On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:39, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:35 -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:25, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:10 -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > > > > I am working on getting my FC2 build released, but I am worried about > > > > the problem with dual-booting Windows that I have seen. Is there any > > > > way to get the legacy partitioning info for the installer without any > > > > manual intervention? Are there any updates for the > > > > kernel/parted/anaconda that would remedy this problem? > > > > > > I still have yet to reproduce the problem. If you have a way to > > > reliably reproduce it and are willing to test, there's some work going > > > on in upstream parted to try to make it a non-issue. As it stands right > > > now, I'm following the discussion and it seems sane, but I can't do much > > > in the way of testing. If I have someone who can reproduce and who will > > > test, it's easy enough for me to make an updates.img with an updated > > > libparted that will get used. > > > > Really? I thought that it was an issue for everyone. I haven't had > > time to even test it with Windows yet--I thought I'd get a fix first and > > test that. I'll see if I can reliably reproduce the problem and then > > I'll test libparted. Anaconda grabs the libparted from the installation > > tree during buildinstall, doesn't it? I can also test a newer parted > > with buildinstall. > > It would be far easier if it were an issue for everyone ;-) My new > laptop came with XP pre-installed and I happily shrunk the partition and > everything worked without any problems at all. The libparted gets > pulled from the package tree, yes, but I haven't built a CVS parted > package yet. You can if you'd like (or my offer definitely stands of > making an updates.img) Yes, I'd like to see an updates.img (for those who don't rebuild from the tree), as well as a CVS parted package. Speaking of shrinking XP--how did you shrink the NTFS partition? I was thinking of adding ntfsresize-static to the build and allowing users to shrink the NTFS/FAT32 partitions if they existed. Thoughts? Forrest
