Situation:
Desktop PC with two internal SATA drives.
Three installed OS/2 eCom Station OS's -
two on first HD (drive 0)
one on the second HD (drive 1)
GParted used to create/format three linux partitions on second HD -
8Gb for use with root - /dev/sdb9
20Gb for use with home - /dev/sdb10
2Gb for use with swap - /dev/sdb11
When the installer shows a screen that shows, initially, a graphical representation of how the first drive is configured and what it would look like 'after' installation based on the 'default,' which is to use the first HD and use all of it - wiping out any existing OS's.
You make your election on that screen to change how the installation will occur, and I did - selecting the second HD and again, changing the default so I could select how to install to that drive.
I selected the three partitions, identifying the mount point each time - /dev/sdb9 for root, /dev/sdb10 for /home, and /dev/sdb11 for swap. (This is from memory, but the Advanced tab was clicked - I know what I'm doing).
Then 'did the deed' and let the installation begin. To my surprise and shock, when the installation was finished, I discovered that three partitions on the first HD were changed from HPFS to ext3 and swap! I had done nothing to the first HD with GParted - nothing!! Those three partitions contained very important data, and were now no longer 'seen' by any of the three installed OS/2 systems!
To shorten a long narrative (a bit), with some 'tech'-pertise, recovery of this problem was made.
A second installation was then made, and I looked very carefully at the screen where one can mark which partitions to use and on what HD. I found that you can click on every listed partition and and opt to 'do not use this partition' - which is not intuitive, nor mentioned or explained anywhere in the process. So, I clicked on every single partition on both drives, ensuring that all were marked 'do not use...' expect the three on the second HD. I doubled checked (maybe even a third time) before giving the go ahead to install. This time, no partition on the first HD was changed.
I found this experience to be very disappointing and even scary. The PC this happened to was my fathers. Both myself and he agreed, that the behavior of the installer appears - based on our experience - to be flawed. After telling the installer that a specific HD is to be used - /dev/sdb here - it should use that HD and no other.
It would be far better, and more intuitive, if the installer would present 'ALL' HD/partitions it 'sees' and have them all marked by default as 'do not use' and have the user specifically mark which ones to use.
Has anyone observed this behavior of the installer on a system that already had installed OS's?
Desktop PC with two internal SATA drives.
Three installed OS/2 eCom Station OS's -
two on first HD (drive 0)
one on the second HD (drive 1)
GParted used to create/format three linux partitions on second HD -
8Gb for use with root - /dev/sdb9
20Gb for use with home - /dev/sdb10
2Gb for use with swap - /dev/sdb11
When the installer shows a screen that shows, initially, a graphical representation of how the first drive is configured and what it would look like 'after' installation based on the 'default,' which is to use the first HD and use all of it - wiping out any existing OS's.
You make your election on that screen to change how the installation will occur, and I did - selecting the second HD and again, changing the default so I could select how to install to that drive.
I selected the three partitions, identifying the mount point each time - /dev/sdb9 for root, /dev/sdb10 for /home, and /dev/sdb11 for swap. (This is from memory, but the Advanced tab was clicked - I know what I'm doing).
Then 'did the deed' and let the installation begin. To my surprise and shock, when the installation was finished, I discovered that three partitions on the first HD were changed from HPFS to ext3 and swap! I had done nothing to the first HD with GParted - nothing!! Those three partitions contained very important data, and were now no longer 'seen' by any of the three installed OS/2 systems!
To shorten a long narrative (a bit), with some 'tech'-pertise, recovery of this problem was made.
A second installation was then made, and I looked very carefully at the screen where one can mark which partitions to use and on what HD. I found that you can click on every listed partition and and opt to 'do not use this partition' - which is not intuitive, nor mentioned or explained anywhere in the process. So, I clicked on every single partition on both drives, ensuring that all were marked 'do not use...' expect the three on the second HD. I doubled checked (maybe even a third time) before giving the go ahead to install. This time, no partition on the first HD was changed.
I found this experience to be very disappointing and even scary. The PC this happened to was my fathers. Both myself and he agreed, that the behavior of the installer appears - based on our experience - to be flawed. After telling the installer that a specific HD is to be used - /dev/sdb here - it should use that HD and no other.
It would be far better, and more intuitive, if the installer would present 'ALL' HD/partitions it 'sees' and have them all marked by default as 'do not use' and have the user specifically mark which ones to use.
Has anyone observed this behavior of the installer on a system that already had installed OS's?
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