I just switched over to linux from windows (although I've got some minimal linux exp) and was using Mandrake 10.0. From the last time I used Mandrake (8.0 or so) it has really kind of gone down hill IMO. There were TONS of incompatibilities and my nvidia drivers wouldn't install it was just a mess. So now I've decided to try college linux. I know how to partition drives but I can't seem to get this to work the way I'd like it to. Here is my situation:

I have two drives

hda : 30gb
hdb : 160gb

I'd like them to be partitioned as such:

hda1 = /root (10gb)
hda2 = /usr (18.5gb)
hda3 = swap (1500mb)

hdb1 = /home (160gb)

The college linux installer will try and make me declare a root drive whenever I use cfdisk from within their installer.

How can I set it up like this when the installer tells me to choose certain numbers for different mount points on one drive?

Try setting the flag for your root partition as bootable. Haven't used cfdisk in a while but if I remember correctly, that should do it.

That's how I've been doing it.

Hmmm don't know then. Go to this site:

http://jetblackz.cjb.net/

The info there has gotten me out of numerous jams.
I'll look into it some more when I get my box back up (currently dealing with a KDE upgrade catastrophe) and post anything I find.

Hrmmm. Well then let me ask this.


I'm not quite sure that what I need has to be done in cfdisk (and the CollegeLinux installer).
Obviously Linux is going to make /home by its self if I do not specify which partition to put it on because it did it last night, so how can I change it after the install?

Is there a way to delete that mountpoint from startup and replace it with hdb1?