Arun K. Khan wrote:
Thanks to Michael Lankton for sharing his partition layout. I had a similar installation with Slackware way back in '94, wherein I what really wanted was a separate partition to install the / (root) filesystem and the rest of the stuff could go in another partition. Since I am the only user, I am not concerned about disk quotas, filling up /usr/tmp /var/tmp etc.
I could not figure out how to do a Linux install in 2 partitions (one for / and for the rest) and would appreciate if someone could give me some pointers.
Arun, Naturally there are multiple ways to accomplish this. From the boot disk one could start the installation process and choose "Adjustment of installation" once YAST has started and select the "Configure hard drive partitons" option. After doing your worst to dazzle and confuse the disk controller move on to the "Set target partitions/filesystems" options and declare your intentions. Once yoou return to YAST start choosing packages to install and save your preferences to a diskette before the mandatory reboot that follows repartitioning the drive. Method 2: Start as above, but following linuxrc running jump to an alternative console by hitting 'alt -F2'. Run fdisk and partition the drive. Remember to set a swap partition type for the one being used for swapping. Write out the harddrive config and reboot. Once linuxrc runs again and YAST is up go to the "Adjustment of installation" menu again and choose "Set target partitions/filesystems" and proceed from there. By the way, even on a single user machine it makes some sense to separate /tmp from /, especially if you intend to use the net extensively. Hope this helps, Stu - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e