On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:42:53PM -0700, Matthew Jackson wrote:
> Ok. I posted earlier about not being able to boot GRUB or LILO on my second
> HD from the XP NTLDR. It gave me the error "Unable to load from hard drive.
> Please insert System disk and hit enter" I though that was bootpart giving
hi ya micha
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > > > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition
> > >
>
> That NOT true. The right line today is
> /boot no longer needs to be a separate partition.
okay ... i'll bite ...
> It used to be required due to bios limitations on the
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:29:59PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>
> > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition
> >
That NOT true. The right line today is
/boot no longer needs to be a separate pa
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition
>
> Why? Please elaborate.
even if you can boot, you do NOT have a root fs ..
( /etc /bin /sbin /lib /dev ... )
you can always use a fd or cd or network to
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - /boot should NOT be a separate partition
Why? Please elaborate.
Robert Epprecht
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> Matthew Jackson wrote:
>
> I just downloaded the weekly build for Sarge and burnt the first iso.
> The install goes great but when asked to install GRUB, I decide not to
> install to the MBR so it asks me where to install it to. The reason is
> I have XP on one hard disk and Linux on the other h
>
> To: "Matthew Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Bootloader for Sarge
>
>
> >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:39:23PM -0700, Matthew Jackson wrote:
> >>I just downloaded th
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> I know what the reasons are for using seperate partitions,
> but I just can't bother. Linux isn't Unix, it's closer to
> being Windows than it is Unix. It's a crummy desktop O/S on
> commodity Intel whiteboxes.
>
> Just use one big giant / part an
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:32:53PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> > Matthew Jackson wrote:
> On it I have partitioned it into these:
> >/boot 250mb
> >/tmp 750mb
> >/var 1gb
> >/ 10gb
> >/usr 20gb
> >swap 1gb
> >/home remainder ~40gb
>
>
> I think you might find that /boot is about 10 time
> Matthew Jackson wrote:
On it I have partitioned it into these:
>/boot 250mb
>/tmp 750mb
>/var 1gb
>/ 10gb
>/usr 20gb
>swap 1gb
>/home remainder ~40gb
I think you might find that /boot is about 10 times larger than
necessary, and / is about 50 to 100 times what you need for a
workstation.
hth
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:24:17PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> Do you have 2 hard disks? The 1st must be hda and the second hdb. Why
> hdc? Also it ought to be possible by this release of the installer to
> use LILO. I always use LILO.
FYI, under Linux, for IDE drives,
hda = master
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:39:23PM -0700, Matthew Jackson wrote:
> I just downloaded the weekly build for Sarge and burnt the first iso.
> The install goes great but when asked to install GRUB, I decide not
> to install to the MBR so it asks me where to install it to. The
> reason is I have XP on o
Matthew Jackson wrote:
I just downloaded the weekly build for Sarge and burnt the first iso.
The install goes great but when asked to install GRUB, I decide not to
install to the MBR so it asks me where to install it to. The reason is I
have XP on one hard disk and Linux on the other hard disk.
I just downloaded the weekly build for Sarge and
burnt the first iso. The install goes great but when asked to install GRUB, I
decide not to install to the MBR so it asks me where to install it to. The
reason is I have XP on one hard disk and Linux on the other hard disk. the linux
hard disk
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