[Parted-maintainers] Bug#292111: installation-reports: FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE EXISTING PARTITIONS

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:27:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:36, Gene Cooperman wrote:
> > I tried to use the Debian installer with Debian testing
> > (Sarge, version of 1/17/05, rc2 release).  Unfortunately, when it
> > came to partitioning, I selected
> >   "manually partition"
> > and was presented only with the possibility of partitioning the whole
> > disk:  Maxtor 6Y160M0 (163 GB)
> > The installer knows the disk, but did not show me my existing
> >  partitions for reformatting.
> 
> People are currently working on a new version of parted that may well fix 
> your problems.
> Please try again later this week using a _daily_ netinst CD image of the 
> installer.

Heu, the above doesn't seem to fail in the diagnostic of what the new version
should be fixing though. Gene, are you sure the disk actually had a partition
table, and if so, what was it ? Also, could you see what the kernel has to say
about it, by going to console 2, and looking at /proc/partitions.

Also, what parted has to say about it directly too. Go to console 2 and type
parted, and then print, copy the info, and then quit.

Friendly,

Sven Luther