 -0400 schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > [...] > Well 99.9% of installs don't have another linux on the system, ^ Interesting. How did you get that figure? Regards, Herbert

Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:37:15PM +0200, John Landmesser wrote: > Package: debian-installer > > > is there a reason why the installer defaults to format given swap partition? > > I now know that you can opt out to format swap, but i don't understand that > formatting swap is default! > > I

Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-09 Thread John Landmesser
Package: debian-installer is there a reason why the installer defaults to format given swap partition? I now know that you can opt out to format swap, but i don't understand that formatting swap is default! I had several Linux on same PC and after installing aditional debian, the other