Hi Eric, I was tired when I wrote the note below. gparted, shows you the disk layouts. It allows you to more a slider to change partition sizes, and to select formats.
Now, consider a Gparted interface driving an interface to anaconda. On a multi-disk partition you could really place the /boot /home /opt swap, etc exactly where you want. Gparted allows you to reestablish the mbr before grub2 installation. You can select the partition table structure from a list. Why not merge use of a gui interface to drive anaconda or the equivalent. Regards Leslie --- On Sun, 8/12/12, Eric P. <[email protected]> wrote: From: Eric P. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] debian install problem: land in grub rescue on reboot To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 2:55 PM On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:54:18PM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > I had very minor issue with anaconda, and filed a bug report. I also asked > them to review gparted, to show the graphical layout of existing partition > space and to allow me to click on the boot, root , swap and location for the > loader. Sigh, I wonder if it will come to pass. I have no idea what you're saying. The bootloader doesn't reside on boot/root/swap... support files (further stages) reside on /boot and potentially on grub_bios partition if you're doing more complicated gpt multi-boot... as I tend to be doing on my personal machines these days. > Yes, Anaconda is great, when you get over the shock of the summary screen > that presents a lot of information. But how I work with anaconda is very easy. Partitioning in this day and age can be definitely be quite complicated but why ubuntu default installer can't handle raid + encryption out of the box, I do not know. So yes, anaconda can be complicated but you don't have to select custom layout options if you don't need. > By the way, if you want to protect a partition, allocate it with unknown file > format. It will be protected from Anaconda. > Life is easy when you know the tricks. > The Ubuntu guys can tell you a similar story. My point wasn't about knowing tricks it was about the ubuntu live installer not having the appropriate options for me to do a true custom gpt plus raid plus crypto partitioning setup, and having to resort to the alternate installer to get what features I needed. Super annoying when you're in a hotel room, at a conference with crappy internet and lack blank media. The Fedora folks haven't dumbed down the installer enough yet, clearly. (<-- sarcasm) -E _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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