Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb

[Craig White]

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?
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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

Suggestion...don't be lazy. Disconnect /dev/hda and plug the drive you
want to install into master and complete the install, then switch them
back, boot from /dev/hda and then fix grub the way you want

Craig