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Date:	Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:05:03 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Round 3 with 1.2R: frustrating weekend

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J R FOX wrote:

> O.K. so you wanna play hardball ? For the last
> go-'round, I decided to skip the pre-partitioning and
> just try this with a straight install to C: . . . even
> though I don't want this to be on C:. That finally
> worked. So now I get to see what a presumably full
> and finalized install of 1.2R looks like. SNAP went
> on. I think Peer went on, though I have no idea how
> to go about testing this. The Internet, Network, etc.
> folders look like they might be fully populated this
> time. That's the good news, although there is nothing
> much I intend to do with this install, other than
> count it as practice.

First, it installed on a clean primary where it would not on a
partitioned drive, right. If so that matches much of my experience.

But you still don't quite get it. Don't install it on the drive you
want to use it on. Don't you have an old, small drive, and a normal
desktop machine? Make a basic install on that and keep it in storage.
It's called make the backup first. And don't get so hung up on
images of partitions. The full, real partition doesn't take much
longer to copy. And you can actually use it as a boot drive.

But the biggie is; if you wanted it E:, why did you let it be called
C:? Install LVM lets you give it any drive letter you wish. I have
now made about six installations to a 3G drive, copied them to a 160G
storage drive, and then copied the one I wanted to a working drive.
That way when you - or the gremlins - make a mess of things, you get
one from storage and start from there. If at some point you get an
installation that you like copy that to storage and make that your backup.

Having said that, I did just do a reinstall on my laptop and then
copied it to a USB IDE drive. But, not until I had done it several
times on a desktop.

Ray

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