The Graphical Gentoo Linux Installer have some problems. erase The Logical windows ntfs partitions not selected.
You're going to have to give us a *lot* more information than that.
(In reply to comment #1) > You're going to have to give us a *lot* more information than that. > Right, but there's a report in the german part of forums.gentoo.org about a masacred ntfs partition as well. Such a problem is a reason officially to retract the release iso, imho.
Care to point me to that post (and possibly translate)? I can't fix it very well if I can't track down the problem. I'm already planning on releasing a 0.3.1 and re-rolling the LiveCD once wolf31o2 gets back from vacation.
(In reply to comment #3) > Care to point me to that post (and possibly translate)? I can't fix it very > well if I can't track down the problem. I'm already planning on releasing a > 0.3.1 and re-rolling the LiveCD once wolf31o2 gets back from vacation. This guy wrote a whole feedback
(In reply to comment #3) > Care to point me to that post (and possibly translate)? I can't fix it very > well if I can't track down the problem. I'm already planning on releasing a > 0.3.1 and re-rolling the LiveCD once wolf31o2 gets back from vacation. This guy wrote a whole feedback¹, both mentioning a couple of issues with the GLI and suggestions. I asked him to file bugs, but don't know if he did. Unfortunately he wasn't specific on the broken ntfs partition either. I'll ask him via pm to comment here. If he don't I could translate - just doesn't it make much sense imho, since I can hardly answer any questions of what he's done. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-438513-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-67.html
Running that forums topic through the google translater (it only translated the first post for some reason), it look to me like it just said that he had an unsupported partition type and warned him not to continue. It also looks like he set the partition as type NTFS but didn't format it (which is known to confuse the installer and generate the error above). If he continue from that point and messed up anything on his system, it's his own fault.
O.k., I'll translate the relevant section: -- Before I started the Gento LiveCD. I partitioned using another instelled Linux as follows: [ fstab output ] But I did not format anything, up to the NTFS partition. I wanted to leave that to the LiveCD. Reaching the partitioning dialog, the installer notifies me about a super critical error, you can read as if you should hve good connections to a data recovery center. I assumed, the installed tried to read the file system (not possible, since unformatted), but continued anyway. Nice would have been the hint, that it's not necessarily fatal and that you can ignore it, if you haven't formatted the partitions before. The partition bar shows the first partition /dev/hda1 with ID 83 (Linux) as NTFS. This may be, because I moved the NTFS partition before, using Image Magic, 110 MB "backwards". I think it's a bit unfortunate that the Installer, even though the partitions ID is 83 marks it as a broken NTFS partition. More curious is, that after this 110 MB sized partition a grey unallocated zero-sized partition is shown. The assumed device for this partition is /dev/hda . -> ignored. -- Hope my broken translation suffices. In his second post he points out that the ntfs partition in fact is broken afterwards.
I've put a few fixes in CVS that should take care of any problems with NTFS. I tested myself with a fresh XP install. It resized just fine and booted back up multiple times without problems afterwards.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
