Comment 8 for bug 89509

Colin Watson schrieb:
> OK, this is expected; the installer didn't detect any filesystem it knew
> about on sdb3, and at present it only shows a partition size in the
> "Edit partition" dialog for the purposes of resizing the filesystem, so
> you don't get a size displayed there if it can't resize the filesystem.
>
> Did you experience any other similar problems in this run, other than
> sdb3?
>

Colin,

wish you were here - you certainly would get me right in no time at all.
But that's not possible - so I'll try to explain my problem better.

I just started the edgy-ubiquity on the box in question - everything
works as expected. I then started the new version coming with feisty.

I choose "Partitiontable manual". I want to install Feisty on /dev/sdb1
(root) and /dev/sdb2 (swap). I do not want to change any partition size.

I highlight the line reading
/dev/sdb1 ext3 /media/sdb1 6448 MB

That's fine, there is an existing ext3 with an old edgy test
installation. So I click "Edit Partition". A new window pops up telling me:

New partition size: 0 # zero
use as: ext3
mountpoint: /media/sdb1

 From this point on I'm lost. I do not know the precise partition size,
so I can't correct 0 to the right value in MB.

To be able to read better the main window, I dragged the "Edit
Partition" Window a bit aside. Strange enough: The value for new
partition size jumped from 0 to 2000. Weird ...

As I do not want to change my partition layout, I cancel the installation.

Uuuuh ...

Gerd