On 01/23/2013 06:54 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
It's exactly that. It doesn't "move" it, though, but reuses it. I also used a shared /home, and since it's listed for the other recognized "Linux" installations, I unfold one of those and fill in the mount-point at the right side of the screen.
Can you tell the new anaconda not to mount that partition at all? If so, it shouldn't format it either. (Always back everything up first, JIC!) Then, after installation and reboot, firstboot will start. Before creating your first normal user, go to an alternate terminal and log in (of course) as root. Edit fstab to add that partition and use mount -a to reprocess fstab. Exit and go back to firstboot. Yes, this is a disgusting kludge, but it does look like it will work around the glaring bug in anaconda.
BTW, has this problem (not being allowed to exclude a mounted partition from formatting) been reported to bugzilla? If not, it should be and if so, everybody on this list who's been caught by it should add comments. Yes, I understand that a large number of comments on a bug report isn't enough by itself to get it fixed sooner[1], but if the severity of the bug is high enough it can't hurt. If nothing else, whoever's responsible for anaconda won't be able to say that nobody complained about it.
[1]There's one alacarte bug with several hundred comments. The only "fix" for it suggested was to manually patch the program and the patch didn't work! These things happen, and it's not like alacarte's a high-priority issue.
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