Bug#866082: Fails on Guided partitioning for 8GiB disk

[Narcis Garcia]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20170615
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

It says:
"Failed to partition the selected disk"
"This probably happened because the selected disk or free space is too
small to be automatically partitioned"

Manual partitioning a sigle primary partition (using whole disk) does
not produce any space nor installation problem (tasks:
desktop+printing+ssh+standard) - leaves more than 4GiB free.

When trying same procedure with 16GiB hard disk ("single"* partition) is
not complaining, and it seems to need only ~4GiB for whole system.

(*) Choosing only 1 partition produces 2 partitions (root & swap). Words
aren't selected well for that question.

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 wontfix
Control: retitle -1 partman multi recipe doesn't work on 8 GiB disk

I don't think it makes sense to support this case.

Ben.

[Narcis Garcia]

Many people may feel this matter is not important because most of
installations are for traditional PCs, but there are other scenarios
such as TV devices, phone/tablets, VM, etc. with less internal space.

[Ben Hutchings]

Post by Narcis Garcia
Many people may feel this matter is not important because most of
installations are for traditional PCs, but there are other scenarios
such as TV devices, phone/tablets, VM, etc. with less internal space.

Debian installer is not intended for setting up embedded systems.

Ben.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Ben Hutchings
severity -1 wishlist

Bug #866082 [debian-installer] Fails on Guided partitioning for 8GiB disk
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important'

Post by Ben Hutchings
tag -1 wontfix

Bug #866082 [debian-installer] Fails on Guided partitioning for 8GiB disk
Added tag(s) wontfix.

Post by Ben Hutchings
retitle -1 partman multi recipe doesn't work on 8 GiB disk

Bug #866082 [debian-installer] Fails on Guided partitioning for 8GiB disk
Changed Bug title to 'partman multi recipe doesn't work on 8 GiB disk' from 'Fails on Guided partitioning for 8GiB disk'.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

reassign -1 partman-auto

Bug #866082 [debian-installer] partman multi recipe doesn't work on 8 GiB disk
Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'partman-auto'.
No longer marked as found in versions debian-installer/20170615.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #866082 to the same values previously set

tags -1 - wontfix

Bug #866082 [partman-auto] partman multi recipe doesn't work on 8 GiB disk
Removed tag(s) wontfix.

[Holger Wansing]

Control: reassign -1 partman-auto
Control: tags -1 - wontfix


Shortly there has been a change regarding the automated recipes
for guided partitioning.
Since then, the multi recipe is no longer provided, when partitioning
an 8 GB disk.


Holger

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

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