On Sun Oct 24 1999 at 12:03, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Subject: Re: How to lose partitions with RH 6.1: a Mini-HOWTO
(Time for a change in the stubject line)
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Chuck Mead wrote:
>
> > <extremely painful history deleted>
> >
> > As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they
> > probably won't do this but I just cannot help myself. (Plz note
> > that I have been in your shoes, but not recently.... ~~~~~sigh!).
>
> < Lots of good stuff deleted>
>
> > We *WERE* warned... it's in the book! (fortunately I did not lose
> > the corporate database, just my entire Inbox). ~~~~~~~sigh!
Putting the warnings there is just not enough. It needs to be in the
installer itself with a big flashing WARNING page that clearly tells
the user what is about to happen and if they really want to go ahead
and let it be done.
> Don't you just hate it when the docs are correct!! I almost did the
> same thing with 6.0 but I saw the warnings.!!
One thing that I would very much like to see are "Server" and
"Workstation" installation options given within the "Custom"
installation option.
Sounds weird, but it makes it much more useful:
- choose a "Custom" installation.
- do all the partitioning stuff etc (fdisk or disk drongo)
- choose what partitions will be mounted and where
- choose packages:
- take the Server install packages
- take the Workstations install packates
- either of the above, but customised
- choose your own (but given the base packages as checked by
default to be installed)
Might need a sanity check before going ahead from here to ensure that
the partitioning will work with what has been chosen, but this sort of
strategy sounds really good to me.
Like other people have stated, I have some major reservations about
the "Workstation" and "Server" installation options... they
unconditionally reformat all partitions (except for non-ext2 in the
case of the workstation installtion). Moreover, disk drongo will do
what I consider to be very silly and somewhat useless things with the
partition tables.
No no no! This makes the Workstation and Server options totally
useless to me, except on boxes with brand new hard drives. And even
then I won't use them (because of what disk drongo does).
What if I want to put the installation onto a specific drive, or I
have, eg, /home/ data on a linux partition and I want to keep it
there? Bad luck mate, it's all gone - no questions asked.
To make these options far more useful, some control needs to be given
over where these installs will go. What I have suggested here would
add this functionality at very little cost.
Cheers
Tony
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