grml 1.0 hasn't installed yet

Marcel Oats moats at orcon.net.nz
Sat Aug 11 19:03:10 EDT 2007


Hi, try making hda1 the linux partition, and hda2 swap; I think 
grml2hd looks at the first partition.  I got it to work that way when 
I tried it.
Marcel
At 09:59 a.m. 12/08/2007, you wrote:
>I used fdisk and created hda1 as type 82 linux swap/solaris.  I created
>hda2 as the slash partition.  grml2hd now complains about hda1 not seeming
>to be a linux partition and it's right that could be a solaris partition
>too. What I don't know is if I create a 20gb partition and leave 256MB
>without a partition is grml2hd capable of making that 256MB a swap
>partition by itself or will it freak out again since it wasn't given a
>swap partition? I could also simply partition the whole 20GB as a single
>type 83 linux partition and find out if grml2hd will freak out over not
>having a swap partition available.  Normally when possible I make the swap
>partition the first since that way I have the right size for it and on
>versions of Linux that will allow it I can use the rest of the drive for
>remaining partitions.
>
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