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?
Thanks,
Mike Chambers
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, mike@miketc.net 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?
Can customise it yourself, or let it automatically do it.
-c
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 18:27:03 -0600, mike@miketc.net 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.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
And you probably can't break it up into multiple partitions as well.
Do you mean not being able to have separate / and /home partitions? If so, I think that is incorrect. I have F13 XFCE and F14 XFCE on my workstation and ThinkPad with separate partitions for /home. As far as I recall I installed both from Live USBs.
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 23:15:22 -0800, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
And you probably can't break it up into multiple partitions as well.
Do you mean not being able to have separate / and /home partitions? If so, I think that is incorrect. I have F13 XFCE and F14 XFCE on my workstation and ThinkPad with separate partitions for /home. As far as I recall I installed both from Live USBs.
/home starts out empty so that should be doable. Splitting out directories that aren't empty (e.g. /usr) isn't going to work.
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 20:46 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 18:27:03 -0600, mike@miketc.net 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.
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:27:03PM -0600, mike@miketc.net 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?
It depends which option you choose during your system installation.
Thanks,
Mike Chambers
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