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[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 08 August 2016 05:27:29 Colin Law wrote:

> On 8 August 2016 at 10:20, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > With todays installers, how can you make it use an already prepared,
> > labeled and formatted disk? Thats a trick I have never seen done.
>
> When asked where to install select "Something Else" then you can
> choose what you want with each partition.  If you leave the Format
> checkbox unticked it will not format that partition.

But it still refuses to recognize a prepared disk, and you are still 
forced to rewrite the parttition table, and may wind up with /boot being 
850 gigs into the terabyte disk, and out of reach of the machines bios 
to reboot to at the end of the install.

> Colin

I have done that Colin, every ubuntu install I have ever done starting 
with 6-04 LTS. And become stuck in a loop, which it would not let me out 
of until I gave up, restarted, and let it do as it pleased on the 4th or 
5th try. I have prepared a new disk with gparted, and the *buntu 
installer can't see it as anything but an unformatted, unpartitioned 
drive.

IMNSHO thats BS, and the *buntu installer therefore is broken. So when 
linuxcnc migrated to wheezy, that installer at least let me partition it 
the way I wanted it. So all 4 machines in my home network are running 
debian wheezy, very happily I might add.

Something that Just Works(TM), day in, day out is a very welcome breath 
of fresh air.  Sure its an oddball setup, with a pinned RTAI patched 
kernel, but it does the job I need it to do very well indeed.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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