[ros-general] ROS installer scribbled over my ext2 partition :-(

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Christof Petig wrote:
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| This limitation really hurts if you do not plan to use ROS exclusively
| on that computer (e.g. if you do not want to throw XP away completely or
| you already use a first primary partition for linux).
|

ROS and XP can share the same partition.  It just cannot be NTFS.  You
can always move partitions around.

And yes, while the limitation "hurts," that's a workaround that you can
use.  Short of editing the source code, I'm not sure if there's much
that can be done.  I'll cc: this to the dev list and ask if the
limitation still is there, but I personally don't see anything about it
having changed.  Consider that ROS is still in "early" stages of
use/release.  0.3 hasn't even been released yet.  I am sure that when
the partition/fs code is better able to deal with multiple partition
setups, it will all work as it would be anticipated it would.

	- Mike

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