Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 1:36 am, Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:45, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> > Now that I have a working system, I went back to the repair option of the
> > installation DVD and found the following, which really seems to confirm
> > that there's a bug here:
> >
> > 1. If you simply enter the partition tool and exit immediately,
> > attempting to change nothing, you get the message
> >
> > Yast needs a root partition to install.  Assign the mount point "/" to a
> > partition.
>
> ??? Why are you insisting on trying to set a mount point from inside the
> partitioning tool when you're running it in an 'aborted
> installation>>repair mode' scenario???

At this point my concern is in determining whether there is a bug here and, if 
so, how to report it.  My own problems have been solved, so they aren't 
relevant.

The insistence on setting a mount point comes from the partition tool, not 
from me.  The message I cited comes in the case where you don't make any 
changes at all -- which I tried since it should be the least stressful use of 
the tool.  If the tool doesn't work in the null case, it's unlikely to work 
in any other case.

Let's look at it another way, Carl.  If the tool has any use at all, there 
must be something that you can do with it.  So whatever that something is, 
just try it and see if you can get it done.  My observation indicates that 
whatever you do, you'll be blocked from saving the results by the message 
above.

And then there's the other issue of the fact that the help on the left (for 
editing a partition) says that you can change anything when in fact you 
cannot.  Either the tool is wrong or the help is wrong.

Paul





>
> When you use tools the wrong way and experience incongruent feedback, don't
> blame the tool.
>
> bye