On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:18:14PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > I see no need to partition a drive if I'm going to have only one partition > on it, so I just use the entire drive as a volume. It's really quite > normal. Just "mke2fs -j /dev/hdd" and it's ready to go. Gives you a few > more sectors of space and slightly less overhead.
Ok > Can't do that with Windows, of course, because it's too stupid to > understand it. Linux has no problem with it, and I've been doing it for > years, but I just don't happen to know how to communicate that to the > installer. Once I get over the little hump of telling the thing to use a > premade volume as the root mount point instead of having to do it through > its partitioner, it'll be smooth sailing. And what's the problem of using the partitioner? Doesn't it recognize your volume? If it is possible to avoid that it must be by using preseeding. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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