Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that.
>
> It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem.
>
Re-reading this again...
> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page.
>
> 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key.
>
> 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose
> 'Logical'. ENTER. 'Beginning' ENTER.
>
> 4. Highlight 'Mount point:'. ENTER. Highlight '/home'. ENTER. Choose
> 'Done setting up the partition'. ENTER.
Humm, it just occured to me that I was defining a gig & small change
as /boot first, then /,then /home, then /opt, then the remainder as
swap.
Can I infer from this that all other partitions must be defined first and
then the last defined partition s/b "/" and that is the only way it will
work? That would put / on an extended partition, but IIRC I had that
condition once before, several years back without any excitement.
I had always assumed that partitions s/b defined and reserved from the
outside in.
> 5 We are now back at the page in 2. Repeat 2, 3 and 4 but choose / as
> the mount point.
>
> 6. Repeat 2 and 3. At 4 highlight 'Use as:' and choose 'swap area'.
> Then 'Done setting up the partition'.
>
> 7. 'Finish partitioning and write changes to disk' is the final step
> in partitioning on this page. But before doing it carry out step 8.
> Then ENTER and agree to write the changes to disk on the next page.
I should also relate that at this step, when it looped, it had erased the
original partition table of a previously used disk, so it did write to
the drive enough to clear the old table, but had not written a new one.
Verified by bailing out and rebooting to a recent gparted cd, and
finding the existing partition table had indeed been wiped.
> 8. Switch to tty2 with ALT-F2 and do
> cp /var/log/syslog /var/log/syslog-part1
>
> >/var/log/syslog
>
> If there is any failure at step 7 (or before) you should have a record
> in syslog which can be viewed with 'more /var/log/syslog'.
> syslog-part1 will contain information on disk detection.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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