SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sun December 21 2003 12:28 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/21/03 10:06, Collins wrote:
> > over with my old standby ext3.  When installing with an existing linux
> > partition, SUSE always leaves the existing root intact and picks install
> > to any empty partition if it exists.  The only way I could find to
> > overwrite my existing root was to delete the empty partition.  There
> > might be a way around this, but it certainly was not obvious.  System
> > rebuilt ok, and no further problems using ext3, even though I've
> > added/deleted partitions several times.
>
> I'd be very surprised if any distribution did this.
>
> The general assumption is that if you have a formatted partition, you
> want to keep the data, not overwrite it.

Collins:

To re-use old partitions, just don't let SuSE do any partition work... use the 
'expert' mode and you can tell it which partitions to mount where, which ones 
to format (or not), and what file system to use.   And you can also tell it 
to make mount points for partitions that aren't involved in the install.

Essentially, do anything you want with partitions.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         12/21/03 19:53  +
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