On Monday 26 October 2015 03:57:53 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-10-26 03:31 (UTC-0400): > > Martin Str|mberg wrote: > >> Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot > >> a live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting the > >> installer and then you should be able to tell the installer to just > >> use the partitions without any repartitioning. > > > > The key phrase is "should be able to tell it to use what it finds", > > applying only mount point labels. I have not been allowed to do so > > by any linux installer over the last 7 or 8 years. > > Except with Fedora, I can't remember having any such difficulty in > that period. Last I remember elsewhere it was much longer ago. I may > have encountered it elsewhere since, but not remembered because > aborted and abandoned attempt to use any such antagonistic distro. > > I do find it disturbing that *buntu and other debian > partitioners/installers find it necessary, when no partitions are to > be resized, moved, created or deleted, which is always the case here > during an installation, to rewrite valid extended partition table > entries that cause other partitioners to find fault with partition > sizes and/or alignments. In all these cases, the first > post-installation process I'm faced with is deleting and recreating > the first logical, purely to fix that brokenness and make the error > messages go away.
I thought I was the only one. When I posted, bitching about it, I was repeatedly told that it was I who was doing it wrong. I'll admit old habits die hard since I've been exclusively linux since Dec 1997. And I didn't come to linux from windows, I was all Amiga or CoCo. Then linuxcnc switched to a wheezy build for their install image about a year back, and until the 2 terabyte disk with 4k sectors became the commodity drive, it just worked. Now we're back to fighting with old bios's unless we setup a small boot partition on the outside edge of the disk. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
