Re: Help with Linux.

[Subbiah Muthukalayappan <subbiahm@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have been able to setup the new hard disk. Thanks for the info. 

Rightnow, I am using a floppy disk to boot linux. If I dont use the
linux boot floppy, The C-Drive automatically boots MS-DOS. Now, what
should I do so that I can get a choose between MS-DOS and Linux at the
time of booting - This is because If the floppy gets corrupted or
something of that sort, then I wont be able to boot linux (or is there
any other way?!). Currently all files related to Linux are present in my
E drive. The hard disks are like this,
Hard disk 1 has the drives C, D and E (/boot and stuff lie in E)
Hard disk 2 has the drive F (The new disk that I added to get some more
disk space).

C and D are used for MS-DOS. E and F are used for linux.

Can someone please help me with this.....

Thanks in advance
Subbiah

S Ravi Shankar wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:33:02PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote:
> -> open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed
> -> to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this
> -> problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and
> -> stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install
> -> this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO
> -> bootloader now?
> 
>         assuming you are connecting the new harddisk as secondary master [a
> new cable that goes to another slot in the motherboard] do the
> following:
> 
> use "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make it a single partition [/dev/hdc1]
> "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1" will create the file system for linux.
> "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home" will make  the new hard disk act as the
> /home partition. [copy any existing files to another place before
> mounting and then copy them back here].
> add the following entry to your /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc1               /home                   ext2    defaults 1 1
> 
>         this will mount the file system in the new hard disk as /home
> everytime you boot up.
>         You are not able to open temporary files because there is no room
> left in the old hard disk. to overcome this do the following.
> "rm -rf /tmp"  remove the existing /tmp
> "mkdir /home/tmp"  create tmp in the new harddisk
> "chmod 777 /home/tmp"
> "chmod +t /home/tmp"  the default settings of /tmp
> "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp"  make /home/tmp act as /tmp
>         now you can work freely
> --
> With Regards,
> 
> S Ravi Shankar
> 
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