On Friday 18 February 2005 09:17, Joel wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:30:23 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:27, Joel Fenwick wrote: > There are active bugs in bts where the geometry changes for no > apparent reason. I was just being paranoid.
These have been fixed with the latest version of libparted a couple of weeks ago. > > > There doesn't seem to be a clear way to "Leave the partitions alone > > > but mount this one as /". It seemed as if "You didn't modify the > > > partition table so you can't go on". > > > > You always have to format your / partition, but there is absolutely > > no requirement to change partition layout. > > Then why is there a question (if the drive is not empty) asking if you > are sure if you want to install on a non empty disk? [I forget the > exact wording] That message is shown _because_ you did not indicate the / partition should be formatted. It is a warning that you are doing that is quite probable not correct. > Also I could be wrong but I think the diaglogs are phrased like "write > changes to partition table". Now if I haven't changed the table my > first answer is always "no the table is fine as it is". > If this is true the dialog is misleading. The dialog is something like "will format your partitions and write _any_ changes to the partition table". "Any" means that if you did not change anything that affect the partition table, nothing will be written to it. > > That is probably caused by the fact that you did not finish > > partitioning properly. If you decide not to use essential parts of > > the system, you should be prepared to deal with breakage. > > Hmm true but unhelpful. :-( > There is no indication anywhere that i could see that partitioning a > disk is a dependency for having a properly populated fstab. Further it How else do you expect the installation system to know how you want your filesystems mounted if not from the partitioner? > does not explain why when I told the system where my cdrom device was > (the first time it asked) it did not record this info. > > Thanks > Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]