Ok,thanks for the update. I went ahead and reported this one, too.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| "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.
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| Trevor
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