On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Jice wrote:

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> Le Lundi 10 F�vrier 2003 23:33, Holger Dietze a �crit :
> > Stew Benedict ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 11.02.2003 0:17 Uhr:
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> > > It's really too much mucking around with the diskdrake code to
> > > deal with this type of setup
> 
> what does it rely on ? /proc/partitions ? may be I could have a look in the 
> code...
> 

Partly, you'd have to dig through the perl code under
Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install.  If you come up with a patch good,
but I don't think I'm going to be able to devote any time to it, and I'd
hate to risk breaking what's already there.

> > > It's because your partitions are out of sequence.
> 
> don't know how it happened ! I created them using "hard disk tool" under
> MacOS 9 a long time ago (april 2000 !)
> 
> > There is an option within pdisk to reorder the partitions
> 
> if I use it, won't it destroy my partitions' content ?
> if so, why not doing it automatically at install time so that the installer 
> doesn't get confused ? (but may be the user will get confused if his/her 
> partitions sequence changed...)
> 

I don't think it will destroy them, but I don't know for sure.  I looked
at the man page, and it's not a command line funtion. It has to be done
interactively, so it's not practical to do from the installer.  I suspect
it might require a reboot afterwards also.

> if I don't reorder my partitions, how can I install and have the right thing 
> at the right place ?
> 

I don't know that you can.  Diskdrake sorts them by the partition start
point.

Stew Benedict

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