On Wednesday 19 January 2005 13:54, Les Mikesell wrote: >On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:19, Craig White wrote: >> --- >> >> > and 2) what it does show you is to be carved in stone, not >> > re-arranged willy-nilly after you've clicked on the next button. >> >> --- >> it doesn't >> --- > >No, he's right on this one. Try creating a layout with /boot first, >then /, then swap, then /home where DD creates all the partitions. >Every time I've tried without fdisk'ing the partitions first, DD >re-arranges the layout into some other order. That is especially >stupid in the case where you try to make an identical layout on >the next drive and RAID1 mirror the partitions, then DD moves them >so they end up paired with something on the same drive. FC3 has >some new options for mirrors so it may not be as difficult as > before, but we still need some way to nail down a layout in DD that > will be repeatable in the resulting kickstart file. And I'm down there working on it right now, having put a used 46GB WD drive in as /dev/hdb, and the first real problem is that DD will not allow me to make a /root partition, claiming it must be a directory on /. With all due respect, thats bullshit. I will NEVER partition a drive and put /root as a subdir on /. I don't have such an arrangment in place on any linux install I have, won't tolerate it. Its senseless to put your most private business as nothing more secure than a directory on /. End of discussion IMNSHO. What I do as root, is not any of the semi-public /'s business, none nada zip. So how do I proceed? As it exists right now, and I'm waiting for some learned answers: /dev/hdb1= primary /boot = 100M /dev/hdb2= primary /dos = 50M /dev/hdb3= primary /root = 4GB But %$#@*& DD won't let me name it '/root', I'm gonna have to do it by hand. /dev/hdb4= extended, remainder of a 46GB disk /dev/hdb5= extended /home = 4GB /dev/hdb6= extended /swap = 1GB /dev/hdb7= extended /var = 3GB /dev/hdb8= extended / rest of disk, about 33GB /dev/hda is hopefully not to be touched, this is a new install. FWIW, this time on the final release of FC3, I can get a shell with ctl+alt+F2, so that at least is working now. So I'm going to use that shell to format, install journalling, and label those partitions, and then see if I can get around DD and actually continue a fresh install on this disk. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
