On 8 Feb 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:27, ext Bill Crawford wrote: ... > > I've not been able to get this to work. It launches OK (and I'm > > quite impressed with the speed and whatnot of it running under the > > real X server and not on the framebuffer) but then bombs out after > > it gets to the "partitioning" dialog ... should that not be skipped > > when I've specified a root to install to? > It still tries to *read* the partition tables on each drive you have > present so you'll need to run it as root. It'd be nice to have at least > a command line switch to turn the whole partitioning code off for these > kind of purposes... I want to run as non-root because I'm running it on a system I use for all my work here. I daren't break it. I only have one working box at home, too, so it's pretty much critical I don't damage it. I'll have another poke aroung in Anaconda to see if I can switch this off. Or add YAOTDTDB (yet another option to disable the default behaviour :o) > - Panu - -- Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, GTS Netcom work: bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, home: billc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx if (! (awake & TASK_RUNNABLE)) return -ENOCAFFEINE;
