On 08/11/2018 07:52 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carl-Valentin Schmitt <cv.schm...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Apparently the installer compels each time before Installation to delete >> hard disk too slowly. > >> It should be optional to delete (slowly) the harddisk or to format >> harddisk quickly. > >> In 9.5 installer there is no option for formatting without deleting. > > You can just cancel that step and move on. (But I am also dubious of its > utility in most situations, and wish it weren't the default or that at > least one was given a prompt first.) > > I think a better place to file this issue is as a bug report against > debian-installer (and I suspect there may already be one). > A previous iteration on this was https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=722898
Cheers, Julien