Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:31, Kam Leo wrote:
>On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:03 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
>> > On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> 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.
>>
>> ----
>> 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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