I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen. The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
I can see in the DrakX installation:
The Setup file systems
Filesystem types: Ext2
Swap FAT
Other Empty
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| hda |
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| --------------------
------------------- ------------------------------
| |
| |
| |
|
| |
C |
| D
| |
E
|
| |
| |
| |
|
| --------------------
-------------------- ------------------------------
|
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|
|Choose action| | Details ----------------------------------------
|
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Device: hda5
|
|Mount point | |
DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
|
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Type: DOS FAT16
|
| Resize |
|
Size: 2047 MB (10%)
|
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|
| Delete |
|
|
---------------| |
_______________________________________________________
__________________
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Clear all
| |
Auto allocate
| | Undo
|
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___________________________________________________________________________
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Done
|
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Note:
hda is the entire drive
hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C
hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D
1. In the comments section, the following was copied (I could not find
any other way of copying the instructions)
Two common partition are: the root partition ( /
), which is the starting point of the file system's directory hierarchy,
and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the operating
system when the computer is first turned on.
Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I selected
the 2nd button.
***************************************************************************************
This is were the confusion sets in:
2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this is a factory
install from Dell.
2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button. Another window
pops up asking:
Where do you want to mount device hda5?
Next to the Mount point field appears: /
I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5
2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace ( /
) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot.
A drop down arrow shows the following selection.
/
/boot
/home
/mnt/dos
/mnt/iso
/tmp
/usr
/va
3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the delete button,
it will indicate that the partition D or hda5 is empty.
3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message appears:
partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (614938
MB are overlapping!
at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ... propagated at /usr/bin/perl
- install/diskdrake.pm line 47
3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap were all there.
Sounds confusing?
Sorry about the long email. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just about 1/2 of D.
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Roman....if you used the auto allocation, you'd have a small
(64 meg - 128 meg) "green button" for swap.Alan
Romanator wrote:
>
> Charles,
>
> After many, many hours DrakX is now running. I was trying to install the
> i586 on the wrong machine. The hard drives and ZIP drives were old. I
> think the i486 will work with the 10 Gig PII 200 MHz machine.
>
> My first stumbling block in DrakX, is the fact that when I selected hda5
> (D partition), I clicked on mount, and the / appeared. Next, I clicked
> on mount button again, and typed in /boot. However, it prompted me for a
> swap file. This is where I stopped. As it was prompting me to redo the
> entire partition, I thought I should check with every one.
>
> Roman
