Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
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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.
You can specify which partition does what, but you do have to mount /
first. / can by any partition, not necissarily /dev/hda1, and this is
supported by the boot-floppies installer of which you speak.
/dev/hda3 is / on ursine, for example.
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.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
`. `'`
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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