Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-05 Thread Mikkel
On 03/04/2010 09:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: First error, recommending DD. It will not allow a /boot partition to exceed 199 megabytes. My present, and fully functional /boot is 400. And its 56% used. I should to some housekeeping I guess. Delete the old 2.6.32 kernels, they are so old

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-05 Thread Mikkel
On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Craig White wrote: DD is just an overlay to fdisk and anything that DD does, is nothing that anyone can't replicate by using fdisk manually prior to, or as suggested to the OP upthread, simultaneous to the installation.

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Craig White wrote: DD is just an overlay to fdisk and anything that DD does, is nothing that anyone can't replicate by using fdisk manually prior to, or as suggested to the OP upthread, simultaneous to the installation. I never cease to be amused at your ability to

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 March 2010, birger wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: In this case, same motherboard, same sata0 connector. This board has 6 or 7 sata ports. 4 in use ATM. But not the same drive, right? No, a 60 day old, 500Gb 3Gbs drive that failed, vs a fresh 1T

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Mikkel wrote: On 03/03/2010 09:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Mikkel wrote: I had a setup behaved like that. The difference was caused by moving the SATA drive from one system to another. The second system supported 3.0 Gbps and the first one

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread Mikkel
On 03/04/2010 09:53 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Well, I just picked it up to see, there is a jumper, on the two of 4 pins farthest from the cable connector. Looking at the fine print with a 20 power glass would seem to indicate that it is the 1.5Gbs limit jumper. NDI how one would go about

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Mikkel wrote: On 03/03/2010 11:45 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: I would use the rescue CD-ROM since it doesn't automatically start an installer, that's why. Almost any LiveCD will do, and the Fedora one would do fine. The install CD-ROM wants to start installing, and so I don't like that. My

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread birger
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: What disk docs? The only thing they put in the box these days is the legal disclaimers. As for the bios, well, its an ASUS, what can I say. The latest bios update took 3 burns before it worked right. Most resellers only push

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 23:20 +0100, birger wrote: We old-timers must not forget that times are a-changing. Hardware evolves. Old truths die. We must never think that just because we had the answers yesterday we still have them today. Me, I think

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:15 +0530, Jatin K wrote: thank you for you reply . I've got the answer for craig white will do according to him and let list to know if it works or not The same thing as what I'd already said... I have to wonder if you're learning to pass the test or

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Jatin K
On 03/03/2010 02:58 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:15 +0530, Jatin K wrote: thank you for you reply . I've got the answer for craig white will do according to him and let list to know if it works or not The same thing as what I'd already said... I have to

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:43 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On 03/03/2010 11:26 AM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 16:38 +0530, Jatin K wrote: how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in exercise ?? One answer: Use a command line

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
if you write I know everything about Linux/Unix in your CV .. I think it will not be considerable I've been running Linux on my own boxes since 1994 or so, and not just on x86 machines, but Old World PowerPC Macintoshes as well, both Debian and MkLinux, which was an Apple-sponsored project

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Jatin K wrote: first of all you have to pass the test ( if I'm not wrong )... then and then you only become the _certified _professional is it ??? if you write I know everything about Linux/Unix in your CV .. I think it will not be considerable if you wanna write RHCE

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Paul
Mike McCarty wrote: If I wanted to do a custom partition install, I wouldn't run the standard install disc, and then try to break out of it somehow, and do something behind the installer's back, and then resume the install. I'd use a stand-alone rescue type CD-ROM to boot, partition the disc

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 05:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: before you actually start with disk druid in anaconda, you just switch to virtual console ControlAltF2 and then run 'fdisk /dev/sda' and create your partitions in fdisk, switch back to anaconda ControlAltF7 and then use the partitions you

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 05:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: before you actually start with disk druid in anaconda, you just switch to virtual console ControlAltF2 and then run 'fdisk /dev/sda' and create your partitions in fdisk, switch back to anaconda

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Mikkel
On 03/03/2010 06:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: As usual, Craig White cannot ever be wrong. I had a wife like that, 25 years ago. When she left, I bought a 6 pack to celebrate. My penance in hell was over. But I will state this real simply as a question: This machine, a slow 2.1Ghz quad

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: If I wanted to do a custom partition install, I wouldn't run the standard install disc, and then try to break out of it somehow, and do something behind the installer's back, and then resume the install. I've done that plenty of times, as

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Mikkel wrote: On 03/03/2010 06:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: As usual, Craig White cannot ever be wrong. I had a wife like that, 25 years ago. When she left, I bought a 6 pack to celebrate. My penance in hell was over. But I will state this real simply as a

partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-02 Thread Jatin K
Dear *, I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE hard-disk ) I'm trying to create following partition layout *Partition* *Size* *Use* *Comment* hda1 100MB /boot Maintains boot files hda2

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 16:38 +0530, Jatin K wrote: how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in exercise ?? One answer: Use a command line tool, like fdisk, that does exactly what you tell it to, rather than a GUI tool which works in the manner it thinks best. Over the last

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
I'll prefix my answer by saying I don't know the RHCE exam, and that you're asking that question in the wrong way. Write your subject line to attract the attention of the right people, don't assume everyone reads every message on this list. e.g. RHCE exam query about disk druid partitioning

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-02 Thread Jatin K
On 03/03/2010 12:01 PM, Tim wrote: I'll prefix my answer by saying I don't know the RHCE exam, and that you're asking that question in the wrong way. Write your subject line to attract the attention of the right people, don't assume everyone reads every message on this list. e.g. RHCE exam

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-02 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: One answer:  Use a command line tool, like fdisk, that does exactly what you tell it to, rather than a GUI tool which works in the manner it thinks best. The very best tool for partitioning exactly the way you tell it to