On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:27, Les Mikesell wrote: >0On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:46, Schlaegel wrote: >> >That's not true. It works fine with multiple hard drives. I do >> > it all >> >> of the >> >> >time. >> >> I do this also. I use a second hard drive and have never had any >> install problems. I usually save a backup of my old root >> partition, then have the installer reformat everything but my home >> partition. > >I've seen the pre-FC3 version do some really stupid things when you >give it more than one drive for an auto-partition install - like >putting /boot on one drive and nothing else, wasting the rest >of the drive. FC3 combines them with LVM which seems OK. Also, >when trying to make all partitions as RAID1 mirrors on 2 drives >the pre-FC3 DD would always rearrange the layout in ways that >didn't work unless I used fdisk to create the partitions first. >FC3 seems to have a special case for this but I haven't tried >it yet. > I should probably toss this into the FC3 pot here too, and see who stirs it. The last FC3RC3 install, even after I fixed it to use the first of 2 installs of BDI-Live, has now convinced itself that it can only boot from /dev/hdb1. And I have run grub-install against /dev/hda (hda1) several times since trying to rectify that little faux paugh. If someone can tell me how to fix that, it would be appreciated. >-- > Les Mikesell > les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
