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Setup & Installation / Re: eCS 2.2 YUM/RPM question
« on: January 30, 2013, 06:20:39 pm »Quote
If I want to install it on another Drive this drive has to be already created and formatted before the "real" installation starts, otherwise I will not be able to install ODIN and so on...
True, but that is very easy to do. In most cases, on a re-install, the alternate drive will already be set up, and formatted. If it is s new install, and the drive isn't already set up, you can do that when you set up the drive during install. Create all of the volumes, then the install drive is formatted. At that time, there is the option to format the rest of your drives (JFS, HPFS, etc. Not FAT32 or NTFS). Once they are formatted, you are free to use them.
Personally, I take the opportunity to select the alternate drive to contain the %HOME% and %PROGRAMS% directories too. Hopefully, the updated installer will also allow a user to specify the %UNIXROOT% directory at the same time, even if a user chooses not to use RPM/YUM. If that is done, and %UNIXROOT% is placed on an alternate drive, a user should be able to install RPM/YUM some time in the future, without messing up too many things. One of the reasons that I do that, is that I can share those directories between multiple boot drives. I am not sure what implications that would have with RPM/YUM (could be a horror show, if they don't do things properly), but everything else that I have tried works fine.