Two questions about the Sarge installer

Two questions about the Sarge installer

[Krister Ekstrom]

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Hi  speakup,

  I'm about to install the Sarge Debian Linux version on my main
  machine and have a couple questions:
  I can't seem to choose country when in the "choose country" menu of
  the installer. You see, i live in Sweden, i want english as my
  language but Sweden as my country. I don't hear any country names,
  but i hear Europe, South America, North America etc, and where the
  countries should be there is only a number sign, ("#"). What thing
  am i missing?
  There are some options dealing with configuration of where i want to
  put my Linux system too. As i mentioned yesterday on the reflector,
  i want to put the system on a hard drive that's dedicated for this.
  It seems that a manual configuration is the best since the automagic
  one wipes everything in the computer clear, is this correct?
  Thanks for any help.

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/Krister
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Re: Two questions about the Sarge installer

[hank]

how did you get to the automatic config?
I can't get past the partitioning.  on my linux box.
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From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:21 AM
Subject: Two questions about the Sarge installer


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> Hi  speakup,
> 
>   I'm about to install the Sarge Debian Linux version on my main
>   machine and have a couple questions:
>   I can't seem to choose country when in the "choose country" menu of
>   the installer. You see, i live in Sweden, i want english as my
>   language but Sweden as my country. I don't hear any country names,
>   but i hear Europe, South America, North America etc, and where the
>   countries should be there is only a number sign, ("#"). What thing
>   am i missing?
>   There are some options dealing with configuration of where i want to
>   put my Linux system too. As i mentioned yesterday on the reflector,
>   i want to put the system on a hard drive that's dedicated for this.
>   It seems that a manual configuration is the best since the automagic
>   one wipes everything in the computer clear, is this correct?
>   Thanks for any help.
> 
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> /Krister
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Re: Two questions about the Sarge installer

[Krister Ekstrom]

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Hi hank,

On 10 Mar 2004 08:12:00  (my local time 17:12:00), you typed::
h> how did you get to the automatic config?
h> I can't get past the partitioning.  on my linux box.

In the main menu of the installer, there was a choice that said
something like: "Automatically partition hard drives". I thought that
i'd be able to choose what hard drive to automagically configure, but
as i went into that option it told me that it would wipe the whole
machine clean, and if i wanted to back up anything, i should stop at
this point to do so. This lead me to getting out of the program again.


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Re: Two questions about the Sarge installer

[hank]

I couldn't get to that point I try to get to that point once in the
partition program and it tells me it can't create a boot partition.
it acts like this thing has a dos partition.
I got this hd used.
hth
hank
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Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Two questions about the Sarge installer


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> Hi hank,
>
> On 10 Mar 2004 08:12:00  (my local time 17:12:00), you typed::
> h> how did you get to the automatic config?
> h> I can't get past the partitioning.  on my linux box.
>
> In the main menu of the installer, there was a choice that said
> something like: "Automatically partition hard drives". I thought that
> i'd be able to choose what hard drive to automagically configure, but
> as i went into that option it told me that it would wipe the whole
> machine clean, and if i wanted to back up anything, i should stop at
> this point to do so. This lead me to getting out of the program again.
>
>
> - --
> /Krister
> crisekstrom@bredband.net
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Re: Two questions about the Sarge installer

[Shane Wegner]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:21:35AM +0100, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>   I can't seem to choose country when in the "choose country" menu of
>   the installer. You see, i live in Sweden, i want english as my
>   language but Sweden as my country. I don't hear any country names,

I encountered the same problem during my installs.  I think
it's a bug in d-i so my advice would be to just use the
defaults and change your system language once you get
everything installed.

>   i want to put the system on a hard drive that's dedicated for this.
>   It seems that a manual configuration is the best since the automagic
>   one wipes everything in the computer clear, is this correct?

Yeah, I'd definitely go with manual if you have other
drives which you don't waqnt wiped.  Use the manual
partitioning tool and just create your linux partitions on
the clear drive.

S


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