#1 2016-03-20 11:19:17

wrobat

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Reinstalled RC2 for the second time, 2 thoughts

I just installed RC2 again and I would like to pass on a couple thoughts that I think would be nice to see durning the install.
My first thought is that can you make it that the swap partition is not forced to be formatted? I usually have multiple linux os's on my computer and I would prefer to not go into each one and change to uuid of the swap.
My second thought is that can you make it that you can skip the grub install? I have one installed from another install and update it when required.

Thanks for the great work, I appreciate it.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Reinstalled RC2 for the second time, 2 thoughts

Hi wrobat, thanks for your feedback!

can you make it that the swap partition is not forced to be formatted? I usually have multiple linux os's on my computer and I would prefer to not go into each one and change to uuid of the swap.

If you select "Guided partitioning" you should be able to toggle the Format ("F") flag for the partition.

Alternatively, use the PARTUUID (in the output of `sudo blkid`) in /etc/fstab instead of the UUID -- these remain the same after formatting or filesystem changes.

can you make it that you can skip the grub install? I have one installed from another install and update it when required.

I'm pretty sure that is already an option in the installer, I usually don't like installing GRUB so I always refuse that stage.

Perhaps you have to choose the "Advanced installer" but I'm almost certain that the option is present in the standard installer.

At any rate, BunsenLabs uses the upstream (Debian) installer so these issues are not under our direct control.

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Gaucho

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Re: Reinstalled RC2 for the second time, 2 thoughts

These are strictly Debian Installer issues, and they are both available options that are kind of hidden.

To leave swap unformatted... choose to manually format partitions, choose the swap partition, navigate to "Do not use". When the install is done and you've rebooted, create an entry for your existing swap in /etc/fstab and reboot.

To skip grub install, choose not to install grub at that point in the install, then choose the location where you would have installed grub (example, /dev/sda). Glaringly weird way to set an option, but that's the d-i.

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xaos52

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Re: Reinstalled RC2 for the second time, 2 thoughts

IIRC, leaving the location where to install grub blank and pressing continue allows you to skip grub installation.

Horizon_Brave

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Re: Reinstalled RC2 for the second time, 2 thoughts

To ninja a question in here... I'm assuming the reasoning not to want a new swap partition, is because your other OS's are all sharing a "pooled" swap partition that already exists?

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wrobat

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Re: Reinstalled RC2 for the second time, 2 thoughts

Well i guess that sums that up.

@Horizon_Brave yes that is how I like to roll

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