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Well it appears in my Mandriva 2008 liveCD file system? I would have thought it would have to work out the relationship between the hardware & the device names allocated before installation? Unless 'buntu doesn't bother doing that until you actually choose to install?
/union/ is an overarching directory created by unionfs that allows the normal / directory to be combined with the memory resident tmpfs file system.
Maybe 'buntu uses aufs instead of unionfs?
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I know both the auf-tools & unionfs-tools packages are available in the repos but thats all i know about them it seems.
I`ve had to throw an Ubuntu cd in just to be sure but theres definetely no device.map...
or even a grub directory itself come to that.
It`s got me wondering how the Ubuntu live cd does this now too though.
I always use alternate cd`s for installing so i`ve never really spent toooo much time in the Ubuntu live environment thinking about this...none in fact.
Not worrying about device.mapping anyway.
I use Puppy if i
need a live environment for most other reasons, besides installing our own setups.
All this kinda stuff can be soooo off-putting for the potential new user though eh, which is why i always suggest the more straightforward methods for the first time installers.
Once people(not meaning you in particular alien) start getting bogged down in the potential complexities of manual partitioning for the very first time it`s so easy to end up losing the plot.......especially if they lose Windows along the way.Worse when they aint backed up too of course
"Ubuntu ate my XP" is an all too familiar thread title in some places.
Let Ubuntu take control i say.....it`s not as stupid us as newbs can be.
Not as often anyway
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Does the one on the gparted cd resize ext3 ok?
The ubuntu cd didn't offer me the ablity to do that.
At the moment I have 2 x250gb drives
first is 85gb (k)ubuntu 7.10 x64
150gb vista x64
and a small dell utility partition
2nd is completely formatted to ext3 but I might want to resize that and drop in another NTFS partition for my games
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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php