Re: Live CD install

[Mike Chambers]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 20:46 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 18:27:03 -0600,
>   [e-mail] wrote:
> > When  you boot up a live cd and go to "install to hard drive", does it do
> > it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it
> > yourself?
>
> There are some limits. Because of the trick used to quickly install the
> file system you don't get to pick the file system type. It is whatever
> was on the live image. (I think recent ones use ext4 now, but otherwise
> it will be ext3.) And you probably can't break it up into multiple
> partitions as well.

It gave me the option to customize my partitions, pretty much like doing
a fresh install.  It gave me what I was looking for.