partitioning bug during install: RH8/9 FC1

[Trae McCombs]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 02:12, David Kewley wrote:

> As for pre-allocating the Windows partition, without actually installing 
> Windows, there's no need to do something as involved as putting a minimal 
> RHL/FC installation on hda1.  Just boot from the RHL/FC CD 1 as "linux 
> rescue", then use fdisk to create hda1 as partition type 7. :)  Then reboot 
> with CD 1 as normal to install RHL/FC.

Hi again David,

I'm well aware of various methods of work-around techniques, such as the
one you mention.  I use them often for the current partitioning tool is
broken.  The problem is the tool should work right without having to do
a work-around.  That is the bug I'd like to report.  One shouldn't have
to utilize other tools to simply setup his hard drive the way he wants
during install.  The installation system should provide the tool to get
the job done.  And if someone wants to do:

/dev/hda1 /foo
/dev/hda2 /
/dev/hda3 swap

Then, they shouldn't have to use other tools to do so.  It shouldn't
matter what any of the slices are doing.  If I wanted to simply have the
above hard drive partitioning structure, it should just work without
re-swaping things around and making /  /dev/hda1 when I don't want it to
be.  Even if I wanted /dev/hda1 to be FreeBSD, or something else... I
shouldn't have to install FreeBSD first.  Nor should I have to install
Windows first, or do the aforementioned work-around.

It's a simple thing here, not some big complicated setup. :)  Or am I
completely missing something.  

Trae

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