On Sunday 06 December 2009, Robert Nichols wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> If you know how to make the 'installer' partition a drive according to >> your wishes without its refusing to accept say a 400 Mbyte /boot >> partition, or demanding that /root & /var MUST live on /, then please >> write up a downloadable, printable PDF on how to do that since that data >> to guide one around the fedora imposed toll gates is not available during >> the install. Do so, let us know where it can be pulled from and I will >> gladly, gleefully kill a tree. And should we ever meet, the first 3 are >> on me. ;) > >This sounds like you've been doing your installs from a Live CD, where >your options are indeed quite limited. The installation CD set or DVD >includes a perfectly good partitioning tool that allows you to set up >partitions and mount points pretty much any way you want, and also >allows you to switch to a text console and run 'fdisk' if you need to >rearrange an existing partitioning scheme. You do have to select >"Create custom layout" in the first partitioning dialog. I always have done so, but it still nags, or just loops, rejecting the changes if it doesn't like them. >The only >problems I've ever run into with the built-in partitioning tool is its >refusal to deal with anomalies such as partitions not in physical disk >order or the use of "limit capacity" jumpers back in the days of disks >larger than what the BIOS would support. > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
