On 2011/10/17 20:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 21:09 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I always partition and format prior to beginning any Linux distro >> installation. "Formatting" for this purpose includes formatting as many as >> multiples of months or years prior, and simply deleting system directory >> trees, like bin, sys, usr, etc, and preserving the partition's filesystem >> type, compatible inode size, UUID, fsck age and device label for >> compatibility with the other installed systems on the machine. It also >> includes leaving selected config and data files behind so that they are >> maximally handy for customizing the initial installation on first boot. If >> the quote above means I can't do this any more, it means I'm done with any >> not already installed Fedora releases. :-( > Yes, that is what it means. We can't sensibly expect to be able to > reliably install to a root partition with data on it. This is the only place I can remember encountering such an installation restriction. My 40 or so machines average in excess of 6 OSes per. There's just no room for a forced procedural deviation of this magnitude in my environment. Even Windows allows to install to an existing partition without formatting it. It just overwrites whatever it pleases, which I can, have been, and do accept. Other distros apparently have no problem doing the same, and without disposing of entire directory trees as Anaconda has. Its name is apt. > I'm sorry if this is inconvenient, but it does seem a bit over the top > to issue an ultimatum like that. You can't always expect every cool I simply stated some facts. I've been doing what I've been doing many years. It works to save me time, easing the post-installation pain, so there's no other compelling reason for me to change. It'll free up time to spend on friendlier and more flexible installers that don't require 150% of average minimum RAM just to initialize, and to spend the time necessary to relearn everything I knew about sysvinit that systemd scattered to the four winds. > little hack you come up with to keep working forever, it's just not the > nature of the beast. There are many other ways to do this kind of > provisioning, often more robust and well engineered; why not use one of > those? For instance? > I'm trying to think of the name of that Fedora-y one with some > sort of 'orange' theme... I've always found Anaconda to be the among the least friendly, and virtually the least flexible Linux installer of all I've used, so now I can just forget about it altogether, absent actual rationale why this unconditional limitation is justified that might change my mind. If that was posted here, I missed it. I only just spotted it today from this thread's subject. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
