On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:08, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
Yes, I noticed that during my install, initrd does not auto-select the needed modules, ala the SuSE version 7 series . What a palaver !! Just doing a manual install, allowed me to select the needed modules and then carry on. Occassional, I get prompted that no partitions can be mounted. One other thing, so far for me, is that I can't seem to add or remove packages as before, with the help of the update modules of YaST2. Tried every trip bar, dd'ing the various CDs or DVD onto DISK. Moght have to be the last option. I think, we have a problem with YaST2. Otherwise, the system remains smooth and satisfactory , so far. -- Kemdi IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2 123792 of counter.li.org ICQ:112290572