On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:06, Craig White wrote: >On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 19:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:11, Craig White wrote: >> [...] >> >> >---- >> >if you understand his issue - tell him what he should do >> > >> >Craig >> >> With all due respect Craig, you obviously don't want to understand >> the issue. You need a shorter horse, that ones waay too high. > >---- >fair enough - if by your refusal to disconnect the existing hard drive >now known as /dev/hda - you damage the installation, please do now > whine on list without expecting an 'I told you so' > >I would also be extremely surprised if disk druid weren't capable of >installing into already created valid partitions which I guess is what >you are struggling to do. > That is exactly, precisely the point, if you do not edit that partition, AND enter what it thinks are valid numbers, it won't even let you get to access the label string at the top of the edit screen. Any attempt to fool it and get on by just segfaults and exits to a "you may now reboot your computer" message. Besides that, the edit cursor cannot be found most of the time so you hit the tab key and the space bar alternately looking to see if it had the right effect, often it doesn't so you back out & retry. Its busted, its been called to this lists attention lots of times and yet the brokenness is ignored by blameing it all on clueless users. I dare say most just give up and let it do it the way it wants to, and when the system is then broken beyond recovery, debian gets put on that box because you CAN configure it the exact way you want. And they put up with XFree86 and its crashes. I built x.org-6.8-901 nearly 2 years ago now, on two different machines and its yet to crash. I built kde-3.3.0 using konstruct back when it was new because the one installed by FC2 when I upgraded was crashing just by hovering the mouse over a printing function. That problem actually turned out to be a bad cups rpm build that AFAIK, hasn't been updated (for FC2) yet because you officially don't care about kde. I've built newer cups since, several times now in fact, along with the gimp and gutenprint from scratch several times. I'm also running kernel 2.6.16.1 built from scratch along with amanda-2.5.0, built from scratch in the next 24 hours after a new version is released. Yet you continually berate me as a big dummy suffering from alzheimers. When I do come to this list for help, I usually know exactly what question I should be asking, I ask it with enough detail so there is no possibility of miss-understanding if you can read english, and yet you continually miss-understand me. So either understand the question and help IF you can (and which I'm doubting from the responses so far), or just ignore me, I can tolerate that. I'm going to try the gui installer once just for grins & if that won't work, then I'll pull hda and move the new drive to the end connector jumpered for master. But, when I do that, I want to know before hand, howto remove the labels this borked piece of crap will no doubt put on the partitions. I'll build customised /etc/fstab's for both drives IF I don't run into an e2fsck version miss-match like I did with 2 different debian based installs on another box thats now running my milling machine. Thats a PITA too FWIW when the same version number of e2fsck, 1.35, can't check the same versions drives of another parallel install. So how do I remove a label from a partition once its been labeled? >Craig -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
