On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you > > might break things. > > which is?
See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > i've had bad luck in the past with non primary partitions. i try and avoid > them when i can. i like to keep user stuff (home dirs, web pages etc) out > of /usr so i normally make a large /var and link stuff to it. I've heard others report the same, I've never been that lucky -- and I do have several extended partitions. BTW, the fhs has users' dirs on /home rather than /usr/home. You can also put webpage homes there as well if you do virtual hosting or just /home/public_html for normal user pages. You can get away with four primaries too: /, /usr, /home, /var. > i've done a stock slink install and it hangs on the re-boot before you get > to deselect. i don't think that is the problem. > > > Also, their may be an issue with addressing >8GB drives -- does the > > kernel report the ``correct'' geometry at boot (C/H/S)? > > it didn't until i disabled the drive in bios and then cfdisk found it and > reported it with the correct size. > > i'm gonna try an install with the potato disks and see if that helps. sigh > ... back to floppies :) Well, if you have networking, you'll only need five: Rescue.bin Root.bin, and the three driver disks -- you can get the rest off of the net. I did this last week on a system -- works slick if you have a fast connection, kind of a drag if you don't. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
