Subject: RE: Can I skip the installer's GUI-based assignment of partitions to FS mount points?
From: Moertel, Tom (TMoertel@seic.com)
Date: Thu Sep 23 1999 - 13:30:26 MDT
Steve Scherbinski [mailto:Scherbis@meijer.com] wrote:
> As Dan Burcaw told me earlier this week, in fdisk, write a
> new DOS partition, make the partitions you want and after
> writing the partition table to disk, reboot the server.
Unfortunately, we can't put DOS partitions on the AIX volumes, as we must
keep them intact because we're dual booting YDL with AIX. That seems to be
the crux of our problem: We must keep the AIX-partitioned drives but the
installer segfaults when it sees them.
If I can't find a better solution (we just bought YDL, and so the official
support folks might have some ideas), I might save off the partition maps of
each AIX drive, wipe them clean, and then do the install, after which I can
restore the saved maps. But that's going to be unfun, and should I screw
up, we could lose a lot of data. I'd much prefer a solution that lets the
installer ignore the AIX drives as they are.
> I was on IBM's redbook site, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com and
> under the redpieces link, there was a redbook in progress on
> the B50. It has a chapter in it on installing Linux and said
> they did it on an F50, so you may want to look at that,
> though it is a work in progress.
Excellent find! Thanks for sharing this tidbit.
Cheers,
Tom
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