On Wednesday 13 November 2019 05:35:10 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 02:25, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Quite a disappointing evening. > > > > That doesn't bode well for a speedy wintel buster version of > > linuxcnc. > > No, the incompetence of the guy trying to work out how to build .iso > files does seem likely to be a problem. > > Basically the installers only know how to reformat and use the whole > disk, or go to a manual process where it isn't a all clear what you > need to do to persuade the installer to use empty space or an existing > partition.
I've noticed that, so I have only installed on fresh disks, and with SSD's plenty big enough for lcnc under 50 bucks, its not been a big drag here. Considerable faster, they can sure rejuvenate some old hardware. > From reading the internet it appears that there might be an automatic > option to install "alongside" an existing Windows installation, but it > doesn't seem to offer the option to install alongside an existing > Linux. > > I imagine that there is some combination of boot flags, file system > and mount-point that will mark a partition as "use this" but I didn't > find it before messing everything up completely with an LVM(?) using > the first partition where the existing OS was. Ouch. IMExperience LVM has been a case of Alfreds Finest with a fuse length of hours, Then it destroys all. But that was back in my fedora days when analog tv was king yet. I got tired of being a lab rat for red hats bad dreams. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
