how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default,

RE: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread David Rawling
-Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default, /, /var

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:03:03 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: anybody remember what keys to hit in the installation procedure? Let me access my brain... open(brain); Start installation which brings up sysinstall. Choose CUSTOM. First set up slice in FDISK, press 'd' to nuke 'em

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question