Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-05 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:13:21AM -0500, jereme wrote: > I'll explain how to get /home setup, /tmp will be pretty much the > same without the need for moving over old files. > > Log your user out everywhere, X, VT's and then log in as root, don't > su -. > > First you need to know ... > You sho

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread jereme
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now my question is: during setup and installation, i partitioned off > my hard drive into a swap partition /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home. i > initialized the swap and the first three of the others, but then i > stopped, and moved on to the rest of the

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:09:42PM -0400, Dan Hunt insinuated: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:24:40 -0500 > "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what's weirding me out is, having created a user account for myself > > and logging in, `pwd` says i'm in /home/nori. how can this be, if i > > didn't in

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread Dan Hunt
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:24:40 -0500 "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's weirding me out is, having created a user account for myself > and logging in, `pwd` says i'm in /home/nori. how can this be, if i > didn't initialize a /home partition? where on the disk am i? is this > bad?

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:56:36AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy its > contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it: > > $ sudo bash > # cd / > # mv home home-bak > # mount /home > # cp -pdR h

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:56:36 + "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy > its contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it: > > $ sudo bash > # cd / > # mv home home-bak > # mount /home > #

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:56:36AM +, Karsten M. Self insinuated: > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:24:40AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now > > installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead > >

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
I'm not sure if this would work, edit your /etc/fstab and add your partitions there: LABEL=/home/home ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/tmp /tmpext3defaults1 1 If you're wondering where is your /home right now my guess is that you're using your root partition. Do

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:24:40AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now > installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead of > me ... but thanks to y'all and to debian, it was much easier than i'd >

initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Nori Heikkinen
so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead of me ... but thanks to y'all and to debian, it was much easier than i'd expected it to be. now my question is: during setup and installation, i partitioned off my