Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote:
> I am doing an install of Debian on VMware. My  VMWare hard disk is 4.3 
> GB. I have choosen to create a root partition of 4.0 GB and swap 
> partition with the rest of the free space. I have toggled the the 
> bootable flag on the root partition to on.
>
> My Partition Table entry looks like this.
>
> SCSI1  (0,0,0)  sda  - 4.3 GB VMware, VMware Virtual S..
>
>             #1 primary    4.0  GB  <thunder  icon> <smiley  icon>  
> ext3  /
>                  pri/log   296.1 MB   FREE SPACE 
>
> I would like to know what the thunder icon and the smiley icon stands for.

The thunder icon is "we will format this partition and all data will be 
lost" the smiley icon means "we will not format this partition, but we 
will use it"  IIRC.  HTH
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Vivek Varghese Cherian 

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