Re: What's the best way to organize "small" drives
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:29:59PM -0500, David Forcey wrote
> NEWBIE ALERT!
>
> I just installed slink on a 486-100 (Windows throwaway) with 3 salvaged
> drives (each 540 MB). I partitioned them as follows:
> hda1 boot Primary Linux ext2 250.4MB
> hda2 Primary Linux Swap 63.99 MB
> hda3 Primary Linux 201.8 MB
> hdb1 Primary Linux ext2 515.82 MB
> hdc1 Primary Linux 515.82 MB
>
> When I chose the type of system I wanted during the installation, it found
> the packages and began downloading them, then ran out of disk space. Should
> I have made the boot partition larger? Or is there a proper way to have the
> packages moved or installed on one of the other partitions? What am I
> missing here?
>
I suspect that you created these partitions, but that you only selected
"Initialize a Linux Disc Partition" for one of them; you need to do this for
/dev/hda1, but then again for each of the other (non-swap) partitions that
you want to use. After the root partition is mounted, just choose
"Initialize a Linux Disc Partition" for each of the others in turn.
If you want to mount one non-root partition within another, then you should
initialize and mount them in the right order; for instance if /dev/hda2 is
for /var and /dev/hda3 is for /var/spool, you must initialize and mount
/dev/hda2 before /dev/hda3.
John P.
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