Re: question for GRML users

["Chris Norman" <cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk>]

You're absolutely right, I forgot about all the stuff in them LOL. Why not 
give Ubuntu a go? It's all the rage at the minute.

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton@verizon.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: question for GRML users


>I tried that first.  I didn't see a way to put the things that would belong
> there in the /boot partition I'd made and put the rest in the /root one.
> Unless I'm wrong, this is how Fedora and at least some other versions of
> Linux get installed.  My understanding is that this is a way to give what
> you need for booting up--at least much of it--some extra protection 
> against
> corruption.  (My FC2, which was installed for me where I'd bought the
> computer, had a small boot partition, a swap one, and the root one where
> everything else was.  I wanted to add a home one this time because of 
> common
> advice.)
>
> Thanks for the reply, though, and more thoughts of course welcome,
> especially if I'm getting something wrong here.
>
> Al
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk>
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> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: question for GRML users
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>
>> Why not just use fdisk on the live CD, create your partitions, install
> grml
>> to one of them, and then update fstab when you log in?
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Chris Norman
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton@verizon.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:59 PM
>> Subject: question for GRML users
>>
>>
>> > Greetings!  This question's particularly for people who have installed
>> > GRML on their hard drives, which I did last night.  (I may return to
>> > Fedora if I can find out either what I'm doing wrong or what it's doing
>> > wrong when I try to install it via the CD images, but that's another
>> > matter.)
>> >
>> > From what I've read and what the GRML install looks like to me, it 
>> > seems
>> > GRML is designed to install entirely on one partition, which it then
> makes
>> > bootable.  Has anyone installed it instead so that there's a separate,
>> > small boot partition?  I'd like to have a /boot, /root, /swap, and 
>> > /home
>> > partition if I can.  I'll be grateful for any advice, even if it ends 
>> > up
>> > being that I can't install GRML that way.  Thanks!
>> >
>> > Al
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