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Skriven 2007-06-13 03:40:00 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN HESS
Ärende: Re: plan to try again
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-=> ALAN HESS wrote to ALL <=-

 AH> I took a look at the Alternate install CD of Ubuntu 7.04, and selected
 AH> manual. I got as far as being asked about mounting the partition I
 AH> chose, and didn't know what to select.  There were a bunch of options,
 AH> including root, home, /usr/local.  

Wow! Not so fast. Do you have another operating system on there? 

 AH> I think I want everything on that partition, including Grub 
 AH> when I get that far.  

The first partition is the root partition and it is expressed
as:- 

/

Technically speaking that's all you need because grub and the
kernel images go there.

In practice however it is not a good idea to have one big partition
because over time you will download packages and want to keep them
safe if something goes wrong and you have to do a rebuild. So
it is usual to have one partition for user files and it is
expressed as:-

/home

The third is called opt or local and is where various packets
have been downloaded and compiled.

/local

 AH> Which mount options
 AH> should I use, and can I choose more than one before saying "Done?"

Yes mount points as above but you will need to size each portion 
first to whatever you think appropriate, Whether you want a swap
partition or not depends on the amount of ram you have. It should
not be bigger than 256 Meg.

 AH> There doesn't appear to be any help with the text install.  I now know
 AH> (after my disaster with 5.10) Grub must be placed in the Linux
 AH> partition on the slave drive (/dev/hdb2), 

Nooo. The root partition should always be on the first hard disk
in an extended partition (/dev/hda5) or the second partition
on the master disk (/dev/hda2) assuming here you have another
operating system at (/dev/hda1). 

 AH> and not in the MBR (that
 AH> caused my disaster by killing all the data on the master somehow, and
 AH> even restoring the partition table didn't help.  Had to reformat every
 AH> partition and restore from tape backup.)

I don't know much about Grub but Lilo can sit in the MBR or the (/)
of your first Linux partition.

Probably because you all ready had another boot loader in
the MBR.

 AH> I used DFSEE to create two 6.5 gig Linux partitions, plus a Swap
 AH> partition, on my slave drive.  

If it's worked in the past then you can try it again but i would
not be happy having root (/) on the slave drive. If you can free
up some space on /dev/hda and make a little extended partition
on it your system will have much improved stability.

(/) Doesn't have to be very big but then you will need a /usr
partition.

 AH> Should I mount some stuff one of the 6.5
 AH> gig partitions, and some on the other?  If so, how should I divide
 AH> things?  And how should I format them - DFSEE formatted them as ext/2?

These days ext3 is used and Ubuntu will be very happy.

 AH> I have eComStation 1.2R and WinXP, with IBM Boot Manager, on my master
 AH> drive.

This complicates things a little but not a lot. I have no idea
what eComStation 1.2R is or what file system you are running
XP on or how much spare space you have. Perhaps you need to
utilize the slave drive in another fashion. Why not repartition
the slave disk so it can compliment the master disk?

I have no idea how big your master disk is but you could
have a one or two gig XP compatible partition on the slave
drive and it should show up on your XP system as another disk
then of load as many data folders or saved downloads as you can
on the new slave drive partition. This will free up room on the
master disk for a small ext3 (/) partition. This is a stable
set up. Yum yum. :)

Then decide what size ext3 partitions and what mount points you want 
on the rest of the slave drive. Here is my partitions and
mount points.

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              1565392    260772   1225100  18% /
/dev/sda7              2016016    780300   1235716  39% /home
/dev/sda8              5423680   2072056   3076112  41% /local
/dev/sda1                48052      8080     39972  17% /mnt/dos
/dev/sda2             20788104  12312412   8475692  60% /mnt/windows
/dev/sda10            22888668   6141692  15584276  29% /opt
/dev/sda6              5052032   1742628   3052768  37% /usr


Just substitute /dev/sda for /dev/hda. See how small the amount
of used space is on /dev/sda5 is. Ok that can be the partition
on the master and the rest of the Linux can be on your slave as 
/dev/hdb.

Don't forget that on /dev/hdb you will now have a Win partition
and you should mount that as /mnt/windows2

What ever you do just make sure you don't have the boxes next
to your other operating systems checked when you go to format the
new partitions.

  
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