On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 21:56 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2013 8:33 PM, "lee" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > the installation program gives you everything you need to have an > > > operational system; after you have it installed: > > > > > > fdisk > > > > > > is the command to create your much needed / loved partitions that > the > > > installer did not. > > > > Well ok, in that case you may be better off running fdisk /before/ > > installing so that you can install the system onto the partitions > you > > want right away. The installer --- since it comes as part of a live > > system --- gives you everything you need for that. > > > > The question is whether you can get it to use the partitions you > > created. That was difficult enough even without RAID or LVM. > > > > In case I want to install more distributions or a fallback Fedora, I > > need to tell their installers again where to install what. A > universal > > partitioning tool could save me that. > > > > > > -- > > Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) > > -- > > There is no real difference between pre-installation and disk / > cfdisk, and all post-partitions are as usable as pre-install work. > > Why question it? If you are interested in what I see as unnecesary > partitions, just do it. > > You are asking the wrong person. I quit worrying about > pre-partitioning a 15 years ago because there is no reason to do it > anymore. The installer gives the user all that person requires. > > If you really care, please email Adam Williamson for a more complete > explanation. > > Go watch some YouTube videos on partitioning in Linux? > The installer does not know GPT without LVM, so you need Gparted. C. Sava -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
