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#1 2004-06-14 17:20:05

lmellen
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From: Fairport, NY
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mount point for boot???

:?  I've reinstalled about 4 or 5 times now; systen seens to work well;
      and have a question about mounting and filesystems during install.
      There is probably something very simple I'm missing.

      I partition my hd into 3 parts, part1 - 32mb for boot, part2 - 1gb for
      swap, and part3 - 7gb for root, then write it to disc.
      I then go to the next step, in install and it starts asking me where I
      want my swap partition. Fine, then root, where and what type of
      filesystem, again, fine.
   
      The questions I have are with boot. I made a boot partition in
      cfdisk, but I still have to mount it, do I not???? The installer
      asks for swap, root, but not boot! Now, this is where I might be
      screwing up! The program does ask if you would like to mount
      another partition, I choose Part1, choose ext2, and then it asks where
      to mount it. I get a window with /home. I remove home and type
      /dev/discs/disc0/part1. This does seem to work, but is it necessary,
      or what is the correct procedure?

      The problem is that when I edit /etc/fstab I get:
      /dev/discs/disc0/Part1/dev/discs/disc0/Part1. I remove the extra dev
      line and type in boot and everything seems to work OK. When I first
      started I didn't know what I was doing, and this seemed to work.
      Would somebody please explain the correct procedure???

                                               Thank You -- Larry

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#2 2004-06-14 17:57:04

vladtepes
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Re: mount point for boot???

Greetings,

normally you just have to set the boot flag in cfdisk...
you dont have to choose like you do with your swap and your root, just set the boot flag and leave it allone...


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#3 2004-06-14 18:09:20

Dusty
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Re: mount point for boot???

lmellen wrote:

The program does ask if you would like to mount
      another partition, I choose Part1, choose ext2, and then it asks where
      to mount it. I get a window with /home. I remove home and type
      /dev/discs/disc0/part1. This does seem to work, but is it necessary,
      or what is the correct procedure?

I think you should remove home and change it to /boot.  The /dev/discs/disc0/part1 was autoselected when you chose Part1, ext2, was it not?

Dusty

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#4 2004-06-14 19:06:16

lmellen
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From: Fairport, NY
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Re: mount point for boot???

big_smile Thanks Vladtepes, that was what I needed to know. Just reinstalled,
      no ext2 or Part1 messages all over the place, worked well.
     

     Dusty I tried /boot, boot, and /dev/discs/disc0/Part1/boot.
     What would happen is that when the formatting was applied reiserfs at
     Part 3 always failed? Obviously Swap was skipped.
     I just finished installing gentoo, I thought most systems were pretty
     much the same. While techanically they might be, the user interface
     and file procedures are different. gentoo does not have the eth0 setup
     in rc.conf, but in conf.d/net(I think).
   
    What is the default formatting for linux? In cfdisk part3 is reiserfs,
    part 1 & 2 are just listed as Linux?

                                   Thanks -- Larry

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#5 2004-06-14 19:59:35

Dusty
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Re: mount point for boot???

lmellen wrote:

       What is the default formatting for linux? In cfdisk part3 is reiserfs,
    part 1 & 2 are just listed as Linux?

I guess ext2 is the default filesystem for Linux, but most distros use ext3 by defaut nowadays and the best to use is... very debatable. :-D

Dusty

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#6 2004-06-14 21:02:59

xerxes2
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Re: mount point for boot???

I know I'm threadnapping now. big_smile  big_smile
Must boot partition be ext2 or can you use reiser?


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#7 2004-06-14 21:39:42

Dusty
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Re: mount point for boot???

dunno. try it and if we don't hear from you we'll know it can't be. :-D

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#8 2004-06-14 23:40:38

lmellen
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From: Fairport, NY
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Re: mount point for boot???

:? For what it's worth, when I was installing gentoo I was told ,or read that reiserfs would not work in boot! The reasoning being that reiserfs was designed for larger volumes. I think I was using grub.conf and it kept giving me failure errors until I replaced reiserfs with ext2  smile Larry

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#9 2004-06-15 05:33:33

dpb
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Re: mount point for boot???

Uh. 1gb for a swap... That's way too much IMHO.  :shock:

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