At 01:32 PM 03/01/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > Ron,
> >
> > Just install as follows. (you can vary it after the swap
> > and / partitions.)
> >
> > sda1 - swap, 110M.
> > sda2 - / (root) 400M
> > sda3 - /usr 3000M
> > sda4 - extended partion for remainder of hd
> > sda5 - /home (whatever amount)
> > sda6 - /opt (same as above)
> > -- etc, you might want a seperate /var, etc.
> >
> > Basically, it depends on what your going to
> > do with the system. (workstation, server, etc.)
> >
> > The key is the first 2 partitions, notice how
> > they reside within the hd limit. ;)
> >
>No. The problem is that the kernel doesn't have the SCSI
>drivers compiled as part of the kernel, they are MODULAR.
>If they kernel doesn't know how to "talk SCSI" how is it
>going to read the rest of the files it needs to boot?
this is not an issue (i don't believe) if linux knew this when it did the
install, since the appropriate scsi driver would have been load in the
ramdisk image...
