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Old 03-05-2003, 07:58 PM   #16
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THanks to everyone here... My CDROM is not working, thats why I was unable to boot from cd or find the source for the installation... The machine I'm talking about is a P-Celeron@300 Mghz with 4GB... Now I have to buy me a new CD-ROM. or maybe I'll uninstall one from my other machine and install it there till I finish the SLack Setup... But now I'm planning to add a partition to this machine that I use (Redhat 8, P-Celeron@566 Mghz and 20GB).. SO I'm reading the HOW-TO parted, I want to make 2 partitions or even 3, since I also plan to install Debian, but I'm kind of confuse about having the 3 OS use the same /boot partition.... BUt if I encounter any trouble I'll post it here. Thanks to everyone for your help... Or if you have any suggestions on how to make 2 partitions without having to format the redhat partition, you know like make this partition smaller without loosing any data... Feel free to let me know.. Thanks once again.

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Old 03-05-2003, 09:28 PM   #17
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if u use compile kernel yourself, i don't think there's a problem of sharing /boot(where kernel is) .. otherwise i'm not sure..

also u can share /home partition, i think

and if u install program from source on /usr/local (and i don't think rpm goes anywhere under /usr/local) you might be able to share that too.

for any distro 2.5-3g seems enough for / if u seperate /home and /usr/local

i recommend partition magic for any partition handling.
 
Old 03-05-2003, 09:49 PM   #18
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if u use compile kernel yourself,.
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I never done this before..... ANd I don't think that I could use Partition Magic to partition Redhat since this is the only OS running on this machine.. I don't have Windows here, I had it on the other machine.. BUt yesterday it was formated.. Thanks for your post.
 
Old 03-05-2003, 10:48 PM   #19
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i think there's *nix partition handler that can do resizing..
maybe fips. you might want to search board with 'resize partition'

by the way, about /usr/local sharing, i think sometimes some programs don't work together if two different gcc were used to compile.
(eg, mozilla, galeon)
then i would get source gcc and install it under /usr/local =)
(never done this, hope someone else clarify it)

/home should be fine.
and /boot directory doesn't take much (3-10mg) i wouldn't worry about wasting that.
 
Old 04-25-2003, 08:29 AM   #20
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I have had this same problem with cfdisk.
I try to reinstall slack 9 on vmware 4.
The second time around installing i got this fatal error.
I thought it may have something with the MBR.
After a few atempts still not luck.
//k-9u
 
Old 04-25-2003, 12:35 PM   #21
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if you have other machines you can do a net install by booting by floppy. The server needs to share the files on the cdrom


you can have a lot of distros on one /boot partition, no problem.

just put all the kernels there. I would install without a boot partition and then mount the boot partition somewhere and copy the needed files there naming them something like this

vmlinuz-rh-2.4.20-9
vmlinuz-sw-2.4.20

etc

then be sure to have a lilo.conf with all of the images in it, /boot would be a logical place for it.

copy the lilo.conf to /etc on each distro if you want to be able to run lilo on them.

then you should add /boot to your /etc/fstab and set it to not automount

/dev/hda? /boot ext3 noauto,owner 1 1


this will prevent the /boot partition from being damaged. you can mount it as needed

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Old 04-29-2003, 03:05 PM   #22
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If you check your bios, the only option for me for Boot Options that CD-ROM would pop up on is option1, and it took me 3 months(well, I kindof did other stuff during that time) to realize that I didn't have to update my BIOS(I had all of my disks ready, and was REALLY close to updating it, but I decided to check through my BIOS and all of its settings....
So check the first option in Boot Options in your BIOS and doublecheck that you can or cannot boot off of your CD. Booting off of CD's is so much better and easier than off of multiple floppies....
 
Old 04-29-2003, 03:19 PM   #23
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Thanks i some how came right.
I changed the iso name and the directory that it needs to install in.
I allso chaned the location were i was installing.
Reinstalled vmware4 and chaned the hard drive setting in vmware.
Some how it let me install. Thanks for the feed back guys.
//K
 
  


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