"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
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> 4. I did not have a really good experience with the Mandrake 7.0
> installation process; this is really a number of related items:
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> a) The disk partitioner was very pretty, but it was perfectly happy to
> allow me to create *overlapping* partitions; in particular, I had two
> large partitions (/usr and /home) at the end of the disk and then I
> changed my mind and decided I wanted to split /usr/local off from /usr,
> so I delete /usr and made two separate partitions there. By going "out
> of order" like this I seemed to defeat its intelligence about
> reasonable partition sizes, and I accidentally created partitions
> which, as I noticed later, overlapped. I went back and played with it,
> I could get them to overlap by dozens of cylinders; it just doesn't
> seem to check for this at all.
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> <<civilme assures me that this was fixed ever before real Mandrake 7
> shipped and was only on the Macmillan disk like this. On this basis, I
> did not report this one.>>
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Well, I for one can tell you that the disk partitioner is NOT fixed in
7.0-2, as I found my freshly created partitions were reported as being
overlapping. I had a deal of trouble finding a combination that would
partition without errors. I have not reported it, and am reluctant to trash
my system so that I can duplicate the problem to properly document it.
Trevor
