Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can
boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to
boot to one cylinder of a disk drive.
Feel free to file a wishlist bug report against partman-base with a request
to support this, but I doubt we'll make a priority issue out of it.
Please add some solid rationale why you think it should be sopported.
From your original message I still understand that you don't actually want
to install to hdd, but only use existing data there. What's the reason you
cannot just add it to /etc/fstab after the installation has been completed?
I do want to install to /dev/hdd. That one cylinder of space isn't
crucial, so after I get the data off the thing I'll just partition it
and use /dev/hdd1 to save myself the hassle. But I didn't see any reason
this would be an issue when I wiped my old install to put XP on it to
switch to the current release of Debian in the other drive, so all I did
was make a directory and move everything into it, so I could just
install Debian around it.
It's just a matter if principle at this point, since existing tools are
my only option. I doubt many others on the planet would even do this; I
just like to do what's simplest for me, and makes the most sense
logically. Kind of a cleansing ritual against modern commercial
operating systems when I switch back into my GNU stuff.
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