On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:42:04AM -0400, pking123@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am going on my memory of this, so please pardon the vagueness. Okay, but it'll have to make any answers pretty vague too. > I have a few problems with the latest Fedora install system. The > installation gave no other option for configuring hard disks other than to > use Disk Druid. DIsk Druid could not handle one of my hard drives, and I > believe it was the one located on my Promis Card. It complained that it > could not read the partition table. I was not happy with this, since this > HD contained the partitions for /home and /usr/local/. fdisk had no > problem reading this disk when I went to a separate console. In fact, > mount also worked. So..... actually, the installer *does* give you the option of using fdisk, via the alternate console.... > The deal with the install program is that it refused to go ahead unless > there was a /home partition somewhere (there should be no reason for > this). With nothing entered for /home, it first installed in the / > partition, and /usr/local/ could also be dealt with. The problem was that You're right -- I don't think there's any such limitation in the code, so that's pretty weird. What version is this? And what do you mean by "it first installed in the / partition"? You *will* need to have a / partition, of course. > /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab were not set up so I could just edit it to put > the right information in, so I was stuck, since there appeared to be no > documentation on how to set it up. It appears that once you use DD, > everything is written in stone and there is no turning back. 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, I tried the installation again. What it decided then to do is wipe out > the partition table after only instructing it to mount the partitions and > not reformat them (it didn't ask before doing so) and set up new > partitions in their place. > > What I want to know is, why insist on ONLY using DD for configuring the > HDs? And why was /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab mucked with so much and not > documented? 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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
