On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:55:55 -0400 Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 10/06/2018 à 04:01, Haines Brown a écrit : > > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > > >>Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>>In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a > > >>>primary partition that is bootable and the mount point /. > > >>You probably want to set this partition to unused (or whatever > > >>it's > > > called, it's a looong time since I last did this) so that it > > > doesn't appear in the mount point table (eventually in fstab of > > > the new install). I think what you are telling it is that you > > > want sda1 to mounted as / IN THIS INSTALLATION and that then > > > clashes with your new / (on sdc) that you're trying to install to. > > > In the partitionner (which is not only a partitionner, but > > generates the fstab and the filesystems), you should select "dont > > use the partition" on every partition which is not in sdc. Click on > > "use partition as" and select "dont use the partition". > > Didier, that seems to have done the trick. I apologize for having been > too hasty. Where the partitioner asks what to use a partition as, > because the top options were simply file systems, I interpreted it to > be merely for selecting file system and did not notice the "don't > use" option at the bottom. When I marked sda partitions not to be > used, I was able to save the sdc partition table and proceed with the > installation. > > Now that installation of ascii 2.0 on sdc is underway and before going > further I must figure out how to recover a use of partitions on sda. I > assume that were I to use the menu to revert to partitioning and > restore usage of sda partitions I'll just end up with the same > problem of a competition of sda and sdc for use of /. > > When I execute a shell toward the end of installation, can I use it to > run the command "parted /dev/sda set 1 boot on" both to enable sda1 > and to make it bootable at the same time? Would the command > "parted /dev/sda set 2 on" simply re-enable the second partition? I > found the parted manual unclear on this point. > I am fairly sure you will need to set up grub2 to do this, try reading this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252936/grub2-boot-to-a-second-another-hard-disk Or failing that, google for the answer ;-) Rowland _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
