According to L. A. Mulieri: While burning my CPU. > > > /root and / are two "completly different things". > > > > / is where the "WHOLE" linux directory structure resides, (if one chooses to > > install everything under "/") > > > > /root is an "EMPTY" directory after installing linux and booting for the > > first time. Its the "$HOME" directory of the "superuser" and nothing else. > > > > If the origanal question asker where to read your explanation on this > > matter, he would now be even more confused than he was BEFORE asking the > > question in the first place. > > I'll say I'm confused. It seems that neither the Red Hat 5.2 Installation > Guide nor O'Reilly have a clear explanation of this either. I have just > finished my second try at installing 5.2 in Custom mode (trying to take > the harder route in order to learn something as I've gathered is > desireable from this list and I agree) and this time I got through to the > Congratulations etc. But when I tried to boot up to C:\ (that's the only > HD choice my BIOS presents) I got the message that no operating system > could be found. At install time you are asked to assign "/" to a device, the device being the designated linux partition(s) which were created by fdisk under your instructions. The install askes you to define the place (device) by saying something like; Where do you want to install the "root filesystem" which is the "/" directory, it will also show you the possablitys like; /dev/hda1 you assign /dev/hda1 to / basicly thats it. There are other possablitys like assigning /dev/hda2 to /usr for example. I suggest that you read the following HOWTO which should be on the cdrom located in; /doc/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO Goto section 6.6.2 and read on from there, that explanes what i am saying in my statement above in much more detail and gives very good examples. > > Is the problem that Linux assigns hda to the HD while my > Gatesian BIOS only expects C:?? I have no knowlage of that BIOS. > > Or is the problem related to my choices? E.g., after typing in my password > the Linux installation program asked: > > Where do you want to install the bootloader? > /dev/hda Master Boot Record > /dev/hda1 First sector of boot partition > > I chose the second one. But I'm very uncertain about this because I did > not add a boot sector earlier on in the installation thinking that it > would automatically be added to /. I did have / in hda1. I'm sorry I > can't be more specific but it would really help if someone could tell me: I would install lilo on the MBR, just a small note here, when partitioning large drives, (more than 512Mb) it is adviseable to create /dev/hda1 within the 1023 cyls boundry, doing so will eliminate (or should eliminate) problems with LILO and large drives. Read (cdrom) doc/HOWTO/mini/LILO for more details on that. Reading is realy the best thing to do first, you can of course ask unanswered questions to me or the list after you have read and digested all of the files mentioned above. Just a small footnote, You say you have installed linux and got the "Congrats" message but you cant boot, you could use the "rescue floppy" as follows to "try" to boot linux. place the floppy in the drive of course, start the machine, at the prompt type; mount root=/dev/hda1 ro Where /dev/hda1 is where your "root filesystem" is situated. If you are succsesfull in booting, the HOWTO's are located in /usr/doc/* You could then edit /etc/lilo.conf if it is there, if not create it and follow the examples given in the LILO mini-HOWTO and rerun lilo to install it on the MBR. I am quite sure others will comment on your questions as well. Hope this all helps. Good luck. > > Thank you all again for helping. > > Lou Mulieri > Hinesburg, VT > -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
