I decided to reboot after using cfdisk and the install went OK. I'm not used to cfdisk not prompting me to initialized the partitions and am concerned if my swap partition took. When I issued the 'free'command , I saw 'swap 0 0 0'. In 'cat /etc/fstab' I see no swap mounted. At least the software installed. I decided to go to QTParted during the install to see what cfdisk gave me, but it only recognized a prior FAT32 partition and stated on the term window 'unable to align partition properly...generated an incorrect partition table,because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. ????
I can see that one cannot trust cfdisk in giving a correct partition table. I have a 40 gig drive and it tells me that I have a 41 gig drive . I may run into problems later.
My question is where in the installation does one get to create /usr; /var etc partitions. I picked the reiser file system so maybe it does not need a '/usr' slice.
Knoppix/kanotix and the rest of these Debian like OS need to have a better install procedure.
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