LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition-- SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread PRAKHAR gaur
Thanks for the help. I have mounted the partition on /mnt/lfs Its not mounted anywhere else. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-04 Thread Robb Bossley
Regarding the mounting question: You can mount this partition anywhere, including on top of already populated folders! Be careful! On 7/3/10, linux fan wrote: > On 7/3/10, Ken Moffat wrote: > >>> destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little >>> too small if many things

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread linux fan
On 7/3/10, Ken Moffat wrote: >> destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little >> too small if many things will be installed (a typical desktop system >> with lots of goodies). > > I shudder to think about what you are using to fill that up ;) I'm > still happy with 3GB f

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On 3 July 2010 14:28, linux fan wrote: >> If the 50GB host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5) is needed to run (yes, >> I think), then you need to use a separate partition to contain the >> destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little >> too small if many t

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On 3 July 2010 14:28, linux fan wrote: > If the 50GB host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5) is needed to run (yes, > I think), then you need to use a separate partition to contain the > destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little > too small if many things will be installed

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread linux fan
On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur wrote: > > Dear All, > > I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the > host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5). > Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs. > Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already mounted in /media. > If t

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread littlebat
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:27:17 +0530 shashank kumar wrote: > > Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already mounted > > in /media. > > > > two things... > 1. if a partition is already mounted you cant mount it again unless it > is first unmounted. According to my experience, we can dupl

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread Prashant R Keshvani (Baijoo)
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Robb Bossley wrote: > If you are comfortable with using ext3 vs ext4 or rieserfs or some > other filesystem, it should be fine. Make sure it doesn't have > anything in it and it should work fine. > > On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > I alre

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread Andrew Benton
On 03/07/10 09:57, shashank kumar wrote: > Hey > I am a newbie too ... correct me if I am wrong.. > > > > >> I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the >> host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5). >> Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs. > > If you are NOT usin

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread Robb Bossley
If you are comfortable with using ext3 vs ext4 or rieserfs or some other filesystem, it should be fine. Make sure it doesn't have anything in it and it should work fine. On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur wrote: > > Dear All, > > I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the >

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-03 Thread shashank kumar
Hey I am a newbie too ... correct me if I am wrong.. > I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the > host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5). > Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs. If you are NOT using this partition for any other work, go ahead and make

LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-02 Thread PRAKHAR gaur
Dear All, I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5). Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs. Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already mounted in /media. Thanking you, Prakhar Gaur