Re: Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb
- From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:51:55 -0400
On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:31, Kam Leo wrote:
On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:03 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings, here comes YARADD (Yet Another Rant About Disk
Druid) or whatever that beast is called now.
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 want to do an install onto /dev/hdb, and when its done, just
move the stuff in /dev/hdb1 (/boot) over to /dev/hda1(/boot)
edit the grub.conf and do a dual boot setup. Or maybe even
just edit the entries in grub.conf to point at (hd1:0) for the
rest of the FC5 boot.
From the text screen this so-called disk configurator makes
it rather
hard to assure one that its dealing with the partition you
selected from the list as anytime you press ok, /dev/hda comes
back up highlighted. Thats damned poor form IMO, it should
revert to highlighting the partition being addresssed at the
moment.
So how can I bypass this "thing from hell" and get to actually
doing the install, and do it where I want it?
----
I am confused just trying to read what you are talking about but
I am gathering that you don't know what you are doing and will
put yourself in a world of hurt here since it may very well try
to 'label' the partitions with labels that are already available
on /dev/hda
No, Craig, the OP is not confused. The text mode UI took a big hit
in usability. The developers need to revert back to the UI used in
previous releasesI. The results would indicate that very little
testing of text mode installation was perform outside of the
developers group.
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if you understand his issue - tell him what he should do
Craig
I do not fully understand the issue. What I did in my limited
installation experience with this release was to delete my already
created partition, recreate it, and add a mount point. Probably just
editing the mount point, even entering the same data, would have
worked.
It doesn't pre-read whats there, and it wants it in different units, not
disk blocks, but megabytes or some such. And if you try to make it
accept what you think might be the right set of numbers, it segfaults
and exits. Everytime.
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