Bug#497223: Package: installation-reports

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Jérémy Bobbio <lunar at debian.org> [2008.09.01.1458 +0100]:
> > While the md devices were creating & formatting inside the installer, 
> > the seemingly long delays left me wondering if the installation was 
> > going to hang. A message informing a user that these steps could take a 
> > while might ease concern.

What seemingly long delay? Creation should be quick, and the
formatting should take as long as with any other filesystem.

Please be a lot more precise with your reports.

> > After installation, "cat /proc/mdstat" showed md1 : active(auto-read-only).
> > Had to issue "sudo mdadm --readwrite /dev/md1"  to correct.

It will turn off auto-read-only as soon as you write to it.

> > md1 is not listed in mount output.

Is it maybe your swap?

> > gparted (GUI) does not recognize all partitions correctly and
> > lists several of them as 'unknown'.\
> >
> > fdisk -l complained of invalid partitions (listed above).

Which ones? Also note that /dev/md* are not partitions.

> > Not 100% confident these arrays are safe for data.

They seem fine.

You provide very little information and expect us to read between
lines or to ask questions. This steals a lot of time. Please try in
the future to provide everything that's relevant.

For instance, you claim that "md1 is not listed in mount output" but
you don't show us the mount output or /etc/fstab.

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