Debian-Installer errata
Errata for Wheezy release Alpha 1
This is a list of known problems in the wheezy release alpha 1 of the Debian Installer. If you do not see your problem listed here, please send us an installation report describing the problem.
- Other operating systems not added to grub's boot menu
- Other operating systems, such as Windows, are detected but in some
cases they're not added to grub's boot menu. As workaround, after
installing, run update-grub.
See #666750 and #608025. - Makes incompatible partition table with Mac OS 9
- It was reported that the partitioning tool in the installer makes
the partition table unrecognizable by Mac OS 9 which no longer boots.
Although the HFS+ partitions are compatible with Linux and Mac OS X it
is advised to take all precautions when installing on a machine with
Mac OS 9.
See #604134. - Partitioning fails on kFreeBSD
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There are reports of failing partitioning on kFreeBSD.
The problem seems to be related with partitions alignment / extended
partitions.
See #593733, #597088 and #602129. - Network/Graphic/Storage card doesn't work properly
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There is several hardware, notably network cards, graphic cards and
storage controllers, that require binary non-free firmware to work
properly.
Debian is commited to free software values and never make the system require non-free software (see Debian's Social Contract). So, non-free firmware is not included in the installer.
But if you want to load any external firmware during installation you are free to do it. The process is documented in the installation manual. - zipl installation problem that makes s390 uninstallable
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If a dedicated partition for the /boot directory is created system-boot
fails after installation if /boot is mounted before /.
See #519254. - Partitions over 16TiB not supported by ext4
- The ext4 file system creation tools do not support creating file systems over 16TiB in size.
- s390: unsupported features
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- support for the DASD DIAG discipline is currently not available