Installation Manual Partition Setup.

[Theriex]

When I manually set up my partitions. If I try to set up anymore than 6 partitions in the installation, it automatically jumps out of the disk setup window and boots the Live CD OS.

I've didn't see any other posts with this problem, any suggestions?

[miKeyBabid]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

I'm no expert on the subject, but I am currently researching about partitioning as well.

What kind of partitions are you making and how many of each ?

You can only have 4 primary partitions per HD (I believe).

What's your setup ?

Mike

[Theriex]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

I'm not making any partitions, the partitions are already there, i'm just setting the fs type, whether or not to format them and the mount point. I have 3 drives as follows.

sda1 - ext4
sda2 - swap

sdb1 - ext4
sdb2 - ext4
sdb3 - ext4

sdc1 - ntfs
sdc2 - ntfs
sdc3 - ext4

Edit: I tried updating the installer, unfortunately that didn't help and it jumps to the OS when I set up the 5th partition not 6th as i previously stated. I could probably get around this, but i'm assuming this is not an intended function of the installer.

[Snowhog]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

Which of the three HDs are you going to install Lucid on? On sda, you only have one partition (not counting swap). If you used that, you will have your users /home directory on the root partition, and most would tell you, that isn't the best approach.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

I can think of no reason for this and I've never tried that many on install (but you can bet I will soon ). Maybe you found a bug!

Easy workaround is to setup four partitions on install and add the others later.

My recommendations (as if you wanted my advice...lol), if you're not planning on any reformatting:

/, /tmp, /home, swap

If you reformat you've got tons of options - RAID or LVM to name a few.

[Theriex]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

sda1 - ext4 - /media/Storage-1
sda2 - swap

sdb1 - ext4 - /
sdb2 - ext4 - /boot
sdb3 - ext4 - /home

sdc1 - ntfs
sdc2 - ntfs - /media/Windows
sdc3 - ext4 - /media/Storage-2

Edit: It is possible I may have found a bug, if so i'll submit it.

[dibl]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

You say "manually set up", but in reality, and using the "manual" partitioning option, you should not have to do anything except tell it which partition is to be used for "/". Everything else, including finding the swap partition, should be done automatically -- the other partitions should be picked up as "disk1", "disk2", etc.

Even the automatic pick up isn't happening while you install, just go ahead and install, and fix /etc/fstab later. I have about the same 3-disk configuration as you do, and it's only 10 minutes to patch up /etc/fstab the way you want it, once the OS is installed.

[Theriex]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

I don't quite follow you on that, I don't see how the installer knows where I want to put my home partition or boot partition, or which ntfs partition is my windows partition (I suppose that last one could search for windows files)

Edit: Oshun, is there any benefit to me making a partition for /tmp? I am formatting the / /boot and /home directories.

[dibl]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

OK, if you want your /home on the other partition, then you'll have to set that. Leave the other partitions alone until after installation -- you're right, all "ntfs" partitions are the same to the installer. You can twiddle these in /etc/fstab after you've got the OS booted.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

You say "manually set up", but in reality, and using the "manual" partitioning option, you should not have to do anything except tell it which partition is to be used for "/". Everything else, including finding the swap partition, should be done automatically -- the other partitions should be picked up as "disk1", "disk2", etc.

Except they aren't mounted where and the way he wants. HAL will let you read the other partitions automatically using dolphin but write permissions are problematic.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

Oshun, is there any benefit to me making a partition for /tmp? I am formatting the / /boot and /home directories.

The advantage is it prevents you from accidentally filling up the root partition, leaving your system unbootable.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

IMO: You really only need the separate /boot if you use RAID or some unsupported partition format for your install partition.

[Theriex]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

Dibl, the way you suggest is the workaround way. I can easily set up my /, /boot, /home and windows partitions and do the others after install. I suppose i'm just trying to see if this is a bug or not lol I suppose I don't need the /boot, I can merge it with the root partition.

Oshun: I've never had that problem, I have plenty of space for my root partition.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

You can even add /boot to your fstab and move the files over after the install if you want.

Unless your editing video or ripping dvd's (i do both) your likely right about the /tmp. I just consider it insurance against the accidental event.

[dibl]

Re: Installation Manual Partition Setup.

With 3 drives and 10 partitions, I find the simplest approach is to label all the partitions except the swap partition. I do not make a separate /boot or /home partition any more. I just put all of Kubuntu on a 20G partition of its own, and then use symlinks to the /home folder for data, music, videos, etc.

I haven't had a NTFS formatted partition for 3 or 4 years, so I may not be current on the ins and outs, but I think ntfs is supported in the kernel now, right? So if the installer doesn't recognize it (which it may not), that will be a post-install configuration task in /etc/fstab.

I say it again -- using blkid and fdisk -lu in a terminal window, patching up /etc/fstab is at most a 10-minute task on my rig. It's really not a big deal -- I guess one can call it a "bug", but it's hard to imagine a developer getting excited over it.