Oddball schreef:

I will make a prntscrn when i am able to log in root for the yast gui.

Which is not possible, because i have to go into the installer, and at that point i donot have a possibility to print the screen, might be an option to be available also, to be able to use the printscreen button from the keyboard.. ;) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-12-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha3 KDE: 4.00.68 (KDE 4.0.68 >= 20080402) "release 3.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Per Jessen schreef:

Oddball wrote:

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Per Jessen schreef:

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Oddball wrote:

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The partitioninfo should be true, and not vague. I allways have to have all my partitions written down on a piece of paper, to know what is where. This is a lot of unnessesary xtra work, because, the partitioner *knows* what is where, it just don't tells it.

I don't recognise that situation at all - certainly not in openSUSE. Doesn't the partitioner show everything, even including NFS partitions and such?

/Per Jessen, Zürich

It does not tell: /boot, /10.3, /home10.3, / , /home, /10.2, /home10.2, /tmp, /spare, only info about windows is given. It says what filesystem, and the size, name/number of the harddisk, those things. So it knows about the other info also.

Wait - are all of those individual partitions? If the installer somehow doesn't show those under "Custom Partition", it's a bug.

Well, than it has been a bug forever, because i do not know any different. I complained about this many times, nobody told me it had to be otherwise. It tells me what filesystem, and the size and number of these partitions: /dev/sda, dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, dev/sda5, etc up to 13, at this time, name/number of the harddisk, those things, but not the custom name. It says something, which i don't remember now, because it doesn't make any sense anyway..

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Oddball schreef:

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I will make a prntscrn when i am able to log in root for the yast gui.

Which is not possible, because i have to go into the installer, and at that point i donot have a possibility to print the screen, might be an option to be available also, to be able to use the printscreen button from the keyboard.. ;)

I think there is a way to do a screenshot, but I almost always install over ssh, so it's not a problem for me anyway.

/Per Jessen, Zürich

That means you install over the network, from another pc? -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-12-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha3 KDE: 4.00.68 (KDE 4.0.68 >= 20080402) "release 3.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Per Jessen schreef:

Oddball wrote:

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Wait - are all of those individual partitions? If the installer somehow doesn't show those under "Custom Partition", it's a bug.

Well, than it has been a bug forever, because i do not know any different. I complained about this many times, nobody told me it had to be otherwise.

It tells me what filesystem, and the size and number of these partitions: /dev/sda, dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, dev/sda5, etc up to 13, at this time, name/number of the harddisk, those things, but not the custom name. It says something, which i don't remember now, because it doesn't make any sense anyway..

Ah - what you call "the custom name" is the mount-point, which is configured in /etc/fstab.

Indeed, that is how i know what is where. /dev/sda10 doesn't say that /10.3 is there, i have to know that, or /dev/sda11, that /, 11 rtesides there. So all that, i have to write down from the running system before.. If you have different pc's, you cannot remember how they are partitioned from the top of your head, helas, at least: i cann't. ;)

If I open the partitioner on a running system, I get all partitions and mounted disks shown, including mount points.

Yes, the partioner can read that info.

On a system you're about to install, there is no /etc/fstab, so YaST cannot tell where the various partitions should be mounted.

/Per Jessen, Zürich

Offcourse there is. It can find all the installs and root partitions in the repair system, and if it 'read' grub, it had certainly the running systems. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-12-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha3 KDE: 4.00.68 (KDE 4.0.68 >= 20080402) "release 3.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Arvin Schnell schreef:

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:09:54PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:

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Wait - are all of those individual partitions? If the installer somehow doesn't show those under "Custom Partition", it's a bug.

Well, than it has been a bug forever, because i do not know any different. I complained about this many times, nobody told me it had to be otherwise.

It tells me what filesystem, and the size and number of these partitions: /dev/sda, dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, dev/sda5, etc up to 13, at this time, name/number of the harddisk, those things, but not the custom name. It says something, which i don't remember now, because it doesn't make any sense anyway..

Ah - what you call "the custom name" is the mount-point, which is configured in /etc/fstab.

If I open the partitioner on a running system, I get all partitions and mounted disks shown, including mount points.

On a system you're about to install, there is no /etc/fstab, so YaST cannot tell where the various partitions should be mounted.

YaST can do this for you: In the "Expert Partitioner" use the "Expert..." button and then the entry "Import Mount Points from existing /etc/fstab".

In openSUSE 11.1 this will be at a more prominent position.

cu Arvin

That is very nice to hear! I did not know about that option... (maybe i do not think of meself as an expert;) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-12-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha3 KDE: 4.00.68 (KDE 4.0.68 >= 20080402) "release 3.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org