Re: Getting Fedora to work

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ulrich wrote:
>> There was a question about /usr and / being in the same partition. I'm
>> bringing /home up in its own partition, but everything else shares a
>> partition (except my windows partition. I'm not going to let my Linux
>> installation touch my Win2K partition).
> That said, my install runs through the point that it tries to boot. It
> 
> I spent hard time with FC5 und XP dual boot.
> Only after reading some side remarks in koflers LINUX book, i found out
> 
> 1. Partitioning with the LVM (like fedora does is, when you don't interfere)
> is the major obstacle.

I didn't use LVM. I'd like to claim some intelligent insight on that,
but the truth is that I'm not that familiaar with LVM so I rejected it
in favor of what I am familiar with.
> 
> (i) LVM requires some additional configurations to grub for transfering the
> boot image (dual boot with XP).
> (ii) its no good idea to have the /boot and swap under LVM
> 

> (iii) if you want to apply LVM with dual boot, just do it to the / and if
> necessary to /home, /usr etc. For a workstation LVM is no good idea at all.

I appreciate the insight here. As I said, I'm not that familiar with
LVM. It's not the problem here though - I didn't use it.

> 
> (iv) try manual partitioning /boot  150 kB  swap 1-2 MB  rest as available
> (min 8 GB)

I may try reinstalling later today with a simpler partitioning scheme. I
have 2 hard drives, so I can't get to something as simple as you
suggest. Maybe /windows and /home on drive hda and /boot, swap and / on
drive b. Thoughts?

---Michael



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