On Tuesday 30 April 2002 11:10 am, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
Please, no.... not yet !!
The senerio you described, I encountered also. During install, did you at least try and read your active /etc/fstab file ? i.e if you, like me use the expert partitioning options ?
I think that the default, during update or clean install is for the installer to want to format any disk in its way, but I've always refused it that pleasure , as I have several partitions going back in time that I've always kept and their data and files too.
Just make the /boot default to ext2 and format that. Then try to match the others to what your original layout used to be. And make sure , you've asked for no formating of your precious partitions.
Better still, just post your /etc/fstab here, so we can take a look.
Well here's what I do for an install. 1) No, I don't let it partition on its own. I always make my partitions ahead of time for /boot and / and let it format those. 2) I originally told it to format /boot as EXT2 and / as EXT3 which is what I really want, and then I ran into the problem. But I also 'added in' some of my old partitions such as /home and /ftparea which were already in EXT3 and I didn't let it format those. 3) I finally got down to just using /swap, a new /boot, and a new / with the latter formatted in EXT2 and that got me into the system one time at which point I probably played with fstab and added in some other partitions. If I had to guess, I would say that the install DID NOT set up initrd to allow for EXT3 partitions, a severe error in my estimation and it must have something to do with a relationship with also having SCSI because I was able to install on a laptop (IDE) with / being formatted to EXT3 and it went just fine. I need to get back and play with it but if I can't even get it to run, then what other problems are lurking beyond that? -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 04/30/02 15:02 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." -Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks