why is disk partitioning finalized so early in the install?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:

>  > Subject: why is disk partitioning finalized so early in the install?
> >
> >
> >   my apologies for what might be a few more silly questions but, in
> > my current install, i'm seeing a new dialog "Writing partitioning to
> > disk" that strongly suggests the partition table is going to be
> > updated *now* rather than near the end of the install process as it's
> > historically been.
> >
> >   is that what's happening?  is there a reason this has been changed?
> > it was always pretty convenient to know you could bail on an install
> > really late.  but now, it looks like you're committed to it much
> > earlier.
>
> I suspect your memory is in error.  The installation process puts
> files on the disk partitions.  Those partitions must be created and
> initialized before anything can be copied to them.
>
> Bob S.

actually, no, it's just that this install process was so much shorter
than what i'm used to that it seemed weird to get to the actual
install part so quickly.  my fault, sorry about the noise.

rday

p.s.  by "the end of the install process", i actually meant the end of
manual intervention, after which i can just walk away and let the
files be installed.  so, no, i'm not *really* as dumb as that question
might have suggested.  :-P


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