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Re: palo / fdisk and debian installer



On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:13:18 +0200 "kenneth westelinck" <kennywest1@hotmail.com> wrote: 8-§  > Hi,
8-§  > 
8-§  > I think there's something wrong in your setup. According to the installation
8-§  > manual (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/hppa/ch-partitioning.en.html)
8-§  > you'll need:
8-§  > - a partition for palo, bootable, about 16MB -> type F0, not mounted (I
8-§  > guess this will be /dev/sda1)
8-§  > - a partition to put your kernel in, also about 16MB -> type ext2, mounted
8-§  > on /boot (I guess this will be /dev/sda2)
8-§  > 


You don't exactly need to partition all these time your HDD, even if it is recommandable: I partitioned my HDD in order to provive the NECESSARY F= partition for PALO, swap and finally ext2 one. It has worked for the last month. However you are right when you state the last recommendation:

8-§  > Now you'll need to tell palo to find your kernel (in /etc/palo.conf):
8-§  > --commandline=2/vmlinux HOME=/ TERM=linux root=/dev/your_root_fs

Have fun

linuxabbestia



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