* Paul Abrahams [09-17-06 16:36]:

On Sunday 17 September 2006 4:11 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Paul Abrahams [09-17-06 16:05]:

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I'm running the Yast partitioning tool from the 10.0 boot DVD. The section of the settings for specifying the mount point of a partition is greyed out for all the partitions. If I try to save the table I get a message:

Yast2 needs a root partition to install. Assign the mount point "/" to a partition.

I have a perfectly fine root partition (it even has a "root" label) but Yast won't let me assign a mount point to it or to any other one either.

Why are the mount points greyed out and what can I do about it?

simple, "/" /= "/root"

root user and filesystem root are two different aminiaminals

Indeed they are different animals -- but how does that knowledge let me ungrey the mount points?

a little reading of your own post is necessary

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Yast2 needs a root partition to install. Assign the mount point "/" to a partition.

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On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:11, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Paul Abrahams [09-17-06 16:05]:

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I'm running the Yast partitioning tool from the 10.0 boot DVD. The section of the settings for specifying the mount point of a partition is greyed out for all the partitions. If I try to save the table I get a message:

Yast2 needs a root partition to install. Assign the mount point "/" to a partition.

I have a perfectly fine root partition (it even has a "root" label) but Yast won't let me assign a mount point to it or to any other one either.

Why are the mount points greyed out and what can I do about it?

simple, "/" /= "/root"

root user and filesystem root are two different aminiaminals

Which part of the above talks about a root user?

On Sunday 17 September 2006 5:49 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:05, Paul Abrahams wrote:

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I'm running the Yast partitioning tool from the 10.0 boot DVD. The section of the settings for specifying the mount point of a partition is greyed out for all the partitions. If I try to save the table I get a message:

Yast2 needs a root partition to install. Assign the mount point "/" to a partition.

I have a perfectly fine root partition (it even has a "root" label) but Yast won't let me assign a mount point to it or to any other one either.

Do you have it set to be formatted as anything?

It was already formatted and had useful contents, so I wasn't going to disturb it. But in fact all the other partitions have the same problem in the partitioner in the 10.0 installer. And they don't have the problem in an ordinary Yast. It's not at all clear to me why the mount point section would ever be grayed out by the partitioner, especially since the blurb on the side says that anything can be changed. In fact, nothing can be changed. Paul

On Sunday 17 September 2006 6:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Monday 18 September 2006 00:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:

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It was already formatted and had useful contents, so I wasn't going to disturb it. But in fact all the other partitions have the same problem in the partitioner in the 10.0 installer. And they don't have the problem in an ordinary Yast.

It's not at all clear to me why the mount point section would ever be grayed out by the partitioner, especially since the blurb on the side says that anything can be changed. In fact, nothing can be changed.

Is it set to be of a particular type?

It's reiserfs, type 83 (as it should be). That's how it was formatted.

I don't have the installer's partitioner in front of me, but if it's set to be something other than linux native (or something similar) it might be that it's not detected as mountable

What used to be on this partition? What is the file system on it?

It's the root filesystem and the stuff that normally goes there.

If you select to format it, does that make the mount point selection enabled?

no - though that might change if I actually formatted it, which of course I don't want to do. Paul

Paul Abrahams wrote:

On Sunday 17 September 2006 6:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Monday 18 September 2006 00:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:

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It was already formatted and had useful contents, so I wasn't going to disturb it. But in fact all the other partitions have the same problem in the partitioner in the 10.0 installer. And they don't have the problem in an ordinary Yast.

It's not at all clear to me why the mount point section would ever be grayed out by the partitioner, especially since the blurb on the side says that anything can be changed. In fact, nothing can be changed. Is it set to be of a particular type?

It's reiserfs, type 83 (as it should be). That's how it was formatted.

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I don't have the installer's partitioner in front of me, but if it's set to be something other than linux native (or something similar) it might be that it's not detected as mountable

What used to be on this partition? What is the file system on it?

It's the root filesystem and the stuff that normally goes there.

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If you select to format it, does that make the mount point selection enabled?

no - though that might change if I actually formatted it, which of course I don't want to do.

Paul

I learnt a while back that to avoid hassles with partitioning one needs to always Reread the Partition Table (an option in the Other menu, bottom RH). Cheers. -- Paranoia is simply an optimistic outlook on life.