Re: Hard Drive install of RH6.1

[Adam Getchell <acgetchell ucdavis edu>]

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Hi all,

I stepped around this problem by installing a newer CD player that recognized
the CD-RW disc. So, I can theoretically install from the CD.

Having attempted this, I wanted to upgrade my existing system. However, my
partition scheme has only 500 MB on root, and upgrade seems to want 1.7GB(!).
Any suggestions on increasing the size of root?

Here's my partition structure:

/dev/hda7	/ 	 500M
/dev/hda1	/boot	   16M
/dev/hda10	/home	3423M
/dev/hda9	/usr	 3423M
/dev/hda8	/var	   500M
/dev/hda5	swap
/dev/hda6	swap

Home is 50% used, /usr is 40% used, root is 93%.

E.G., swipe a 2GB drive somewhere and extend root onto it ---
copy root and home into usr, merge / and /home, copy root and /usr into the new
directory, remount /usr as /home ---
Just bite the bullet and reinstall everything but keeping /home ---

Suggestions are welcome!





On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Adam Getchell wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm attempting to install RH6.1 from my hard drive. I've made a /Redhat
> directory on /hda10, which is my mount point for /home. I don't have
> space to put it on root. I've also copied the RPMS directory and the
> base directory, which has 3 files: comps, hdlist, and stage2.img.
> 
> The install fails when loading the second stage image. Is there a way to
> check the integrity of the img file? Am I missing something in my setup.
> And, BTW, I got these files from an .iso image that I burned onto a CD
> - -RW which is being served via FTP (this particular CD drive doesn't seem
> to recognize it) ... does someone have another format they'd recommend
> (with the image file?).
> 
> Thanks,
> - -- 
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