partitioning bug during install: RH8/9 FC1

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Trae McCombs
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:51 PM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: partitioning bug during install: RH8/9 FC1
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:39, David Kewley wrote:
> 
> > I generally install Windows first, so it gets the first partition.  Then
> I
> > install RHL/FC.  Of course the Disk Druid doesn't touch the Windows
> > partition during Linux install, so Windows stays [h,s]da1.
> >
> 
> I rarely actually use windows, I just typically like to keep the
> /dev/hda1 partition there in case I need to dump windows on it. With the
> big drives one can get these days, it doesn't hurt to have 10 gigs
> laying around doing nothing.
> 
> > If you could create the first partition before running the Linux
> install,
> > that might do the trick for you.  If you don't want to install Windows
> > first (why not? it works great for me), then perhaps you could use some
> > other tool to create the first partiion before running the Linux
> install.
> >
> 
> Yeah, what I have to do is a minimal install to /dev/hda1 and then
> reinstall to /dev/hda2 and just mount /dev/hda1 as /windows at that
> point.  Heh, not quite a nice solution.  The silly drive names shouldn't
> change when you specify what you want them to be the first time around.
> It's a bug for sure, but I think it's a RH/FC1 bug that needs to be
> fixed.
> 
> > The Disk Druid partition ordering doesn't seem to be driven purely by
> size
> > on my home RHL9 box (keep in mind that I created the NTFS & FAT32
> > partitions before installing RHL9):
> >
> 
> Yeah, if there is something on the disk, or partitions already
> pre-existing, you are golden, as it won't touch data if there is
> something there. I'm talking about completely free space on an unused
> drive.
> 
> >
> > > PS. Why did we stop including regular fdisk?  It's nice to be able to
> > > use this tool from time to time.  Just put a button with "Experts
> Only"
> > > or something and pop up a warning telling people they are entering a
> > > world of hurt if they don't know what they are doing with the fdisk
> > > tool.
> >
> > Not a big priority to me, but I'd like to see the return of fdisk during
> > install, too.
> >
> 
> *grin*  Nice to know I'm not the only one who misses it.
> 
> > David
> >
> >
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Throwing this out here for thought.  I don't think the partitioning label
has anything to do with size, but with whether it is a boot partition or
not.  If you install windows into whatever size partition first and then
install RH/FC1 the windows partition will be hda1, but if you just create a
partition and then install RH/FC1 then it will label the boot partition as
hda1.  Just a thought.