Re: [Thinkpad] 600x and Linux

Adam [Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:49:03AM -0230]:
> I stopped the install. The Thinkpad wouldn't let me remove the CD
> while the install was running.

It's normal when you're running Linux or BSD Unix on your hardware. Before
the CD drive is accessed, it must be mounted. Mounting automatically locks
the tray, so you can't open it while the drive is in use. Remember those
blue screens happening every time, when you ejected a CD currently being
used in Windows 98 ? Well, they don't happen on Unix.

> So I had to turn it off. I check the
> Red Hat CD. But it doesn't seem to contain an Fdisk program.

Well, fdisk might be packed together with other utilities in some image,
which is installed as a ram disk during installation. That's why I told you
about using console while the installer is running.

> I was reading about the Disk Druid. This mount point that it refers
> to, is that like any name that you come up with. And this is placed
> in the main directory?

If you create single partition for your Linux installation, it will be
mounted as a root directory (it's name will be simply '/'). If you create
other partitions, you can tell the installer to automatically setup them to
be mounted at certain mount points (eg. /usr, /var, /mysecondpartition and
such).

As our discussion is getting a bit OT, I'd suggest reading
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ or
how-to documents from http://tldp.org , then, if you're in doubt, e-mail my
private account.

I'd use DiskDruid to create just one partition (it's a wise setup for a
desktop/laptop system), with about 3 - 8 GB of free space (you won't need
more if you're just learning/testing it; you can use your windows partition
to share files with Windows installation); also about 200 - 300 MB of swap
partition would be ok for a desktop.

Regards,

-- 
Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl
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