Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > I knew it would degenerate to this. Back then I asked for howto's, got > and printed several, all of which failed to produce the desired results, > I assume because steps done were not all recorded.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00153.html > So please David, don't defend what I call a broken installer by saying it > can be done, instead write the tutorial telling us how it can be done to > do it the way we want it done. So prove it by making the howto public > knowledge. Anything else is a waste of server bandwitdh. I keep notes of what I do where it varies from what's considered standard and documented. I'm not going to waste my time merging those notes with the installation manual. > I want a separate /home PARTITION, and a separate /opt PARTITION. And I > cannot understand why that is not possible with this installer. So prove > me wrong, I'll be waiting right here, with apologies loaded. I used to put /usr on a separate partition and /var, /tmp and /home shared another. Now only /home. Here's how I remembered what to do: $ ls -l pc/configure/out-of-date/installation-bo -rw-r----- 1 david david 11264 Sep 18 1998 pc/configure/out-of-date/installation-bo $ head -59 pc/configure/out-of-date/installation-bo Installation of Debian 1.3 (bo) on 1199469 (kilt). Switched IDE from secondary to primary, releasing IRQ 15. Booted to CMOS and set to boot from floppy. Booted DOS from boot floppy, inserted EtherDisk and ran PNPDSABL. This runs 3C5X9CFG /PNPRST 3C5X9CFG CONFIGURE /PNP:DISABLED Then ran 3c5x9cfg again and made sure IRQ was 15. Booted to W95 and named the partitions so I delete the right one. Booted with Debian 1.3.0 rescue disk: 1997-05-30/resc1440.bin 4June 05:10 Color Kbd UK Old partition scheme /dev/sdb 73heads 63sectors 1020cylinders cyl sectors MB /dev/sdb1 Primary Win95 FAT32 (0B) 1020 4690980 2290.52 I don't know why the geometry changed when I deleted the partition. Partition disk /dev/sdb 74heads 62sectors 1022cylinders cyl sectors MB /dev/sdb1 Primary Linux swap (82) 54 247752 120.98 /dev/sdb2 Boot Primary Linux (83) 14 64232 31.37 /dev/sdb3 Primary Linux 268 1229584 600.39 /dev/sdb4 Primary Linux 686 3147368 1536.81 which was, when empty, 1022 4688936 2289.52 Write, quit. Initialise and activate swap /dev/sdb1 Scan, sure (if this has to be repeated at any stage, then I don't scan) Initialise linux partition /dev/sdb2 Scan, sure, / Initialise linux partition /dev/sdb3 Scan, sure, /usr (creates /target/usr). Initialise linux partition /dev/sdb4 Scan, sure, /kilt (creates /target/kilt). Switched to console 2, pressed return and typed: mkdir /target/kilt/var mkdir /target/kilt/tmp mkdir /target/kilt/home cd /target ln -s kilt/var var ln -s kilt/tmp tmp ln -s kilt/home home ^D and back to 1. Install Operating System Kernel and Modules Verify Filesystem Choice /dev/sdb1 /, 3 /usr, 4 /kilt, all ext2 (rw): yes Medium for installation /dev/fd0 Insert rescue disk (already there). Insert drivers disk. Configure Device Driver Modules: $ ... and another 300 lines of what seems like drivel now but was stuff I thought I might forget at the time. Nowadays, only /home is separate. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150403173553.gb10...@alum.home
