Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb
Sjoerd Mullender
sjoerd at acm.org
Mon Apr 3 12:01:49 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>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 know what you mean. Over the last several versions I've tried,
> there's options to:
>
> Reuse and repartition an entire drive.
> Reuse and repartition Linux partitions.
> Use spare space.
>
> But no option to take an already partitioned drive, and use the
> partitions as you see fit. It's this tomfoolery that makes it next to
> impossible to keep a /home partition when doing a fresh install. A
> fresh install ought to let you just format some partitions, leave others
> alone, and install where you want. Your idea about upgrading from FCx
> to FCy might well be to format the existing /, /usr/ & /var/ partitions,
> keep /home/ as-is, but the installation routine makes it damn difficult.
> You have to create some partitions to keep the routine happy, and if you
> have nothing free to begin with, you're hosed.
>
> I've not struck this problem installing other OS. It's my choice
> whether to repartition, or not. It's my choice whether to format, or
> not. It's my choice what goes onto what partition.
>
This is nonsense.
When I installed FC5 at home I booted the first CD with "linux
askmethod" and I was given the opportunity to reuse already formatted
partitions, just reformat partitions without repartitioning (which is
what I did), or repartition. For the latter choice I could have chosen
to let anaconda do the partitioning or I could have done it myself. And
it was also possible to do combinations of reformatting existing
partitions and just reusing them (e.g. leave /home allone and reformat /
and /boot).
It's all there.
It may be true that you don't get the choice by default (I don't know, I
didn't try the default), but in at least some of the boot options from
the install CD, you do have the possibility.
--
Sjoerd Mullender
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