Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > I had the same problem !
> >
> > Disk Druid absolutely want to install the / partition on the primary HD :(
> > The only way to make the / partition is to use fdisk instead of disk druid
> > during the installation processus.
> >
> It also doesn't help that they're trying to install on a Windows
> partition. :-) They'll need to change the type, or just wipe the
> secondary hard drive completely, removing ALL partitions.

        A few weeks ago I installed Mdk 6.0 on my 2nd HDD.  I
have hda split into 2 fat32 partitions for W98.  I divided hdb
into 2 partitions, the 2nd one also being fat32 which I intended
to, and do, use as a shared partition,eg.,I store .mp3's,.jpg's,
and downloaded files which either o/s can access. I keep this
2nd partition, hdb5, permantly mounted with a 'fstab' entry.

     If I understand the Disk Druid confusion y'all are talking
about, I believe it's what sort'a stumped me at first.  Druid
seemed to insist on adding '/' and '/swap' to hda.  I finally
noticed that at one point early into Druid it listed both hda
and hdb as 'available', ie., both had '*'s in front of them.
When I removed the '*' from hda, Druid finally figured out that
I wanted to put '/ and /swap' on hdb and to leave hdb5 alone
also.  The only 'confused o/s after that was W98, for some
reason I had to run the fat32 conversion utility on hdb5 (W98
calls it E:\) to get Windows to accept it again.
--
..      Tom Brinkman    [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      .
 

I sent the original email about the problem i had with diskdruid.  The above
reference is a reply i got from a user in France.   Even when i remove the *
in front of hda it still put the hdb5 on drive hda.   Beleive me spent many
hours saturday trying to solve my problem.   Finaly after the email quoted
above, i used fdisk to partition my slave drive.   After it was finish i went
back to diskdruid.   My  3 partitions were created on my slave drive and i
just used diskdruid to edit and create   /    /home  and a swap area.
-- 
Roland Aubin                Centre Meteorologique Canadien
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       2121 Trans-Canada
(514)421-4648 off.          Montreal, Quebec
http://www.cmc.ec.gc.ca     Canada,   H9P 1J3
 


Reply via email to