Very Computer

Been beating on these installs for weeks and loving every minute of
it :-)

I now have a system with 2 hard drives installed, a 500m IDE and a 4
gig SCSI. I cant boot off the SCSI so I want to use the IDE to boot,
and the 4 gig for storage. I am using Caldera 2.2; can I choose exaclty
where to install programs? In the past it seems it just dumps
everything in default locations, and I am afraid it will just tell me
the 500 megs isnt enough (which it is not, but will it ignore the 4
gigs on the SCSI?)

Alternativly, are there any guidlines for partitioning the disks? i.e.
how big to make / and the various other partitions?

Thanks,

Tony

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Your boot image does not need to be on the / filesystem. The /
filesystem does not need to be on the devices which is the boot device.

i.e. your root partition "/" can be /dev/sda1  even when the system
boots off /dev/hda1

Here is how you do it.

fdisk /dev/hda to have a smallish partition of about 100 meg. This will
become /boot

Use the rest of the disk for something like swap space.

Partition the 4 gig SCSI disk in to a number of partitions depending on
your anticipated usage. I guess about equal amounts each to / , /home,
/usr, /var and /opt. This is by no means a recommendation, and in fact,
if you are still learning lots, I would perhaps recommend leaving it as
one large partition, just /

So, assuming the latter, your setup looks something like /dev/sda1 = /
and /dev/hda1 = /boot, and /dev/hda2 = swap.

Now, set up your system. I am unsure of Caldera, but it will have a
rescue disk system, and boot off that creating the above partitions.
Make the /dev/sda1 your root partition, and /hda1 the /boot partition.
Install the system.

Now, the kernel images should be installed in /boot, and every time you
recompile the kernel, the new image should be moved to this directory /
filesystem.

Lilo will, by default, install on to /dev/hda, so there will be little
to reconfigure, and since the /boot directory is on the same disk, you
should be A for OK.

All the best.

gus