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Newbie follow-up questions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Van Oostenbrugge)
Mon Nov 2 09:01:31 1998
From: "Steve Van Oostenbrugge" <radar@cyber-wizard.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>,
"Lance@Tky3. 3web. Ne. Jp" <lance@tky3.3web.ne.jp>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:58:52 -0800
In-Reply-To: <199811020430.NAA28026@pop3.tky.3web.ne.jp>
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>... Are your drives EIDE, SCSI?
all are IDE
>How many? How are you installing -- from a cd, hard drive, FTP?
I have 3 HD's... 1st (C:\) is main with win95, 2nd (D:\) and 3rd (E:\). I
want to install Linux into the 3rd HD. I have boot and root floppies and 2
CD's. (CD is F:\, and removeable drive [zip] is g:\)
>...Instead, they are labelled /dev/hda for the first non-scsi hard drive,
/dev/hdb for the second, and /dev/sda, sdb, etc.
All my drives are NON - scsi. so that would mean /dev/hda , /dev/hdb , and
/dev/hdc ? (just curious... are floppy drive designated as /dev/fda?)
>As an example, my Linux root is in the second logical partition on the
first SCSI drive, so that's /dev/sda6. (Numbers 1-4 >are reserved for the 4
primaries, or 3 primaries plus 1 extended, that you are allowed on a drive.
OK... I understand your example, so... considering that I have an entire HD
for Linux (my 3rd) would its "path" be /dev/hdc6 or only /dev/hdc? (id'ing
the whole drive only). This is where I was stopped in my installation, when
I was asked for the partitions such as the examples above... I didn't know
what the heck it was asking, considering that I didn't have and didn't know
how to set up these partitions in such a way that the OS could read it.
>...For example, my "/" partition (root) is /dev/sda6, swap is /dev/sda7,
/usr is /dev/sda8, /home is /dev/sda9 and >/usr/local is /dev/sda10. You'll
have a chance to set your partitions up like this during the install
(assuming a CD, >here), using Linux fdisk,
(Well, you just answered another question about which OS is using
'fdisk'...)
Obviously there is some meaning into having different partitions such as a
user, user local, home, swap, and root... (may be too set in the DOS/WIN
ways to understand why... YET!)
>and I'd suggest that it's a good idea not to dump the whole installation
into one partition. Just make sure you have about >500 mb of free space
available (more is better, of course, but you can get by on less),
my (the) drive that I am installing on is 800 MB, and planning on using this
one HD exclusively for Linux, but even so, what is the thought behind NOT
installing the whole thing into one partition? Do you also mean that you
should have 500 MB free AFTER install or prior to install?
>...When you get to installing LILO (the LInux LOader), be sure to enter a
line allowing it to boot Bill's product off of, I >am assuming, /dev/hda1.
Then you can use LILO to boot to either system.
does the install process prompt you for LILO editing, or is that advanced
installation or does it come into play after you have completed the initial
installation of the Linux OS? Also, does the LILO boot prior to Win95?
Where does the prompt come into play requesting which OS you want to boot
into? Or is that taken care of whether or not you boot from a floppy (Linux)
or from the HD (win95)?
>...Keep a written log of what you do. Keep a log of how your drives are
laid out, and write down every mod you make after >you're up and running. I
mean write 'em *all* down. Should you ever have problems, such a record can
prove to be >invaluable.
Very good advise... but I'm way ahead of you on this one... started this
'log' prior to making my boot disks <bg>
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Steve Van Oostenbrugge
radar@cyber-wizard.com
ICQ - 10707631
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