Helps lots thanks makes more sense the the books ive been reading. And now
that my weekend is here ill be trying it again. Hopefully next time you all
hear from me it will be a better problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: setting partitions
>On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:10:59PM -0500, 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.
>> Thanks
>> Jim
>
>I think you are confusing what functions / and /boot perform and how Disk
Druid
>handles them. First, you only *need* one primary partion. This is so that
the
>BIOS can access your HD and run the bootstrap loader. This can be LILO or
the NT
>boot loader or OS Commander. In the case of Linux, LILO is used to load
>the kernel. It is either "THE" boot loader, ie in the MBR, or the secondary
boot
>loader, ie, on a primary partition that you specify in lilo.conf. This can
be
>/boot or / but it must contain the kernel.
>
>In DD, if you create a partition and its mount point is /boot, DD will make
>that a primary partition (hda1) because the kernel is in /boot. Since there
is
>no reason for second primary partition, DD makes everything else a logical
>partition of an extended partition. It also know that this needs to be a
>primary partition (for LILO) so it makes this hda1. (this of course is
assuming
>you are using LILO as the primary boot loader). Since / is the root
partition
>and *doesn't* contain /boot (separate partition), it makes it hde6 (the
>extended partition hde5 is not shown in DD but is in cfdisk or fdisk).
>
>If you didn't have /boot as a separate partition then by default it would
be
>a directory under /. In this case DD would make / primary partition nda1.
Remember,
>*only* the partition that has the kernel (or a mount point that contains
the
>kernel) needs to be primary; everything else is logical.
>
>Phew! Hope this helps
>
>Steve
>
>--
>illegitimi non carborundum
>"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
>
>
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