> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:28 AM > To: debuser > Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > 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.
You can (and I do) have the first partition (/dev/hda1) mounted as /boot. I did this using the the 2.4.18-bf2.4 (or whatever) boot floppies. You do, however (as the installer explains) have to mount your root (/) partition first. Here, that's /dev/hda3. You have to mount it first, then mount your /boot, because you can't mount /boot and then mount / after that. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.gaddis.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
