On Sunday 20 March 2016 04:54:20 Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:21:58 +0000 > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday 18 March 2016 20:49:55 David Wright wrote: > > > It's far more likely that you forgot to format the partition, if > > > that's indeed what you wanted to do. > > > > No. I checked and double checked that the partitions on the disk > > which I wanted to use for installation were all marked with the F > > for format, and that nothing on the disk it had been told to leave > > alone had an F. It kept wanting to format the spare disk's swap, > > which I did not want. > > Why not? You wanted to carry over the swap created by a previous > installation?
Doing that, leaving a potentially dirty swap for a new install? No sensible reason to do so, format that puppy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
