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milothurston
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Location: Oxford, England.
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 Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 9:28 am Post subject: \boot (or not) advice request |
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I'd like to convert a Red Hat machine over to Gentoo, leaving the partitions unchanged if possible (so I don't have to format /home and /usr/local). However, it looks like this:
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Mounted on
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux /
/dev/hda2 1276 3187 15358140 83 Linux /usr/local
/dev/hda3 3188 3442 2048287+ 83 Linux /var
/dev/hda4 3443 9732 50524425 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3443 3697 2048256 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 3698 9732 48476106 83 Linux /home
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So, would it be possible to turn off the auto unmounting of /boot, and if so, where
is the necessary config file to do this, please? Alternatively, is parted supplied with the
Gento install CD, and could it delete hda1 and replace with two smaller partitions (/boot
and /)? If so, would it be possible to renumber the existing partitions?
Many thanks,
Milo. |
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klieber
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Location: San Francisco, CA
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 11:57 am Post subject: Re: \boot (or not) advice request |
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| milothurston wrote: | | So, would it be possible to turn off the auto unmounting of /boot? |
Yes -- look at /etc/fstab. (man fstab for more information)
| milothurston wrote: | Alternatively, is parted supplied with the
Gento install CD, |
Not sure, but there is an ebuild script. Worst case, you can always just create a separate boot disk with parted on it and use that to repartition things.
| milothurston wrote: | and could it delete hda1 and replace with two smaller partitions (/boot
and /)? |
Sure, but if you're going to delete it, you don't need parted -- just use fdisk. You would only use parted if you needed to shrink/grow existing partitions.
| milothurston wrote: | | If so, would it be possible to renumber the existing partitions? |
Don't think you can renumber partitions. Shouldn't matter all that much, though -- hda1 is the same as hda8 as far as linux is concerned -- just make sure your fstab is set up correctly.
--kurt
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milothurston
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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Yes -- look at /etc/fstab. (man fstab for more information) |
Thanks. For some reason, I thought that it might be something other than
the "obvious as soon as pointed out". :D
Now to do the install...
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