Slackware, cfdisk, partitions, etc..

philY · 11-01-2003, 03:18 PM

Hi Every1,
I need some slack installation help

... What the surprise? I used to have rh8 and rh9... I had disk druid then

... I am not intending to have any windows system...
I read the Book issued by slackware.org...It sounds complicated sometimes...I got slack cd's... I got 60GB hard disk...My understanding of installation is as follows:
I insert the cd nr 1... It starts booting, I hope

...
Then I need to partition my hd... Probably I will use cfdisk (whatever is available)... Do I need to prepare my hd before inserting the bootable CD?
I want to have 3 logicall disks, 20GB each... Is it possible to do it with cfdisk during installation? I don't want the whole slackware to take my entire 60GB

))
I would like my slack to be on 1 logical disk only...
I understand the swap and root partitions... they must be done within the logical disk...
I think, i also understand the rest of installation procedure... except 1 thing:
How to set up the default run level? I need run level 5 (Gnome or KDE)...
Later I will see what to do with next 2 partitions, for a while they will be empty or I will install rh9 again......
Greetings
philY

jailbait · 11-01-2003, 03:34 PM

"Do I need to prepare my hd before inserting the bootable CD?"

No. cfdisk can set up your new partition scheme regardless of the current condition of your hard drive.

"I want to have 3 logicall disks, 20GB each... Is it possible to do it with cfdisk during installation?"

Yes, provided what you call logical disks are the same things that cfdisk calls partitions.

"I would like my slack to be on 1 logical disk only...
I understand the swap and root partitions... they must be done within the logical disk..."

Yes, again what you call the logical disk is called a partition or primary partition by cfdisk and a partition within a primary partition is called a logical partition by cfdisk.

"How to set up the default run level? I need run level 5 (Gnome or KDE)..."

That is an option during the install. After the install you can change the default run level by editing /etc/inittab

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Skyline · 11-01-2003, 04:11 PM

Remember that Slackware uses

run level 4

for its graphical mode

su
root password

gedit /etc/inittab

change the

id:3:initdefault:

to

id:4:initdefault:

ie change the 3 to a 4 in this line

and save the file

and reboot

philY · 11-01-2003, 04:44 PM

Hi Jailbait,
Hi Skyline,

Quote:

Originally posted by jailbait
[B]

"I want to have 3 logical disks, 20GB each... Is it possible to do it with cfdisk during installation?"

Yes, provided what you call logical disks are the same things that cfdisk calls partitions.

I hope so... I will explain it another way what I have meant... I want to create hda, hdb, hdc or if I called that action windows way, disk C:, disk F, disk G (D and E are for cdrom and dvd) .... For instance if I had 3 hard drives inside of my computer they would be called that way. However I got only 1 hard drive and I want to divide it (partition it).. and pretend that I have 3 hard drives... Then I want to create swap, root partition, Linux partition, and anything that is required for 1 slack installation, only within hda or if I called this another way, on the disk C....
Is it possible to do it with cfdisk then?
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Skyline, Ok, run level 4, thanks... ty also for command lines...rh was simple with that

...
Greetings
philY

jailbait · 11-01-2003, 05:59 PM

"I want to have 3 logicall disks, 20GB each..."
That would waste a lot of disk space. I recommend three unequal size partitions.

"Then I want to create swap, root partition, Linux partition, and anything that is required for 1 slack installation, only within hda or if I called this another way, on the disk C....
Is it possible to do it with cfdisk then?"

Yes. The most common way to install Linux is to create 3 partitions:
/dev/hda1 is /boot - 512M
/dev/hda2 is swap - 512M
/dev/hda3 is / - all the remainder, approximately 59 Gigabytes

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philY · 11-01-2003, 06:25 PM

Hi Jailbait,

Quote:

Originally posted by jailbait
Yes. The most common way to install Linux is to create 3 partitions:
/dev/hda1 is /boot - 512M
/dev/hda2 is swap - 512M
/dev/hda3 is / - all the remainder, approximately 59 Gigabytes

Steve Stites

/dev/hda3 - I would like this one to be only about 18-19GB
And now I got 40GB free.... What to do with it? Shall I partition it some way?
Or should I leave my 40GB free (untouched) and use it for RH9 installation later?

Greetings
philY

jailbait · 11-01-2003, 07:56 PM

"/dev/hda3 - I would like this one to be only about 18-19GB
And now I got 40GB free.... What to do with it? Shall I partition it some way?
Or should I leave my 40GB free (untouched) and use it for RH9 installation later?"

Either way is OK.

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Steve Stites

philY · 11-02-2003, 09:17 AM

Hi Jailbait,
TY for help... I did understand everything now

...
I made the mistake in first place... If I had only 1 hard drive I would not be able to create dev/hdb... It can be only hda1,.2.3, etc... However I got it

... It took me a while to understand it, but previeously I had 2 hard drives....And my questions were confusing only...Thank You again!
Greetings
philY