Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:42:13AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> 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
They're both on the same partition--I was under the impression the the
thunder was bootable--but I don't have a install disk to test my
hypothesis.
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Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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