Re: wheezy drive recognition?
Quoting Gene Heskett (gheskett@wdtv.com):
> Then edit fstab to mount the LABEL = /opt drive on top of the /opt
> directory is easy. But Jessie will have installed some things in /home
> and I am not convinced we have a mechanism/script I could apply to
> update the image of wheezy's home on the LABEL=/home partition that will
> not at that time, be mounted over the /home directory of the Jessie
> install on the other to be main boot drive.
I can't parse this, sorry.
I can only guess that you *might* be referring to the situation where,
by accident or design, you leave a separate /home partition unmounted
while installing Debian on the root partition. On rebooting, d-i will
be found to have placed /home/<first-user>/{.bash_logout,.bashrc,.profile}
in / but it's a simple matter to boot single/recovery, move/remove
<first-user>/{.bash_logout,.bashrc,.profile} (if they offend you), and
mount your home partition on the now empty /home (adjusting fstab to suit).
If that's not the case, please ignore the above rather than
re-expounding what you really meant.
> And one other question: Can the installer deal with a drive that has no
> partition table on it? I know for a fact that as it stands for wheezy,
> that it will not accept, even if it can see it, another partitioners
> partition tables. It absolutely has to write its own table and nothing
> a human can concoct will ever suit it. Frankly, debian needs to get an
> alaskan divorce from whatever its called and use gparted and be done
> with it.
I don't know the expression "alaskan divorce". Could it be where you
walk from the divorce court straight back to the registry office to
get re-married?
Cheers,
David.
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