Subject: Re: partitions/mount points for 2.1 install
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 09:21:29 MST
I would create the root partition earlier in the partition map than
swap. The bootloader should be earlier still.
You can change the mountpoints yourself by highlighting the partition
and editting it after formatting. YDL wants to make the first available
Linux partition root, so I assume that is why it named the mountpoint as
it did.
On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 09:30 AM, Andy Hocker wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm installing YDL 2.1 on a system that had a previous
> install of YDL 1.2. I'm doing the "Custom Install" because
> that's what the install guide says you should do if you
> have existing Linux partitions. When I got to the partitioning
> section, I had:
>
> Part. Name Filesys. Size
> ------------------------------------
> .
> .
> .
> hda8 untitled hfs 1000 MB
> hda9 root ext2 ~2000 MB
> hda10 swap linux-swap 64 MB
> Unused free none 2 MB
>
> which I recognized as my old partition table. So now
> the install guide tells me to make a 10 MB bootloader
> partition, and I want to increase my swap space too, so
> I delete partitions 9 and 10 and add the new partitions.
> Then my table looks like:
>
> hda8 untitled hfs 1000 MB
> hda9 untitled hfs 10 MB
> hda10 swap linux-swap 128 MB
> hda11 untitled ext2 1964 MB
>
> The "Getting Started w/ YDL" book says something like
> "Note that the regular Linux partition and the swap
> partition will have the filesystem 'ext2.'" That doesn't
> appear to be the case for swap, but otherwise it looks
> good so I forge onward and click save. I get a "Formatting...."
> window and after 10 seconds or so it's done. Then when I
> go to the "Mount Points" section of the install, I get
> the following:
>
> Part. Mnt. Pnt. Filesys. Size
> ---------------------------------------
> hda8 hfs 1000 MB
> hda9 / ext2 10 MB
> hda10 swap linux-swap 128 MB
> hda11 ext2 1964 MB
>
> What the hell? It looks like it changed
> my bootloader partition to ext2 and tried
> to mount it where the Linux root partition
> ought to be, and it doesn't want to mount
> the Linux root partition at all.
>
> I went back to the partitioning step and noticed that
> the partition table now showed the bootloader partition
> as "ext2" as well. I tried all sorts of rearranging of
> partitions 9-11, but every time I got to the mount points
> step it would do something screwy with the bootloader
> partition, like the above, or not list it at all (when this
> happened, I went back to the partitioning step and
> saw that bootloader partition filesystem had reverted
> to "none").
>
> Can anyone help me, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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