RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:28 AM
> To: debuser
> Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
>
> 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.
You can (and I do) have the first partition (/dev/hda1) mounted
as /boot. I did this using the the 2.4.18-bf2.4 (or whatever)
boot floppies. You do, however (as the installer explains) have
to mount your root (/) partition first. Here, that's /dev/hda3.
You have to mount it first, then mount your /boot, because you
can't mount /boot and then mount / after that.
j.
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Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org>
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