Finally got around to test installer 6.0.2 on a new snapshot of my (still reasonably clean) sid install; newly dist-upgraded, originally siduction but now essentially straight sid, including kernel and live-* from Debian. Yad is now installed, that was detected and used automatically
Chose to not install bootloader and use disk labels. Single partition.
Mountpoints have already changed in sid, probably soon in wheezy ("freeze" exception) so this must now be added to excludes :
- Code:
lib/live/mount
<slash-etc/fsab.d> is already in excludes but should probably be <slash-etc/fsab.d/*>
Having manually edited that the install went well and everything seems to work. Log:
- Code:
Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
df: write error: Broken pipe
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
(yad:7510): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 5.78486 s, 46.4 MB/s
Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
sed: can't read /target/home/user/.gconf/apps/gksu/%gconf.xml: No such file or directory
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
df: write error: Broken pipe
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
df: write error: Broken pipe
EDIT some of the errors above probably because the live-user in the snap is other than "user"
Observations on disk labels:
For me the main reason for disk labels is that the actual partitions have humanly-identifiable labels, whether or not labels are used in fstab. Normally, here, UUID (with comments) is used in fstab but all partitions get labelled, e.g. "refracta" "sid-snap" "tera-data"
My idea for refracta-installer (advanced options menu) was simply a text box where you could set a custom partition label. I didn't know the plan was to do fstab as well.
But it's not possible to suit every individual needs case. Ultimately those of us who have reasons to configure things differently still can even if a little extra manual work is required. There is only a real problem when choices are actually removed and replaced with enforced defaults. (e.g. grub-pc to mbr without asking)
Anyway. good work, I know it is time-consuming tracking sid/testing, soon as you get something sorted it's already changed!
EDIT As I used labels, could not test the quotes around fstab uuid which caused errors were sorted properly... (minor point) "The root password can now be changed" window has no title so "YAD" gets used.