On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jim Travnick wrote:
> Not using hda2 or hda3 for anything these are just what RH set it all up as.
> Right now the drive has four partitions on it for windows I delete them and
> start with what I thought would be fresh. dont want win. on this system at
> all its the kids old system that she refuses to use anymore, so I figured it
> would make a good Linux box. when you say the boot partition do you mean "/"
> or "/boot"? I have tried to make both first and no matter what it moves "/"
> to hda6. Sorry if I sound dumb at this but I'm trying to learn this and want
> to learn it right the first time.

Perhaps I missed when you said this. Why is there a problem with "/"
being hda6? That is a secondary partition and is just fine for "/". Only
/boot needs to be a primary partition:

> more fstab
/dev/hda9    /                    ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda2    /boot                ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda7    /home                ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda5    /c                   vfat    uid=2995,gid=2995  1 2
/dev/hda10   /d                   vfat    uid=2995,gid=2995  1 2
/dev/hda11   /e                   vfat    uid=2995,gid=2995  1 2
/dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom           iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hda8    swap                 swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy          msdos    noauto,owner    0 0



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