may i? this could be a case of too many partitions for a few requirements.
the way i see it, 2 partitions will do. 1 for native and 1 for swap. that
should do i, if ever i read it right.
At 03:28 PM 8/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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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