Hi All,

Just did a clean install off the live cd today. It took me awhile to get the hang of the partitioning tool (I actually like the breezy/debian ver. better). One odd thing that I'm confused about it this:

I have 3 hard drives XP-hda dapper-hde and unclaimed-hdg. After setting up my dapper partitions and mount points on hde:
/boot
/
/swap
/home
/usr
/var
/tmp,

I hit the "next" button and it displays a list of the new partitions to be formatted and mounted. In addition to the 7 that I set up, it also lists an 8th: hdg-swap. Why is the drake annexing space off of hdg for swap and why can't I select it off of the list? I'd already claimed 2.5 gigs of swap space on my dapper drive, hde.

Thanks,

ab

I haven't bothered trying Dapper yet, but it seems you'll get around this by setting your partitions up first, then load the installer.
I always do anyway - never seen an installers partitioner I trust; although Mepis was pretty good.

Thanks for the reply. I actually did set up the partitions first through breezy. I did this because when I tried it through the dapper install, the partition confirmation screen reflected partition sizes that didn't remotely resemble what I had actually manually defined. I tried this several time with the "round up to cylinder" option checked and then not checked. Hmm... frustrating that I had to use the breezy partitioner to get it right (well almost- there's still the mysterious hdg swap issue). :-(

-ab

Syg00,

I'm all for simple and reliable. Which partitioning tool do you use, fdisk?

Thx,

ab

Yeah, I prefer to handle things myself - fdisk, or cfdisk if you like a "snazzy" (ncurses) interface. Although anything should do, including any of the parted derivatives.
As for that swap issue, I wouldn't worry about it. If you can afford the space on hdg, let the installer do it's worst,and clean it up later on. Should be simply a matter ofamending fstab, and rebooting. You can always swapoff if you don't want to reboot immediately.
BTW, last I looked 2Gig was as big an extent as swap will use - I think you're probably wasting that extra half Gig.

Yeah, I'm not sure why I was thinking 3g for the swap. Thanks for the size reminder.

-ab