SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Collins]

On Sunday 21 December 2003 16:55, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.

Cool, I somehow missed that option in my haste to get around the reiserfs 
failure.

-- 
Collins