On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:55, ext Bill Crawford wrote: > 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. Yup.. know the feeling :) > > 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) Another way of course is to give yourself read access to /dev/hda & friends. - Panu -
