Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:28:03AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been
> Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies installation for
> the first time in 2 1/2 years. Even after using Debian for 5 years,
> and knowing how I wanted to lay things out, I had to repartition the
> box three separate times to get something that would work with the
> installer - it was being insistent that the first partition prepared
> should be /, when I had planned to have /dev/hda1 as /boot.
That would be the first partition that you prepare (ie put a file system
on). It has _nothing_ to do with the order of the partitions on the
drive. Thus, /dev/hda1 could very easily be used as /boot. You just
need to mount and prepare the partition that you wish to use as / first.
--
Jamin W. Collins
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