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Post subject: How to install in many partitions?
 Posted: May 14, 2008 - 06:52 PM
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I would like to install sidux on a new machine using distinct partitions for the following:
/boot
/root
/var
/tmp
/home
/data
I am not sure if I can do that using the installer... Any other approach?
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Post subject: How to install in many partitions?
Posted: May 14, 2008 - 08:14 PM
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Location: Nördliche Lüneburger Heide
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Hello,
it is possible to spread your installation on more partitions but it requires pre-work before using the installer.
you need to create the partitons (gparted, fdisk) (i.e. /dev/sda1 for /boot and so on) and format it.
During use of the installer you can decide which partition can be used as root (i.e /dev/sda2 as / ) partition and you can also decide to where the other created partitions should be mounted (i.e. /dev/sda1 as /boot and so on). As I mentioned before those must already exist and being formated as the installer currently only formats the decided root-partition.
Hope this helps!
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Reiner Schmidt |
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Posted: May 14, 2008 - 09:58 PM
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I think the desired partition named "/data" may not be possible directly with the installer. As far as I can tell, it only offers the standard Linux named directories for mounting on additional partitions. The standard named directories, and associated partitions, can be selected during installation.
Of course, after installation, you may edit the /etc/fstab file and add the additional "/data" partition to be automatically mounted at system boot.
As schmidtreiner says, the partitions must be prepared before the installation. |
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Posted: May 14, 2008 - 10:06 PM
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Thank you
Any way always I use gparted before installation to arrange the disks. |
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Posted: May 15, 2008 - 11:19 AM
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I have been trying to understand the Linux file system, but it will take time, so how does placing the /bin, /boot etc in different partitions can be used to advantage ?
I keep data in other partitions than root, separate /home or not. /home keeps some user settings so you can retain them when you reinstall. But can one retain the installed packages in anyway ? |
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Post subject: How to install in many partitions?
Posted: May 15, 2008 - 11:55 AM
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Hi,
i am using a seperate Partiton (50MB) for /boot as I had some trouble in the past when grup or lilo could not find the kernels and imagefiles.
I might well be that this nowadays is not a problem but I kept this as it never made me problems (exept when I fill this little partition with too many kernels).
I am also using several SCSI-disks so spreading the installation between the is quite handy (i.e. Swap/Resume-Partition on a second drive).
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Reiner Schmidt |
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