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

Frans Pop 292111@bugs.debian.org, 292111@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:27:11 +0100


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.

Please let us know the results.

Cheers,
FJP