feedback: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3

2012-10-24 Thread Lachlan
hey installer team, i just want to drop a quick thanks to you and say that this installer is the best release i've used in years. I reinstalled a laptop and server using the graphical and text installer for each. I tried to break it in random ways and reinstalled a couple of times on each to

Bug#637873: Failed kernel install does not allow re-select of kernel, Presented kernel options do not match installable options

2011-08-15 Thread Don Lachlan
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Virtual CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/20110814-1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso Date: 20110811.1800 EDT Machine: VirtualBox (Ubuntu 10.04) Processor: Intel Pentium M processor 1.60GHz Memory:

Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails

2010-06-22 Thread Lachlan
On 22 June 2010 16:49, Michael Tsang mikl...@gmail.com wrote: What is the output of VT 4? that would be in /var/log/syslog? i've found an earlier netinstall cd and that worked correctly. so i'll check it out after the install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails

2010-06-22 Thread Lachlan
nano /var/log/syslog partman:mkfs.ext4: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version 'BLKID_2.17' not found (required by mkfs.ext4) that seems to be the error. it looks like it creates swap no problems though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails

2010-06-22 Thread Lachlan
thanks for helping me out. i'll be okay from here. Close this bug On 22 June 2010 18:55, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: [Lachlan] nano /var/log/syslog partman:mkfs.ext4: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version 'BLKID_2.17' not found (required by mkfs.ext4) This is bug #583551 hopefully

Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails

2010-06-21 Thread Lachlan
Package: debian-installer Version: testing attempting to install debian testing from weekly images (tried cd1 and netinstall images) create partitions for root home and swap when it goes to write these changes to disk i get the error: failed to create a file system this happens no

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-14 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Lennart Sorensen wrote: The boot files go to /boot. There is no question to ask about it. Well, the question I wanted it to ask was which partition should /boot go onto? AFAI recall that question wasn't asked. I had two other ext2 partitions, so I was just surprised that the command to format

Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Package: Linux i386 V3.1 r1 Boot method: CD Image version: debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso Downloaded from: Debian mirror ftp.iinet.net.au Date: 2006-02-21 10:00 am Machine: Homebuilt Processor: Intel 800 mhz Memory: 384 meg Partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 20.2GB /dev/hda1 12.0GB fat32 Windows 98

Re: Installer problem report (dual boot loadlin)

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 23:17, Lachlan Patrick wrote: With the installer I reformatted /dev/hda6 as format ext3, then the installer automatically put the root/kernal 2.4.27 files onto that partition (without asking me, which was fine because that was what I wanted, but also

Bug#280552: new install

2004-11-09 Thread Lachlan Simpson
if the options I wanted were in there - I do more than this and am really busy at the moment, so I wanted it to go as quickly as possiblebtw - thanks for the great software, I really love you ppl, yr software, and yr social contract --- Lachlan Simpson, National Database IT Support Officer