On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:19:15PM -0400, pking123@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > No, because it ignores everything you do in that console. The mounts only > work while you are in the console, but I can't stay in that console > forever. I need to reboot at some point and use what I installed. I haven't found this to be the case. Can you tell me exactly what you're doing? > The version of Fedora is Version 3 Core, which is the latest version, > downloaded from fedora.redhat.com. I can't tell you what version of > Anaconda was being used, but I am sure it is on the website. Okay. I'm not sure if the parted (that's a program name, not a typo) bug was fixed in time for that release; there were some issues with playing nice with pre-existing partition tables in Fedora Core 2, and I know it's now fixed in the upcoming FC4, but I'm not clear exactly on when the fix went it. > I mean that the home directory installed on to / despite my not mentioning > anything about where to put "home". I wanted to create /home myself and > mount the volume later through /etc/fstab, but Fedora doesn't seem to have > a way of editing /etc/fstab in a way that the changes will stick. Oh, I see what you're saying. In order to have a standard Unix-like FHS-compliant filesystem layout, it makes a /home directory on the / partition. This is totally independent of the partitioning scheme. You can mount any filesystem just about anywhere; there should be no problem with doing this after the fact even though the mount point has already been created. (It should be empty after the install until you create a user account, so don't do that until you've mounted your filesystem.) > > Disk Druid isn't smart enough to have any particular way of writing > > anything in stone, so I don't think that's it. > So the problem is either with Anaconda or whatever subsystem that appears > to have control over /etc/fstab. I recall that the top of /etc/fstab had a > warning not to edit the file directly, but I could not find any other way > to set things up. Just to be sure -- in the alternate console, you're editing /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab, not /etc/fstab, right? > > This is a strange, strange question. It's like saying "Why insist on > > only using Anaconda to install Fedora?" No one's *insisting* -- it's > > just the tool that's provided. > I don't think it is a strange question at all. Why insist on using > Anaconda at all? Why should there not be a way to set up the system on a > lower level? Historically, (at least on other distros) DD was an option, > not just the only tool provided. Isn't this like putting all your eggs in > one basket? Linux was supposed to be more robust than that. The point is, you don't *have* to use Anaconda either. You can set up the system with some other installer you want to write or that someone else has written if you really want. > Also, my basic question remains: how are partitions supposed to be set up > if I can't touch /etc/fstab? It's hard to answer because the "if" clause is faulty. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
