[ale] partition magic

[miff at Onramp.NET (miff)]

Thanks much for your insight..

>        Part of the installation process is to specify the various filesystems
>        that you want Linux to mount.  One of them would be your DOS partition
>        with something like /dev/hda1.  Later on the installation is going to
>        ask you the medium from where you want to install and you'll say
>        hard drive at which time (I think) it'll ask you the drive and then
>        it'll mount the same.  I'm not sure of the order of events but I'm sure
>        that's how it'll know where to look for the disk sets.
>
>        I was equally ignorant the first time I installed Slackware...

how embarassing - I have installed, compiled, etc. linux countless times in
the past - just never, ever messed with dos partitions....

Thanks again for your help.  I'll let ya know how it goes and perhaps next
time I'll answer the questions.

peace 

-miff


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