On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > /root must be part of / filesystem for the install and initial boot process. / is the first partition mounted and initially mounts ro then after the boot gets past a certain point it then gets remounted as rw. Since the install and normal boots proceed as root there must be a home directory available for the boot process. Once the system has remounted the / filesystem in rw mode, then you can mount an additional partition over the basic /root, but that is your problem with /root and trying to specify that as a separate partition during the install.
