partitioning bug during install: RH8/9 FC1

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Trae McCombs
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:46 AM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: partitioning bug during install: RH8/9 FC1
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 02:12, David Kewley wrote:
> 
> > As for pre-allocating the Windows partition, without actually installing
> > Windows, there's no need to do something as involved as putting a
> minimal
> > RHL/FC installation on hda1.  Just boot from the RHL/FC CD 1 as "linux
> > rescue", then use fdisk to create hda1 as partition type 7. :)  Then
> reboot
> > with CD 1 as normal to install RHL/FC.
> 
> Hi again David,
> 
> I'm well aware of various methods of work-around techniques, such as the
> one you mention.  I use them often for the current partitioning tool is
> broken.  The problem is the tool should work right without having to do
> a work-around.  That is the bug I'd like to report.  One shouldn't have
> to utilize other tools to simply setup his hard drive the way he wants
> during install.  The installation system should provide the tool to get
> the job done.  And if someone wants to do:
> 
> /dev/hda1 /foo
> /dev/hda2 /
> /dev/hda3 swap
> 
> Then, they shouldn't have to use other tools to do so.  It shouldn't
> matter what any of the slices are doing.  If I wanted to simply have the
> above hard drive partitioning structure, it should just work without
> re-swaping things around and making /  /dev/hda1 when I don't want it to
> be.  Even if I wanted /dev/hda1 to be FreeBSD, or something else... I
> shouldn't have to install FreeBSD first.  Nor should I have to install
> Windows first, or do the aforementioned work-around.
> 
> It's a simple thing here, not some big complicated setup. :)  Or am I
> completely missing something.
> 
> Trae
> 
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> 
> 
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Installing windows first actually has nothing to do with your problem, but
is a problem with windows.  If you don't install it first then it will
simply overwrite any mbr out there with its own, so if you want to boot your
other OSes you have to install windows first.  As for the other thing.  It
has to do with the boot process, it will resequence your partitions no
matter what you do and it has always done so, it will resequence any
partition unless it is a boot partition.