Re: [TCLUG:13808] Newbie RH6.1 install

["sams" <sams@spacestar.net>]

Thanks for your help

I listed answers next to your questions

I am thinking that I missed some small but crucial step during setup which I
did in text expert.



-----Original Message-----
From: John J. Trammell <trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu>
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:13808] Newbie RH6.1 install


>Hello all:
>
>{tale of unhappy install snipped}
>
>OK, a few questions:
>
>1. what type of computer? ASUS board with AMD K2-400
>3. how big is your hard drive?  8.2gig
>4. what type (SCSI / IDE) hard drive?IDE
>5. is your hard drive master / slave / primary / secondary?
MASTER it is the only drive except for CDrom
>6. what is your partition scheme? I tried to go simple but hopefully
adjustable later



device boot   start/end   blocks   id     system
hda/tmp/4    1-1027    8249346  5   extended
hda/tmp/5     1-12         96327     82  linux swap
hda/tmp/6      13-1027  8152956 83 linux
>
>> On recent installs I have opted not to create a disk thinking
>> that would automatically setup system to boot from drive.
>
>I have never seen that to be the case.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
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