question for GRML users

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

I might try Ubuntu.  Still hoping I can get FC6 installed and working, but
we'll see.

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: question for GRML users


> 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 at verizon.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at 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 at rnibncw.ac.uk>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: question for GRML users
> >
> >
> >> 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 at verizon.net>
> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> > <speakup at 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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