On 2016-01-13 19:04, don fisher wrote:
On 01/13/2016 06:50 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-01-13 00:26, don fisher wrote:
and then mounts a swap partition from another drive, so my fstab is corrupted.
The installation system uses, during the installation, any swap space it finds (and it is not written to fstab). The swap space you create during install does not exist yet, as all formatting is delayed till the final "go ahead with install".
Maybe somebody else could try this and see what they get. The Install did place the "other" swap space in my fstab, as well as the new one. During the install, I am not sure how to remove the selection to swap partitions on other drives. Will that not cause the installer to delete those partitions from those drives? I did select "Create Partition Setup" and selected the USB drive. Set up then showed me the three partitions on that drive which I selected. It then deleted the swap and generated / in partition 1 and home in partition 2, deleting swap from partition 1.
I will try again later.
Thanks for the inputs. I gather not many people build bootable USB drives.
(I used a ready made image on USB; I did not create my own). I'm trying now on a virtual setup, which I had not ready when you asked. I'm using a Vmware player virtual machine which currently contains a Leap install, where I plug an USB stick, reboot, and run the install media in an emulated DVD. (maybe the stick is far too small, 8 GB) Point: the install system posts a partition proposal, using only "sda" (the virtual harddisk). It completely ignores the usb stick. Possibility: edit proposal settings. Nothing usable there. Possibility: Create partition setup. It asks what disk to use, IDE sda, or SCSI sdb, or custom (for experts). I try the second option, and next. Then I click "use the entire hard disk". I also click on the edit proposal settings, to use ext4 instead. The result wants to use sdb for the system, and reuses the existing sda1 as swap. Notice: use, does not format. So I now go to "expert partitioner". I go to sda1, and hit "do not mount" for sda1 and sda2 (edit button). Then I delete the proposed sdb1, and create another smaller sdb1, plus an sdb2 for swap. I select mount by label (don't use by id in this case). Also option "no access time" (fstab options). For system, I select minimal X. Verify boot loader configuration. I taboo plymouth. Go ahead. [...] running the install... Install successful, it seems. I can't boot it in vmplayer, but that could be a different issue which I'm not going to investigate, as I have no use for this installation in a usb stick. I verify that it contains a root partition and a swap partition, and the fstab refers to them. But the labels I created are not used. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)