Re: Ananconda

2013-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 19:12 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a > distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it & apart > from destroying the existing partition with GParted there see

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-23 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 09/23/2013 01:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: How about the reuse of btrfs subvolumes? It is possible to reuse btrfs subvolumes for mount points other than root. Root requires a new subvolume. It seems to me that the only way to do that is t

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: >> > How about the reuse of btrfs subvolumes? It is possible to reuse btrfs subvolumes for mount points other than root. Root requires a new subvolume. > It seems to me that the only way to do that is to delete the subvolume and > then real

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-23 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a distro > already present on the target machine. I've studied it & apart from > destroying the existing partition with GParted there se

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-23 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 09/23/2013 11:44 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 09/21/2013 02:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sep 21, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a distro already present on the target machine. It may not be able to

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-23 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 09/21/2013 02:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sep 21, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a distro already present on the target machine. It may not be able to identify the partitions making up a distro

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-21 Thread poma
On 21.09.2013 20:30, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:12:41 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a >> distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it &

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-21 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:12:41 +0200, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a > distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it & > apart from destroying the existing partition with GParted there > seems to be no ot

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 21, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a distro > already present on the target machine. It may not be able to identify the partitions making up a distro installation. But it does have m

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:12:41 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a > distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it & apart > from destroying the existing partition with GParted there

Ananconda

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it & apart from destroying the existing partition with GParted there seems to be no other way (this happens on 18 & 19). Most painful it is. I