I am currently using the 2006.1 installer to install my new gentoo linux. When I installed it on my laptop, it deleted my ntfs and fat32 partitions on the same drive even though I did not tell the installer to modify the partitions nor gave it mount points. Hardware: Gateway 9550 laptop, p3 1.066ghz, 384 megs of ram, and a single 30gig harddrive. Steps to repeat my problem: 1. Have an existing drive with either fat32 or ntfs with free space up front to install linux. In my case I had 9gigs. 2. Start up the Gentoo GTK+ installer and go to the partition section. 3. In the unallocated space up front create swap space (580megs in my case) 4. Create a xfs (8.5gigs in my case) partition with the mount point / . 5. Continue with the installer using all grp packages and continue. You should hopefully see the installer delete those ntfs and/or fat32 partitions. BR
We will try to recreate this. Can you give us the output of fdisk of the original layout. Were the windows partitions numbered out of order?
Did it recreate them afterwards? If so, that's the way it's supposed to work.
Actually it failed and the installer just stopped there saying it failed. It created the new partitions and deleted the ntfs and fat32. When I reopened the installer and started the install again, the installer confirmed that the partitions were gone. Existing Partitions when I first started the installer: hda1 ntfs 5gigs hda2 fat32 15gigs Created the linux partitions with the installer.
What actual error did it give? Were you resizing either of those partitions? You need to give us a *lot* more information in order for us to do anything with this. It would be nice if you could attach your /tmp/installprofile.xml and /var/log/install.log.failed.
Created attachment 95682 [details] My install profile
I sadly was not able to recreate it and document my error message, but I think I found out what went wrong with me trying to recreate the problem. It seems when I delete an existing primary partition (xfs in my case) and make a new parition in its place as a logical partition. The installer will automatically turn all partitions down the disk into a logical parition even though they were primary partitions to begin with. I bet in the process it also deletes the old patition. Steps to recreate: 1. Have 4 paritions step up as primary partitions. In my case I have hda1=swap, hda2=xfs, hda3=ntfs, and hda4=fat32. 2. Delete hda2 3. Create a new parition in that space as a logical parition (in my case xfs). The new hda2 place is now called hda5 (not suprising), however the old unchanged hda3 and hda4 are now called hda6 and hda7 respectively and are now logical partitions, but still retain the same file system type.
Oy, that's a fun one. I haven't seen that before. I really wish we could catch this stuff in testing :/
I am glad you are able to see it. This is a really nasty bug. In any case, thank god for backups.
I'm not sure how to actually fix this problem, so I'm not going to. I've added a big warning message that displays when the partitioning screen loads.
