On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 02:35 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > Are we really at a stopping point until I have one? I'm desperate > enough that I toyed with the idea of allowing fdisk to clear the > partition table then rerun the installer and interrupt it just after > it writes the default partitions to disk (on the assumption that they > would be the same as the table I *should* have now). I'm still too > cowardly to try it. If you're prepared to lose everything on your disc, then you can try any experiment you want to. The installer doesn't have to change partitions on a disc, you can simply pick which pre-set up partitions should be mounted as / and /boot, plus any others that you want. So, you can partition the drive using any other partitioning program that you want. I do something like that. I boot the installer disc, let it get to the stage where I have a command line somewhere (CTRL+ALT+ one of the function keys, until I find a shell), use fdisk to partition my drive in the manner that I want, with the labels that I want, etc. CTRL+ALT+ the F key that takes me back to the install screen, then proceed through to the manual partitioning screen. I *pick* the partitions, and uncheck any format this partition options. (That also allows me to clean install a new OS, but keep data stored in some partitions, such as /home.) -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
