My first impressions of the GUInstaller are very favourable as far as I have gone (up to partitioning) but was unable to select a suitable install partition without an overview of the machine configuration in paragraph 3, below.
Any chance of displaying partition labels (as in gnome partition manager for example) in the graphical installer. It helps guard possible partition bloomers!! For historical reasons which are not relevant, I have a machine with 4 disks; 2 IDE (hda hdb)and 2 sata (sda sdb). There is swap space ~1GB on each of hda, sda and sdb. I have sdb partitioned with 3 primary and an extended partition with 11 logical volumes formatted with ext3 (SCSI max. 15 partitions). When I set / (root) as say /sdbx in manual partitioning mode with any combination (including none) of swap partitions (whether swap formatting is selected or not), the partitioner says that hdb sda and sdb partition tables will be modified. What I want to know is whether swaps by uuid, label etc. of coexisting linux distributions will be disturbed by choosing no swap and keeping (K) the (nascent) ext3 root. It's just so inconvenient to have to chase the uuids through the multiboot environment. Why would the partition tables for hdb sda and sdb be changed if their corresponding swaps were not used?? The only change would be to the sdb partition table to set /sdbx as / (and maybe a label on /sdbx for convenience) formatting being unnecessary in this case. I have not written the partition selections to disk yet as I am uncertain as to what the outcome will be viz a viz other current useful coexisting distros. Uncertainly Z K Dabek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
