From: caadams@leo.unm.edu (Clifford A Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Beginner's Guide: Installation  (Possible errors?)
Summary: Possible confusion of partitions...
Keywords: linux, installation, partitions, correction
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:31:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.4aqjk-=
Distribution: alt
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM


	First of all, I would like to congratulate "I Reid" on an
excellent beginners guide.  I beleive there are some errors in the
hard disk installation part, however.  (It looks like a problem of not
updating some of the manual when other parts change.)  I could be
wrong, but the four parts below look really suspicious...

[here are appropriate headers and my comments on the guide]

From: eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid)
Subject: Beginner's Guide: Installation
Date: 2 Apr 92 22:18:33 GMT

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Section II: Installation to Hard Disk
[...]

3.
[...]
  then you use the "unnameable" command to partition your hard disk.
  The format of this command is

  n sys_id first_cluster last_cluster sys_name

  where n ............ is the partition number
        sys_id ....... is a magic number (ID in example above)
    and sys_name ..... is optional and should not be used ('cos it
                       makes things fail (strange but true)

[...]
  For the example disk I would type the following

pfdisk> 2 6 0 292
pfdisk> 1 128 293 521
[**********1: should these lines read:
           pfdisk> 1 6 0 292
	   pfdisk> 2 128 293 521
		    (swap the partition #s)]
  Explanation time..... partition 1 is now a Dos partition with 293
  clusters (0 to 292 inclusive). Partition 2 is a Linux partition with
  228 clusters.

  Last bit... last but not least is the 'a' command ('a' for active)
  which marks a partition as the one to boot from. I chose partiton 1
  (DOS) 'cos Linux cannot boot entirely from hard disk without some
  assistance (more later (eventually)). So ....

pfdisk> a 2
[**********2: should this read: "pfdisk> a 1" ?]

 4. That wasn't too bad was it? Now all you need to do is make a Linux
    filesystem, [...]

# fdisk

Disk 0:
    /dev/hda1:  61516 blocks active 16-bit DOS (>=32M)
    /dev/hda2:  48090 blocks unknown partition type 0x80
[...]

	Next you use the mkfs command (make filesystem) with the following
    format
 
    mkfs -c device blocks

    the -c option specifies that it should perform some checking as it
    works and the blocks figure is the one from fdisk (above). To make
    a file system on this partition I would type

# mkfs -c /dev/hda1 48090
[**********3 should this line be: "# mkfs -c /dev/hda2 48090" ?]

    Ah, finally.... you are ready to install to HD! Thanks to Jim
    Winstead's excellent installation scripts this is easy as pie so
    without further ado type the following

# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
[**********4 should this line be: "# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt" ?]

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	Again, thanks for the effort in making installation much easier...
I'm going to try Linux from floppy today, and will probably HD install
it as soon as I get positive replies to this message...

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