ulrich wrote: >> There was a question about /usr and / being in the same partition. I'm >> bringing /home up in its own partition, but everything else shares a >> partition (except my windows partition. I'm not going to let my Linux >> installation touch my Win2K partition). > That said, my install runs through the point that it tries to boot. It > > I spent hard time with FC5 und XP dual boot. > Only after reading some side remarks in koflers LINUX book, i found out > > 1. Partitioning with the LVM (like fedora does is, when you don't interfere) > is the major obstacle. I didn't use LVM. I'd like to claim some intelligent insight on that, but the truth is that I'm not that familiaar with LVM so I rejected it in favor of what I am familiar with. > > (i) LVM requires some additional configurations to grub for transfering the > boot image (dual boot with XP). > (ii) its no good idea to have the /boot and swap under LVM > > (iii) if you want to apply LVM with dual boot, just do it to the / and if > necessary to /home, /usr etc. For a workstation LVM is no good idea at all. I appreciate the insight here. As I said, I'm not that familiar with LVM. It's not the problem here though - I didn't use it. > > (iv) try manual partitioning /boot 150 kB swap 1-2 MB rest as available > (min 8 GB) I may try reinstalling later today with a simpler partitioning scheme. I have 2 hard drives, so I can't get to something as simple as you suggest. Maybe /windows and /home on drive hda and /boot, swap and / on drive b. Thoughts? ---Michael -- Why wait on Microsoft to upgrade your computer? http://fedoraproject.org/ It's stable, new, and *FREE* Treat yourself!
