On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 20:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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? > e2label > >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. >
