Summary: | Console install is starting over from the beginning instead of picking up where it left off | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Alma J Wetzker <awetzker> |
Component: | Installer | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Alma J Wetzker
2007-03-30 01:11:25 UTC
I am sorry to hear about your frustration with GLI. The installer is designed to follow a set list of procedures in order to install. Each of those steps depends on the other being executed. There is currently no resuming support, though there is retry support in the console frontend for 2007.0, which is being released in a few weeks. To clarify your bug, you are complaining about the installer always starting at step 1 instead of being able to pick a point to resume an install. This isn't possible due to the fact that the installer needs to know things like the mountpoints and which way portage was sync'd in order to know how to do other steps down the line. I would recommend waiting a few weeks for 2007.0 to come out if you can. Otherwise you may be able to avoid your problem by not using the snapshot on the livecd and downloading your stage3 and portage from the internet. To clarify, it looks like you loaded a previously created install profile, which triggers a special mode in the new version. This special mode runs all the steps at once instead of in small groups. When the installer asks if you want to retry, it will start back at the beginning of that small group of steps. In this case, that small group of steps was the entire install. It's not so much a bug as a lack of a feature (more fine-grained retrying). |