Gene Heskett composed on 2015-10-26 03:31 (UTC-0400): > Martin Str|mberg wrote:
>> Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot a >> live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting the >> installer and then you should be able to tell the installer to just >> use the partitions without any repartitioning. > The key phrase is "should be able to tell it to use what it finds", > applying only mount point labels. I have not been allowed to do so by > any linux installer over the last 7 or 8 years. Except with Fedora, I can't remember having any such difficulty in that period. Last I remember elsewhere it was much longer ago. I may have encountered it elsewhere since, but not remembered because aborted and abandoned attempt to use any such antagonistic distro. I do find it disturbing that *buntu and other debian partitioners/installers find it necessary, when no partitions are to be resized, moved, created or deleted, which is always the case here during an installation, to rewrite valid extended partition table entries that cause other partitioners to find fault with partition sizes and/or alignments. In all these cases, the first post-installation process I'm faced with is deleting and recreating the first logical, purely to fix that brokenness and make the error messages go away. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
