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Skriven 2007-06-14 16:34:05 av Alan Hess
     Kommentar till en text av Charles Scaglione
Ärende: plan to try again
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Whilst masticating on <Jun 12 07>, Charles Scaglione (1:123/789)
wrote to Alan Hess:

CS> You probably want your mount point to be "root" since you 
CS> installed GRUB on the slave drive.  Which by the way, is the 
CS> correct way to do it if you don't want your MBR overwritten.  I 
CS> don't think you can choose more than one mount point.  If I 
CS> remember correctly, it won't allow that.

I'll find out on my next attempt.  :)

CS> You need an imaging program to keep you out of trouble.  Acronis 
CS> True Image, Ghost, Drive Image, etc.

DFSEE does that.  I've zipped my partitions, plus made images of them.

AH>> I used DFSEE to create two 6.5 gig Linux partitions, plus a Swap
AH>> partition, on my slave drive.  Should I mount some stuff one of 
AH>> the 6.5 gig partitions, and some on the other?  If so, how should 
AH>> I divide things?  And how should I format them - DFSEE formatted 
AH>> them as ext/2?

CS> Don't use ext/2.  Instead, use the Ubuntu 7.04 default which is 
CS> ext/3. Ext/3 is a journaling file system, ext/2 is not.  I don't 
CS> know anything about DFSEE, I used Partition Magic 8.0 to 

You can check DFSEE at www.dfsee.com, if you're curious.  It comes in a Linux
version.  It's shareware.

CS> partition off my slave drive.  I left the Ubuntu partition as 
CS> unallocated.  The 7.04 installation program formatted the 
CS> unallocated partition to ext/3 and placed GRUB at the "root".  
CS> The two 6.5 GB partitions (assuming one for Home, the other for 
CS> Root) and the swap partition should be OK.  But like I mentioned, 
CS> you should really use ext/3 for Home and Root.

I'll remember this.

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

CS> Just setup the IBM Boot Manager (been a long time since I used 
CS> it) to give you a boot choice for the Ubuntu installation.  When 
CS> the menu item is selected, it should automatically "chain load" 
CS> to GRUB on the Ubuntu root partition.  If all is correct, you'll 
CS> see the GRUB menu appear with the default item on it selected.  
CS> If I remember correctly, you're also running XP along with eCS.  
CS> The difference between your setup and mine is that I'm using a 
CS> different boot manager - and I don't have eCS. (Wish I did, but 
CS> too expensive for now.)

Yes, I have eCS and XP.  I went to eCS because IBM's Passport Advantage support
for Warp cost too much.  eCS had all that support, plus improvements, for less.
 *adh*

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