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Subject: Re: [SLE] Disk partitioning
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 19:47:21 +1200
From: cll
hello
I am a sort of a newbie to suse 6.3. I was a redhat user. If you don't mind , can you help me with a slight problem during installation.
i want to know how i can specify the sizes of / ,/boot,/home partitions during installation. My disk geometry being what it is , my hard disk has more than 1024 cylinders. Disk Druid in RHL says its 1027 but yast says its around 2337. So the /boot in suse somehow manages to come after the 1500th cylinder. So lilo won't work properly. Moreover, my hard-disk is not contigous. Repeated formatting and resizing of partitions are to be blamed, i suppose. Any idea how i can continue? Even documentation on the web would be nice.
Cheers Cheedu
Congrats on coming to SuSE. I had my share of cock-ups due to Red Hat Disk Druid :( Anyway, for LILO, the only requirement is that the kernel and bootfiles reside in the first 1024 cylinders of the first 2 hard disks visible to the system. Choose or make a partition satisfying the above conditions. (It only needs to be 1 LBA cylinder -- about 7MB), and set it as /boot mountpoint. Put your kernel and bootfiles in this /boot partition. All other files can go anywhere. Hope this helps -- Never trust a man in a suit cll -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/