On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:56 -0400, Mauriat Miranda wrote: > On 5/5/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I question if this necessary. You can have entries in fstab with or > > > without labels. I've had 3 single Fedora installations on single drive > > > across multiple partitions and never have run into a problem in the > > > installer or usage nor have I had to manually edit fstab for this. I > > > think in Anaconda the labels will start shifting to /1, /2, /home1 > > > etc. Since at runtime you don't deal with partition labels, just their > > > mount points, it really is not a serious concern. > > > > Assume you are in the IT dept for some group and you are used > > to being able to re-use disks in different machines and to > > recover data from any disk by installing/mounting in any working > > machine. Now you find that any combination of disks from > > default fedora/RH/Centos installs won't boot... It is a > > problem. > > So you boot with a LiveCD or some Rescue disk/media and fix it - use > the device ID or relabel it. Isn't that the way to fix it? I don't > understand the problem. Your assumed scenario is too vague. > > -Mauriat We are tying to produce a distribution, are we not, that the uninitiated can install and it will just work. A lot of things can be fixed but we want to avoid that. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
