On Sunday 10 June 2018 20:23:49 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > > the /dev/sdc slot. > > > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, > > /, and swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other drive > > currently mounted, and 2; use the partitions I've already setup on > > this new drive without arguing with me. > > > > and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives > > hooked up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data > > from the other drives. > > > > How do I best achieve that? > > > > Thanks a bunch. > > 1 and 2 are simply a matter of giving the sensible answers to the > appropriate questions from the installer. I can't remember exactly > what the options are called but there is an expert partition mode that > allows you to partition the disk how you want and I'd use that to > verify the partitions are as you want and not change anything, map the > parts of the filesystem you want to go on each partition in the > installer, then continue. > > If you don't tell it to install anything to the other disks then it > won't. > > For 3, I think I need to defer to the grub experts, not sure if you > will have to preseed your install or if there is an easier way. > > Mark
Thanks Mark. Are there any grub guru's about for question #3? -- 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>
