On Monday 03 April 2006 08:01, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: >Tim wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>Howinhell do I use it to do absolutely nothing more to /dev/hdb, >>> which I have already partitioned the way *I* want it, based on the >>> useage pattern I already have on /dev/hda, but to simply remember >>> the mount points name for the construction of /etc/fstab? >> >> I know what you mean. Over the last several versions I've tried, >> there's options to: >> >> Reuse and repartition an entire drive. >> Reuse and repartition Linux partitions. >> Use spare space. >> >> But no option to take an already partitioned drive, and use the >> partitions as you see fit. It's this tomfoolery that makes it next >> to impossible to keep a /home partition when doing a fresh install. >> A fresh install ought to let you just format some partitions, leave >> others alone, and install where you want. Your idea about upgrading >> from FCx to FCy might well be to format the existing /, /usr/ & >> /var/ partitions, keep /home/ as-is, but the installation routine >> makes it damn difficult. You have to create some partitions to keep >> the routine happy, and if you have nothing free to begin with, >> you're hosed. >> >> I've not struck this problem installing other OS. It's my choice >> whether to repartition, or not. It's my choice whether to format, >> or not. It's my choice what goes onto what partition. > >This is nonsense. > >When I installed FC5 at home I booted the first CD with "linux >askmethod" and I was given the opportunity to reuse already formatted >partitions, just reformat partitions without repartitioning (which is >what I did), or repartition. For the latter choice I could have > chosen to let anaconda do the partitioning or I could have done it > myself. And it was also possible to do combinations of reformatting > existing partitions and just reusing them (e.g. leave /home allone > and reformat / and /boot). > >It's all there. > Bullshit. Not available in the text screen install when booted to the dvd. If there is an 'askmethod' then I suggest if be suitably documented in the help available from the Fkeys. It is not. I was able to work around it in the gui except for its insane insistance that /root cannot be a partition, but MUST be a dir on /. FWIW, I had this same problem when I installed RH8, which got upgraded to the FC2 I'm running ATM. The first thing I did was put a line in the fstab to mount it, and copied everything from the directory to it before rebooting. So I dual mounted /, cleaned up the wasted space, rebooted and never looked back. >It may be true that you don't get the choice by default (I don't know, > I didn't try the default), but in at least some of the boot options > from the install CD, you do have the possibility. -- 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.
