Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release...
I orginally installed 8.2 on my IBM Thinkpad A20m, then upgraded to 9.0, then to 9.1.... Lots of folk have stated that I should have *installed* instead... well... install kinda sucks too... Today, I received my new 40G HD, and not wanting to risk losing data, I connected the new drive via a USB box... Still on 8.2->9.0->9.1, I created the following partitions on the new drive: Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38154 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Blocks Id System As To become /dev/sda1 * 511984 83 Linux /91 / /dev/sda2 38557696 5 Extended /dev/sda5 4095984 83 Linux /91/usr /usr /dev/sda6 511984 83 Linux /91/var /var /dev/sda7 1023984 82 Linux swap /dev/sda8 1023984 83 Linux /tmp /tmp /dev/sda9 511984 83 Linux /x alt / /dev/sda10 4095984 83 Linux /x/usr alt /usr /dev/sda11 511984 83 Linux /x/var alt /var /dev/sda12 5119984 83 Linux /home /home /dev/sda13 5119984 83 Linux /usr/local /usr/local /dev/sda14 6143984 83 Linux /ISO /ISO /dev/sda15 10397680 83 Linux /var/www /var/www and copied most of my data over from the old 12G HD with the following partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 12.0 GB, 12068904960 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1559 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device Boot Blocks Id System Was To become /dev/hda1 * 597208 83 Linux / /old /dev/hda2 11188800 5 Extended /dev/hda5 975208 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 3628768 83 Linux /usr /old/usr /dev/hda7 1527088 83 Linux /var /old/var /dev/hda8 5057608 83 Linux /home /old/home Note that the swap partitions are on the 40G partition 7 (4th) and 12G partition 5 (2nd)... Then, I physically swapped the old 12G and new 40G HDs... Powered up, inserted CD1 and started the install with F1->expert... Got to the partitioning step and... BUG: sda7 (now hda7) swap claims to be a Linux partition BUG: sda7 (now hda7) shows it will be mounted as /var BUG: sda5 (now hda5) claims to be a SWAP partition BUG: old hda5 (now sda5) swap claims to be a Linux partition BUG: old hda7 (now sda7) claims to be a SWAP partition Clearly a case of either NOT reading the partition tables or not paying attention to which is which... In expert mode, I found no way to unmount the SWAP=/var partition... Yup "/var" over the "green" partition... Next, I disconnected the external USB 12G HD and restarted the install using the default (Enter) mode... Here, got the same problem; but at least I was able to get around it... otherwise, I would have had to switch the drives back. Visually, both partitioning tools appeared identical, they reported similar erroneous partitions; but the normal mode was more capable than the expert mode... I now have the space needed to test 9.2 betas (if I can find time); but not sure I want to risk my hardwre by swapping disks for _this_ set of problems...
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
