How did the "Installer" fail for you? It has sense

[konstk]

Well the so called "Installer" failed in many different ways so far. I'm trying to install RR64 3.0 RC1. Sometimes it fails because it says it can't get an ip address from the dhcp server. Other times it failed because it sad some partitions were mounted which it shouldn't have even touched and which were not the install partition. But this is my favorite reason that it gives:

GLI: June 18 2006 07:31:48 - Setting root password.
GLI: June 18 2006 07:31:48 - Livecd root password set.
GLI: June 18 2006 07:31:48 - Portmap started.
GLI: June 18 2006 07:31:48 - Completed pre_install steps
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Partition table for /dev/hdd is unchanged...skipping
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - partition(): Processing /dev/hda...
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Partition 1 has origminor 1...saving start sector 63 and end sector 40965749
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Partition 2 has origminor 2...saving start sector 40965750 and end sector 150127424
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Partition 3 has origminor 5 and it being resized...saving start sector 82124343
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Partition 4 has origminor 6...saving start sector 85208823 and end sector 150127424
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Exception received during 'Partition': MissingPartitionsError :FATAL: partition: Cannot find the existing partition that a new one refers to. This is not a bug. This is in fact your (the user's) fault. You should not reuse the installprofile.xml from a previous install that started the partitioning step.
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 192, in run
self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: June 18 2006 08:59:07 - File "../../templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 374, in partition
raise GLIException("MissingPartitionsError", 'fatal', 'partition', "Cannot find the existing partition that a new one refers to.

NOW noticed the next lines it prints:

"This is not a bug. This is in fact your (the user's) fault."

Hey now, WTF !! That's right. Blame it on the user. I guess it's covering it's ass for it's shortcomings.

I am under the suspision that the so called "Installer" was in fact secretly written by Microsoft and planted in the Gentoo community to frustrate and then "assimulate" the Gentoo users into the Microsoft collective. It certainly behaves as if it was written by Microsoft.

Has the Installer worked for anyone at all who already has partitions on the target hard drive?

I have the following drive partitions:
/dev/hda1 1 2550 20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2551 9345 54580837+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2551 2563 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2564 5112 20474811 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5113 5304 1542208+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8 5305 9345 32459301 83 Linux

hda6 is the target install partition.

[shacker]

Has the Installer worked for anyone at all who already has partitions on the target hard drive?

Yes, it works if you install on the last partition of the hard disk.
Trying to put linux in the middle of existing partitions wiped all that was after it for me:/

[BernieMan]

I am under the suspision that the so called "Installer" was in fact secretly written by Microsoft and planted in the Gentoo community to frustrate and then "assimulate" the Gentoo users into the Microsoft collective. It certainly behaves as if it was written by Microsoft.

A real Gentooxer will never change to M$. Vista eventually? Never!