Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb

[Kam Leo]

On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings, here comes YARADD (Yet Another Rant About Disk Druid) or
> > whatever that beast is called now.
> >
> > Howinhell do I use it to do absolutely nothing more to /dev/hdb, which I
> > have already partitioned the way *I* want it, based on the useage
> > pattern I already have on /dev/hda, but to simply remember the mount
> > points name for the construction of /etc/fstab?
> >
> > I want to do an install onto /dev/hdb, and when its done, just move the
> > stuff in /dev/hdb1 (/boot) over to /dev/hda1(/boot) edit the grub.conf
> > and do a dual boot setup.  Or maybe even just edit the entries in
> > grub.conf to point at (hd1:0) for the rest of the FC5 boot.
> >
> > >From the text screen this so-called disk configurator makes it rather
> > hard to assure one that its dealing with the partition you selected
> > from the list as anytime you press ok, /dev/hda comes back up
> > highlighted.  Thats damned poor form IMO, it should revert to
> > highlighting the partition being addresssed at the moment.
> >
> > So how can I bypass this "thing from hell" and get to actually doing the
> > install, and do it where I want it?
> ----
> I am confused just trying to read what you are talking about but I am
> gathering that you don't know what you are doing and will put yourself
> in a world of hurt here since it may very well try to 'label' the
> partitions with labels that are already available on /dev/hda
>

No, Craig, the OP is not confused. The text mode UI took a big hit in
usability. The developers need to revert back to the UI used in
previous releasesI. The results would indicate that very little
testing of text mode installation was perform outside of the
developers group.

> Suggestion...don't be lazy. Disconnect /dev/hda and plug the drive you
> want to install into master and complete the install, then switch them
> back, boot from /dev/hda and then fix grub the way you want
>
> Craig
>
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