Andrei Popescu wrote:
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
When I'm in the partitioner, I can't select "/dev/hdd" to be the "/"
mount point; all it would let me do is clear the partition table. I
cannot skip that step and manually specify the mount point, however,
because the next step, installing the base system, requires the mount
points to have been created and set up by the partitioner.
Now, I haven't looked at the installer sources at all, but it would seem
to me that all I would (theoretically) have to do is do what the
partitioner would do, which is to mount the root drive under its
temporary mount point in the memory-based filesystem, and communicate an
"ok" signal to the next step. Because that's all the paritioner seems to
do: once you've specified all your mount points (and formatted volumes
and such), it just mounts the tree underneath the temporary filesystem
(like "/mnt/install-root" or whatever it actually is).
I can already mkdir+mount /dev/hdd wherever it needs to be. Is there a
way to manually invoke the next step without it complaining that I
haven't partitioned my drives? (We don't want to be inflexible and
predetermined about what our users want, like Windows, you know!)
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