On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:35, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > -----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. > > -- > Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org> Yes, that was what I was planning, but as I was saying, I didn't expect that it would want to mount the partition as part of preparing it, and not permit deferring the mounting until the proper / was in place. While I know for next time, it was something that caused me to restart the installation after 15 minutes work. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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