Re: [Dragora-users] dragora-installer: Partition detection issues

[Matias Fonzo]

El 2019-11-21 09:59, Michael Siegel escribió:
> Am 21.11.19 um 02:39 schrieb Matias Fonzo:
> > El 2019-11-20 19:15, Matias Fonzo escribió:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Don't worry, I have modified the lines to make them more "generic"
> > between possible different versions of fdisk (old or new).  You have 
> > the
> > new packages here:
> >
> > http://rsync.dragora.org/current/packages/i586/tools/dragora-installer-20191120-i586+1.tlz
> >
> > http://rsync.dragora.org/current/packages/i586/tools/dragora-installer-20191120-i586+1.tlz.sha256
>
> This seems to work correctly now.

I'm glad it's working properly.  ;-)

> I performed a full installation of Dragora on a hard drive with the
> following partition layout:
>
> Device     Boot    Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1  *        2048  20973567  20971520   10G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2       20973568  23070719   2097152    1G 82 Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/sda3       23070720 156301487 133230768 63.5G 83 Linux
>
> All partitions were detected correctly and no error was reported during
> the installation process, except for fontconfig complaining about not
> being able to write some cache. (I haven't managed to record the error
> message yet.)
>
> The newly installed system then booted without any problems.
>
> I then performed another full installation of Dragora on the same
> machine to see how the installer would react to the hard drive
> partitions being formatted already. This all went as expected. I merely
> made the installer re-format the root partition to be safe.
>
> How would dragora-installer deal with an already formatted root
> partition that contains files, by the way?

The installer will try to detect if there is a previous fstab, in that 
case the installer asks if you want to overwrite it or not.  Beyond 
this, during the installation of packages they are forced to look for 
such versions, where all the content of /etc will be preserved for the 
configuration files declared according to the recipes (which is where 
the binary packages come from).

If these are old or new versions of Dragora, there shouldn't be any 
problems.  It is always better to do a fresh installation.