On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:13:22AM +0100, James Morris wrote:
Thanks to all on the list I have gotten a lot further, I managed to get a
palo partition and the setup completed without any errors, cd ejected and
rebooted, I chose the partition and everything started booting then stopped,
I realised the root partition was not in the first 2gb (Got that from the
list emails).
Slight misunderstanding: only the "boot" partition needs to be <2GB on
the disk. The root/swap/etc has no restrictions if you have a seperate /boot.
/boot can be the palo partition since James Bottomley added some ext2
hackery (spare out the boot loader blocks) to palo. I haven't set any
of my boxes up this way yet but will on future installs.
Restarted from scratch, and did it right, managed the install ok, set the
boot partition in gsp, rebooted and got a login.
Fantastic.
excellent.
Now that it is up and running, \I am going to configure the attached 2
hp2100 disk arrays as LVM, install samba and have hopefully an excellent
fileserver.
I've consistently been advised to avoid LVM and use mdadm instead.
Maybe LVM fits your needs better.