>The fist thought that occurs to me is: does dselect know enough to put >files on the usr partition, or did it freeze trying to stuff 400+ megs >onto a 100 meg root partition? How does dselect know which files to put >on which partition? Or does it know?
This seems like a new-user-question, so I'll try to give a simple answer :) Let's assume you have this partitions 100 MB /dev/hda1 400 MB /dev/hda2 [maybe a few more, doesn't matter here] You mount the partitions: /dev/hda1 -> / /dev/hda2 -> /usr Now if you put a file under /usr (or one of it's subdirectories) it's stored on the /dev/hda2 partition, which happens to be 400 MB. Just what you wanted :) Tobias
