Comment 13 for bug 78810

Yesterday I dloaded both live and alternate 0117 builds for X64 and tested them first in VMware.

The live x64 CD (after doing the debconf thing) hangs during partitioning. Rebooting the live CD showed that the virtual HD was partitioned correctly but not formatted (ext3 + swap). The problem must be in formatting.

Then, (my the first time with feisty alt), I attempted the alternate x64 install in VMware. It worked fine and installation was perfect. After rebooting, there were some minor glitches, but it worked.

Then I thought the alternate cd is the answer. I attempted installation in my actual harddisk (which includes 2 more ntfs partitions). The text installer did not let me select the free space for partitioning and got me running in circles without letting me go back in the previous installation screens. Therefore the text installer has problems itself in the case of existing partitions on the disk. Today I got me a new sata disk and will attempt installing the alt cd on it.

My humble opinion is that a flawless version of the text installer should first be developed and then converted to a GTK front end. Also my impression is that this thread contains more than one bugs and it thus should be divided in several bug reports. Please advise accordingly what we should do.