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Re: I am lost as a newbie



Hi,


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jean-Sylvestre Gakwaya wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have some problem of understanding about rescue.img and boot.img
> 
> If a distribution is already installed, and I use rescue.img , is the filesystem
> stored in RAMDISK ? can it be copied over existing filesystem?
> 
> Moreover , I use fdisk to partition the HD. okay Afterwards, I use mkfs to build
> the filsesystem ... and afterwards, how can I
> specify the mounting point associated to each partition? for example,  how to
> specify that I want /dev/hda6 to be /home ?
During installation or after? After installation, you can add a line to
/etc/fstab like:
/dev/hda6	/home	ext2	defaults	0	1

This will mount /home at boottime.
Adding noauto will not mount it at boottime, but you can mount it later
shortly with 'mount /home'.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan



> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jean-Sylvestre
> 
> 
> 
> 
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