Re: Partitioning Question


Subject: Re: Partitioning Question
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 08:29:33 MST


ext_2 is Linux native.
Your swap partition should be type "swap". Don't name it "/swap" or it won'
t work.
On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 08:10 AM, Joe Villari wrote:

> I'm trying to install YDL 2.1 on a TI PowerBook.
>
> I have 14 GB avail on my drive. I've set up 10mb partition for the
> bootloader, a 128 mb swap partition. I want to break down the remaining 2
> gb for root, 5 gb for /usr 5 gb for /var and the remainging 2 gb for
> /home.
>
> When I set all the partitions up they show up as ext2 instead of linux
> native. When I try to have out of he partitioning it aborts.
>
> Can I set up partitions like usual or can I only have bootloader, swap
> and root?
>
> Joe
>



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