[Fedora-livecd-list] pilgrim livecd work
Jasper Hartline
jasperhartline at adelphia.net
Wed Sep 20 22:35:59 UTC 2006
Antonio Olivares wrote:
>Ok. Good luck partitioning a disk in any sort of way with Yum.
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>Sorry to come in,
>But you can use another livecd to partition the disk (gparted,systemrescue,knoppix,etc) and pre-partition it and then use the new livecd and just install it to a preformatted partition, ext2,ext3, etc. Anyway with Anaconda, one cannot resize NTFS partitions, we still another type of cd to perform these actions.
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This is hardly desireable to millions of potential new users.
They won't know how to use gparted, or fdisk or mke2fs.
Anaconda fits this niche completely and is also a familiar installer
interface.
J. Hartline
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