Re: Partitioning Question


Subject: Re: Partitioning Question
From: Joe Villari (joev_nylxs@pipeline.com)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 09:06:38 MST


Thanks

I was having trouble naming the mount points. Went back and started
over and now it works just fine. I have a 256mb swap, 2gb /, 5gb
/usr, 5gb /var and 2gb /home.

Joe

>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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