On Friday 07 July 2006 18:14, Joe Zien wrote:
Yast insists on installing 10.1 hdb9 which is my backup partition as a reiser partition, whiping out my backup. hdb10 is an empty 9GIG ext3 partition where I want to install 10.1. Why can't I just install 10.1 on a ext3 partition of my choise?
As Carlos said.... use the 'expert' partitioning mode. In this mode, you have to tell it everything you want done. *Which* partitions (must have been created already) you want formatted *how* and *where* you want them mounted. But you can also tell it to make up new mount points for those partitions that aren't part of the install... like data partitions, or Windows partitions. Don't tell it to format those partitions that you do not want formatted. Oh, and include a swap partition too.