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[melloe]

BETA 2 installer is a step backward.  I have installed every version and never ran into "you must reboot for this action to take place", and when it comes back, the changes one made are gone.  The recommended was resizing a small windows partition to give pclos 6 gig.  That failed.  Not what I wanted in any case.  I wanted to set up /, /home and swap.
I got it installed by changing the type on one partition , and saying to heck with it.

The installer that was once intuitive and simple has been changed...for the worse.  Bad  boys, you get no pudding  <G><

All that said, pclos installed is as good as ever.  NTFS external was mountable on plugging in.  Everything just works out of the box.
I will not be recommending to NooBs as the installer stands, or a good set of instructions to tell the manual don't work like it used to.

So, other than the installer, a good job!!!!!!!

[Texstar]

I dunno. It is the same installer that was in the previous release unless we are missing an additional package that is needed to resize a Winders partition. I don't do Windows so hard for me to test. Thanks for your report.

Tex

[YouCanToo]

BETA 2 installer is a step backward.  I have installed every version and never ran into "you must reboot for this action to take place", and when it comes back, the changes one made are gone.  The recommended was resizing a small windows partition to give pclos 6 gig.  That failed.  Not what I wanted in any case.  I wanted to set up /, /home and swap.
I got it installed by changing the type on one partition , and saying to heck with it.

The installer that was once intuitive and simple has been changed...for the worse.  Bad  boys, you get no pudding  <G><

All that said, pclos installed is as good as ever.  NTFS external was mountable on plugging in.  Everything just works out of the box.
I will not be recommending to NooBs as the installer stands, or a good set of instructions to tell the manual don't work like it used to.

So, other than the installer, a good job!!!!!!!

I have seen this happen all the way back to 2007.  I figured that it was normal as it happens after resizing a partition. I thought it just need to recalculate the partition and re read it all. It has always worked after adding the mount points back the second time though.

[melloe]

It  has always worked after adding the mount points back the second time though.

I got in a loop, about the second time round, I went after it a different way.  I don't remember this being an issue the last install.

As for windows, there is none on that HD, but the software that comes with the new HD does NTFS or FAT  <G><  Then I use the Distros partitioner to make appropiate formats
I suppose I could have solved all this by using gparted or such and creating my EXT partitions beforehand.  But I always approach any install to see if it is NooB friendly, and the Windows partition resize is going to be a thing many will need.  Almost always try it to see how it works.  This one did not.  Not that I had planned to leave it at that is any case.

I can see it now, a 6 gig partition, and forget and try to download a 4+ gig ISO   OOPS 
Thanks guys

[pags]

The usual reason for partitioning to require a reboot is when it can't get exclusive access to the harddrive in order to write, and re-read that partition table.  This is usually because there is a mounted partition.  Was there any chance that an existing swap partition was being used, or that the Windows partition had been mounted?

If you can ensure that no partitions are in use, there should be issue when changing them...

[menotu]

resizing a small windows partition to give pclos 6 gig.  That failed

Was the Windows partition mounted?

The PCLOS partitioner can only do its "work" after any other hardware activities have been carried out and/or released to PCLOS.

I don't think this is anything new in the install procedure from PCLOS 2009.x

[melloe]

No partitions mounted unless the partitioner did it.

There was no windows partition

Mandriva has the same set up and the same problems if one tries to set up / , / home , and swap in one setting.
Very disturbing.  reboot in the middle without saving any of it unless partitions are prepared beforehand.  Not acceptable