why is disk partitioning finalized so early in the install?

Styma, Robert E (Robert) stymar at alcatel-lucent.com
Wed Feb 13 19:37:17 UTC 2008


 > Subject: why is disk partitioning finalized so early in the install?
> 
> 
>   my apologies for what might be a few more silly questions but, in
> my current install, i'm seeing a new dialog "Writing partitioning to
> disk" that strongly suggests the partition table is going to be
> updated *now* rather than near the end of the install process as it's
> historically been.
> 
>   is that what's happening?  is there a reason this has been changed?
> it was always pretty convenient to know you could bail on an install
> really late.  but now, it looks like you're committed to it much
> earlier.

I suspect your memory is in error.  The installation process puts files
on the disk partitions.  Those partitions must be created and
initialized
before anything can be copied to them.

Bob S.




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