On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:28:03AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been > Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies installation for > the first time in 2 1/2 years. Even after using Debian for 5 years, > and knowing how I wanted to lay things out, I had to repartition the > box three separate times to get something that would work with the > installer - it was being insistent that the first partition prepared > should be /, when I had planned to have /dev/hda1 as /boot.
That would be the first partition that you prepare (ie put a file system on). It has _nothing_ to do with the order of the partitions on the drive. Thus, /dev/hda1 could very easily be used as /boot. You just need to mount and prepare the partition that you wish to use as / first. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
