From linus at wineasy.se Wed Oct 3 12:39:21 2001 From: linus at wineasy.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Linus_Sw=E4las?=) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Installer. In-Reply-To: <20010810141027.A13619@aleph-0.aleph-0.dhs.org> Message-ID: I've got a quite simple question that I'd like to have answerd, I'm out of diskspace so I can't check this myself. (And someone ought to know). When booted, the latest iso prints a warning saying that the installer isn't made for multios boot and that it will destoy all data on the disk. I don't want to multiboot so that's fine but I do have a home partition (/dev/hda7) which I _DON'T_ want formatted. So my simple question is: Will the setup/installer destroy the partition table/format all partitions even if I choose "Use existing" from within the setup program? And do I have to specify the partitions I already have on the disk to the setup program? (/dev/hda1,swap hda2,/ hda3,/var hda5,/tmp hda6,/usr and hda7,/home). It seems to me that it won't destroy data in this case but since I cannot backup this data I want to KNOW. (I really don't want to loose my /home, it's quite old. =)) Regards / Linus Swalas Linus Sw?las UNIX technician & programmer WinEasy AB Stockholm SE Cell: +46 70 188 01 03 Email: l.swalas at wineasy.se From malekith at pld.org.pl Wed Oct 3 12:21:50 2001 From: malekith at pld.org.pl (Michal Moskal) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:21:50 +0200 Subject: Installer. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011003122150.A11953@ep09.kernel.pl> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:39:21AM +0000, Linus Sw?las wrote: > > I've got a quite simple question that I'd like to have answerd, I'm out of > diskspace so I can't check this myself. (And someone ought to know). > When booted, the latest iso prints a warning saying that the installer isn't > made for multios boot and that it will destoy all data on the disk. I don't want > to multiboot so that's fine but I do have a home partition (/dev/hda7) which I > _DON'T_ want formatted. > So my simple question is: Will the setup/installer destroy the partition > table/format all partitions even if I choose "Use existing" from within the > setup program? And do I have to specify the partitions I already have on the > disk to the setup program? (/dev/hda1,swap hda2,/ hda3,/var hda5,/tmp hda6,/usr > and hda7,/home). It seems to me that it won't destroy data in this case but > since I cannot backup this data I want to KNOW. (I really don't want to loose my > /home, it's quite old. =)) If you choose use_existing, it won't create new partitions. If you choose destX_format_parition=no, it won't even format it. You should set it to `no' for /home and I guess to `yes' for others. Howver, use at your own risk and so on :) Best ragards -- : Michal ``,/\/\, '' Moskal | | : GCS {C,UL}++++$ : | |alekith @ |)|(| . org . pl : {E--, W, w-,M}- : Linux: We are dot in .ORG. | : {b,e>+}++ !tv h : CurProj: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/people/malekith/ksi : PLD Team member From linus at wineasy.se Wed Oct 3 14:05:59 2001 From: linus at wineasy.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Linus_Sw=E4las?=) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Installer. In-Reply-To: <20011003122150.A11953@ep09.kernel.pl> Message-ID: I'll backup my mail and then I'll trust you. ;) Thanks! / Linus On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michal Moskal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:39:21AM +0000, Linus Sw?las wrote: > > > > I've got a quite simple question that I'd like to have answerd, I'm out of > > diskspace so I can't check this myself. (And someone ought to know). > > When booted, the latest iso prints a warning saying that the installer isn't > > made for multios boot and that it will destoy all data on the disk. I don't want > > to multiboot so that's fine but I do have a home partition (/dev/hda7) which I > > _DON'T_ want formatted. > > So my simple question is: Will the setup/installer destroy the partition > > table/format all partitions even if I choose "Use existing" from within the > > setup program? And do I have to specify the partitions I already have on the > > disk to the setup program? (/dev/hda1,swap hda2,/ hda3,/var hda5,/tmp hda6,/usr > > and hda7,/home). It seems to me that it won't destroy data in this case but > > since I cannot backup this data I want to KNOW. (I really don't want to loose my > > /home, it's quite old. =)) > > If you choose use_existing, it won't create new partitions. If you > choose destX_format_parition=no, it won't even format it. You should > set it to `no' for /home and I guess to `yes' for others. > > Howver, use at your own risk and so on :) > > Best ragards > From linus at wineasy.se Wed Oct 3 17:38:21 2001 From: linus at wineasy.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Linus_Sw=E4las?=) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Installer. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: So I tried and I conquered. Not. =) There seems to be a problem with the installar that I can't understand. I don't know how parted works but to me it seems a bit buggy. This is what happens when I run installer (after setup of course). /bin # installer Validation complete, config is OK Mounting /dev/hdb on /src type iso9660 Loading ide-mod Loading parted-pkg Loading ext2-pkg *** Checking existing partitions !!! Creating new msdos label failed! /bin # Trying the offending line (in the beginning in /bin/installer-dest, a function called create_new_label_if_not_exist or similar) on the command line directly reveals: /bin # parted -s /dev/hda print Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/hda /bin # So, I suspected some kind of error with my partitioning so I booted up my old linux installation and ran fsck on all partitions, all checked out ok, tried fdisk /dev/hda, everything seems fine. Dumped the partition tables and checked them by hand, still looks fine. So, fdisk from util-linux won't complain but parted does. I don't know parted, don't even know what it's trying to do when it want's to create a new msdos label in my mbr. That just seems odd to me. I've also specified use_existing in the config so why does parted bother? Of cource after checking your script, parted is necessary for the script to figure out and build a table of the existing partitions, am I right? Do you have a solution or workaround for this problem? And why create a msdos label? Regards / Linus PS. If you'd like I can send you a dump of the partition tables, doubt that it would help you though.. DS. Linus Sw?las UNIX technician & programmer WinEasy AB Stockholm SE Cell: +46 70 188 01 03 Email: l.swalas at wineasy.se From wrobell at ite.pl Mon Oct 29 13:21:44 2001 From: wrobell at ite.pl (wrobell) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:21:44 +0100 Subject: mozilla embedded (mozilla, galeon, skipstone) Message-ID: <20011029132144.F5056@pred.posexperts.com.pl> There is new spec: mozilla-embedded. It provides all the files which are required by skipstone and galeon projects to build (require mozilla-embedded-devel) and run. Embedded package from mozilla.spec is removed. Reasons: - embedded package contains some files from mozilla.spec but these files can be different themselves, i.e. rpm -qvlp mozilla-embedded mozilla | grep embed.jar - mozilla builds on my system about 68 minutes mozilla-embedded 58 minutes, but there is big possibility that it will take much less time so in the future galeon and skipstone users would be delivered faster with new browser version :-) mozilla browser users will be not so happy :-( I have tested not heavily mozilla-embedded with skipstone and galeon. If you used old embedded from mozilla.spec, you know, that there were problems with scrollbars and psm. Now it works but there is a small problem with psm - some texts are not displayed. I do not know if it is problem with mozilla-embedded package or psm. It does not affects mozilla. It should be noticed also, that you can _still_ use galeon and skipstone with _nonembedded_ version of mozilla. So, please, when mozilla-embedded arrives to test, then test it with preffered browser. wrobell