setup-storage and preserving partitions

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hello!
> 
> I re-tested with the various incorrect inputs from last week. Most of
> the situations are now handled gracefully; the error messages make
> sense. There is still one case which causes the same trouble as before:
> 
> When I have the extended partition (3 in my disk layout) in the list of
> partitions to be preserved, setup-storage crashes with:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value $p in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Init.pm line 266.
> Can't preserve /dev/hda because it is not defined in the current config
> 
> I think this may be a common situation which could be handled better
> (perhaps suggesting the user to remove the extended partition from the
> preserve list).
> 

Yes, this is exactly what setup-storage should now be telling you. Could you
give 3.4~beta1+experimental31 another try to see whether everything's fine now?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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