Bug 85754 - Problem hitting back to formatting screen
Summary: Problem hitting back to formatting screen
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-06 23:37 UTC by Owen Taylor
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-08-12 19:36:07 UTC
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Description Owen Taylor 2003-03-06 23:37:42 UTC
[ With the latest GinGin tree ]

I don't have an exact sequence to reproduce this, but 
it more or less went like:

 - Select automatic partioning
 - Watch it make a 36 meg /  on /hda2
 - Hit Next
 - Change my mind, hit back
 - Split 36 megs into a 20 meg /home on /hda2 and
   a 16 meg / on /hda3
 - Hit next, continue with install

At the end of the install, I ended up with:

 /hda2 formatted, label /home
 /hda3 not formatted
 
And the install on /hda2. (So no / label at all,
system didn't boot, time to reinstall)

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-03-07 19:12:03 UTC
Just curious, didnt you get a warning that 36M is not enough for '/'?


Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2003-03-07 19:32:54 UTC
Please add in the correct power of 1024 ... I meant (perhaps obviously)
gig not mem.


Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2003-03-12 17:30:34 UTC
Thanks for the clarification.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2003-03-13 21:07:23 UTC
I tried this on two machines and couldn't hit it. Can you reproduce it on
demand? I'd like to track down the problem you saw if possible.

Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2003-03-13 22:09:13 UTC
Sorry, unfortunately, the machine I was testing on is the machine I'm
typing on now, and not really up for reinstall. I didn't try to try 
to repeat the problem.

All I can suggest about reproduction is that I may have gone
more than one screen forward.... I didn't find the problem 
until the machine finished installing an hour or so later, so 
it was a bit vague at that point what I actually did.
(But I don't think it was anything _too_ weird.)

Feel feel to close if you feel that nothing useful can be done 
without more information.


Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2003-08-12 19:36:07 UTC
It seems unlikely I'm going to be able to address this w/o a reproducible test
case :(.


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