On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Stew,
> Thank you for your quick response. All those nice things people are
> saying about you must be true. 8)
>
> If you don't mind, please clarify (or correct) the following two
> details:
>
> 1) You state that I should mount the isos, copy the contents to the hd
> partition (/dev/hda11), and place all of the RPMs into one folder,
> Mandrake/RPMS. Should the name of the directory be RPMS1 as on the
> iso or RPMS as you state above?
>
Nope - RPMS is the correct name, although you make get away with RPMS1,
RPMS2 under Mandrake - never tried it.
A caveat - if you combine them all together - now hdlists is wrong. If
you grab from the mirror, it is already setup in this manner. (don't know
if you have a high speed connection or not).
> 2) I'm working under the assumption that I can allow the installer to
> create the /home directory on the / (root) partition (hda10) and later
> change things in fstab such that the install directory (hda11) will be
> mounted as /home instead. Will this work? Are there any things I
> need to be careful of?
>
Why do it one way and then change? The installer can setup /home as
separate. Certainly you can move /home to another partition later, you
just need to make sure it's mounted with correct permissions, and all the
files copied to the new partition retain the correct permissions.
> Again, thanks for your help. If I keep banging on this Linux stuff
> long enough, I just might begin to know what I'm doing!
>
No problem - we all start somewhere ;^)
Stew Benedict
