[lug] partitioning a build machine
Peter Hutnick
peter-lists at hutnick.com
Tue May 27 13:19:37 MDT 2003
Peter Hutnick said:
> Michael J. Hammel said:
>
>> Is this a good way of doing this? Should I leave the other partitions
>> alone when I do my install of the other distributions (just specifying
>> which is to be the root mount point)? Can the boot diskettes know
>> which partition to use as their root and which ones to leave alone?
>
> See "man rdev"
>
> Don't put filesystems in other systems /etc/fstab.
>
> But why not use GRUB?
Or in Haiku:
Peruse man rdev,
Don't clutter your fstab,
GRUB beats a floppy.
It's not my fault. I'm reading Fight Club right now. "I am the Zen
master. I am the calm little center of the Universe."
-Peter
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