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Skriven 2007-06-14 16:39:22 av Alan Hess
     Kommentar till en text av MARTIN ATKINS
Ärende: Re: plan to try again
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Whilst masticating on <Jun 13 07>, MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
wrote to ALAN HESS:

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

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

Not on the slave drive.

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

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

MA> /

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

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

MA> /home

Would that go on the same partition as /home?

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

MA> /local

Same question here.

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

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

That's what Swap is set as.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not sure if I can manage that.

MA> (/) Doesn't have to be very big but then you will need a /usr
MA> 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 
AH>> divide things?  And how should I format them - DFSEE formatted 
AH>> them as ext/2?

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

Happy OSes are a good thing.  :-)

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

MA> This complicates things a little but not a lot. I have no idea
MA> what eComStation 1.2R is or what file system you are running

eComStation is an OEM of IBM's OS/2.

MA> XP on or how much spare space you have. Perhaps you need to

XP is on NTFS.

MA> utilize the slave drive in another fashion. Why not repartition
MA> the slave disk so it can compliment the master disk?

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

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

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


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

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

I'll study this setup.

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

Thanks for all the tips.  *adh*

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