... but should then realise that this requires a reboot to reread the partition table.
I recently wanted to install a laptop that couldn't detect the cdrom drive after boot, so I followed the hard drive instructions and used grub to boot the installer from a windows partition on the same hard disk. It would be useful to have the partitioner let you do this, as it provides an extra bootstrapping procedure that may allow you to install on something that you otherwise couldn't. AIUI there is no harm in partitioning whilst a partition is mounted as long as you don't touch that partition, it's just that the kernel does not reread the partition table in this case. In my case the mkfses failed, of course, but simply rebooting and skipping partitioning worked fine. Cheers, Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
