Feature changed by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #305149, revision 8 Title: Yast Expert Partitioner: should not require mounting "/" root partition - openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.2: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Info Provider: Alexey Eremenko (fenixnbk) Requested by: Alexey Eremenko (fenixnbk) Description: Hi All ! Since openSUSE 11.1 will have brand new expert partitioner, I would like to request the ability to use SUSE's partitioner for partition hard disks for other operating systems. Currently it is not possible, because SUSE requires mounting "/" root partition. In some cases I need to install third-party OSes before I install openSUSE, so I want to use SUSE flexible partitioner to partition and format the hard disk, then install the other OSes and only in the end I want to install openSUSE. -Alexey Relations: - [Feature-request] Yast Expert Partitioner: should not require mounting "/" root partition (novell/bugzilla/id: 414324) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414324 Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2008-08-04 08:41:18) So in a nutshell you want to use the partitioner as a separate program (started from the DVD) without the other installation features like package managment. Right? #2: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2008-08-05 12:11:02) Not mounting "/" during installation will certainly lead to a failure so I hesitate to remove the check. But we could add a special mode with disabled checks. #3: Robert Davies (robopensuse) (2009-01-17 12:22:56) Actually I thought I had done this with Live CD. Why isn't the YaST partitioning tool there suitable? If you are partitioning disks, then / should be in memory and swap not activated by default. #4: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2009-01-26 20:37:42) (reply to #3) Alexei, is this solution sufficient? #5: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m) (2009-04-05 11:40:42) (reply to #4) He haven't thought of openSUSE Live CD, and many independent tools for that purpose. Arvin is right. Check must exist. #6: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2009-05-28 16:31:43) (reply to #5) For LiveCD, a special mode without checks is a reasonable compromise. + #7: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2009-07-23 17:24:15) + I have changed the check so that the user can ignore the result (like + it is for several other checks for the partition setup during + installation). This was easy and should solve this feature request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305149