setup-storage does not preserve my partitions

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]
>
> Now sda1 & sda2 are preserved, but setup-storage fails when building the  
> ext3 filesystem on /boot (debug log is on  
> http://paste.debian.net/19133/). This is weird, as running 'mkfs.ext3  
> /dev/sda3' works fine from the shell just after installation has stopped.

Oh no, seems we need to move around the calls to udevsettle :-( I'll try to work
out a patch later on this week; meanwhile: retrying might just work in this
case... Could you indeed retry for me to see how high up this must be put in
this week's priority list?

>>
>> 2. There was a bug in setup-storage (just reported as #501772), which your
>> report made visible (thanks!!): It should not have destroyed your partitions,
>> but instead have failed because your preserve_always specification and the
>> disk_config wouldn't have been feasible. 
>>
>> Given the corrected disk_config things should be fine even with the current
>> setup-storage version, but you might also want to try the experimental packages
>> from http://fai.alioth.debian.org, which include a fix for #501772.
>>
>>   
>
> How am I supposed to use this url? adding it to sources.list doesn't  
> work, as there is no Packages.gz file; shall I just use dpkg?
>

Yes, dpkg is the way to go. If you have one, you might want to put them in your
local package repository; we're working on an apt-get'able repository for these
experimental packages (@Thomas: hint ... :-) ).

Best,
Michael

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/attachments/20081013/01a7f2b0/attachment.bin