On Fri, February 29, 2008 5:18 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > 2008/2/29 Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Lan Barnes wrote: >> >> >> This behavior is due to a kernel change in Linux. Why not try >> Ubuntu >> >> 7.10? AFAIK, it doesn't do any of the above listed. >> > >> > Does Ubuntu not update its kernel? >> >> >> Ubuntu does the same things (at least regarding HDD naming). > > Backtracking through a whole bunch of interesting discussion, the > original complaint included: > >> "improvements" in HDD handling (LVM, sliding partitions, VOLUME0000-*, >> everything "/dev/sdx") that are OK until something goes wrong (and >> something always goes wrong). To me it's like RAID -- why can't I opt >> out? > > You can opt out when installing Fedora.. > > The LVM and VOLUME0000 stuff happens if you wimp out and let the > Anaconda installer choose its default disk partitioning scheme. > Several other distributions (openSuSE, Ubuntu) do similar nasty things > with their default partitioner. I have been trying to warn people > about this for a couple of years, at least. >
Aha!! "WARN"!! I'm _not_ so stupid! Thank you, Carl. Lan "sometimes a grump, sometimes a Luddite, always insecure" Barnes > So at install time don't choose default partitioning, and do it > yourself, to taste. If you _do_ want LVM, you don't have to use the > kludged-up volume names that Anaconda wants to give you. > I usually select text/custom and set it up myself. The alternative is to toggle into the shell provided and use fdisk, which I'm comfortable with (thank god). -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
