-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:28:03AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been > Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies installation for > the first time in 2 1/2 years. Even after using Debian for 5 years, and > knowing how I wanted to lay things out, I had to repartition the box > three separate times to get something that would work with the installer > - it was being insistent that the first partition prepared should be /, > when I had planned to have /dev/hda1 as /boot.
You can specify which partition does what, but you do have to mount / first. / can by any partition, not necissarily /dev/hda1, and this is supported by the boot-floppies installer of which you speak. /dev/hda3 is / on ursine, for example. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+gqjbJ5vLSqVpK2kRAnCmAJ9Tpe8yBEApBCjme/APREuLB/hyiACgyco9 ODDW5RPnG3UpeGIN/oeNzsU= =spjO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
