On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 10/06/2018 à 04:01, Haines Brown a écrit : > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > >>Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > >> > >>>In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a primary > >>>partition that is bootable and the mount point /. > >>You probably want to set this partition to unused (or whatever it's > > called, it's a looong time since I last did this) so that it doesn't > > appear in the mount point table (eventually in fstab of the new > > install). I think what you are telling it is that you want sda1 to > > mounted as / IN THIS INSTALLATION and that then clashes with your new > > / (on sdc) that you're trying to install to.
> In the partitionner (which is not only a partitionner, but generates the > fstab and the filesystems), you should select "dont use the partition" on > every partition which is not in sdc. Click on "use partition as" and > select "dont use the partition". Didier, that seems to have done the trick. I apologize for having been too hasty. Where the partitioner asks what to use a partition as, because the top options were simply file systems, I interpreted it to be merely for selecting file system and did not notice the "don't use" option at the bottom. When I marked sda partitions not to be used, I was able to save the sdc partition table and proceed with the installation. Now that installation of ascii 2.0 on sdc is underway and before going further I must figure out how to recover a use of partitions on sda. I assume that were I to use the menu to revert to partitioning and restore usage of sda partitions I'll just end up with the same problem of a competition of sda and sdc for use of /. When I execute a shell toward the end of installation, can I use it to run the command "parted /dev/sda set 1 boot on" both to enable sda1 and to make it bootable at the same time? Would the command "parted /dev/sda set 2 on" simply re-enable the second partition? I found the parted manual unclear on this point. Haines _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
