Le lundi 05 novembre à 14:24, Alan Feuerbacher a écrit : > Howdy, > > I've done a major reset by giving up on installing an LFS system on my > old 32-bit computer, and am now installing it on a new 64-bit system. > The new system now has Fedora as the host system. It's installed on > /dev/sdb and I want to put LFS on a blank 256G SSD -- /dev/sda. > > In trying to format /dev/sda I'm running into a conceptual problem. I > partition the disk into: > > /dev/sda1 for /boot > /dev/sda2 Extended partition > /dev/sda5 swap > /dev/sda6 for / > /dev/sda7 for /usr > > and so forth. This is following the suggestions in the LFS book, section > 2.2.1.3. > > When I go to section 2.3 to create a file system "on the partition", the > book says: > > ################ > To create an ext3 file system on the LFS partition, run the following: > > mke2fs -jv /dev/<xxx> > > Replace <xxx> with the name of the LFS partition (hda5 in our previous > example). > ################ > > What should "<xxx>" be in the above example? > > I'm confused because the book speaks of "THE" LFS partition, as if there > were just one, but there are obviously a number of partitions.
The right one is / (/dev/sda6) and in next section you'll see that you'll have to mount /usr (don't forget to create the filesystem for it). IMHO, the /boot can wait but you'll have to take it in consideration later. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
