Red Hat 9.0 Install Help

[mddolloff]

I am trying to do an install of redhat 9.0 on my desktop at home. Because of my video card I have to do a text based install, but I believe that is no important here. When creating my partitions I created a /, /usr, swap, and a /share (/share I made vfat so I can share files between windows and linux). The problem is when I go to install it says that there is not enough room to install everything on the /usr partition. And indeed there isn't, but I want everything to be installed to the root partition and I can't figure out why it is doing that. I have used a similar approach on a different machine using Red Hat 8.0 and I had no problems with that. Any ideas?

 

[drag]

Why did you make a seperate /usr partition if you don't want to install anything on that? That's were all your programs go...

Maybe the new rd installer is better at automaticly using named partitions better then before....
( I don't know )

 

[Ynog]

I would advice droping the /usr partition. Do you really need it. I would just combine it with the / partition. One reason you might be running out of space is
that Redhat 9.0 might have more files in the /usr partition, vs Redhat 8.0.

I am not sure why you would like to have a /usr partition. I have found in my experience it is nothing but a pain. Without it you still get a /usr inside of the / partition.
This allows you to not have to worry about making /usr too big to deal with installation of new programs on /usr later, and you won't have to worry about it being
too small and running out of space.

 

[Hardware411]

Originally posted by: drag
Why did you make a seperate /usr partition if you don't want to install anything on that? That's were all your programs go...

Maybe the new rd installer is better at automaticly using named partitions better then before....
( I don't know )

personally i would want to tell you to dump the /usr partition and just have a "sfv" for boot and a "swap" - should be more or equal to the size of your memory then also your fat partition... but that irrelavent you can just not make the fat partition till later just leave space and just make it in windows and use a mount of the hard drive.

 

[mddolloff]

I had a /usr partition so that I could keep all the usr files seperate. I guess the new installer is better at catching this. When running 8.0 I just install everything to / and then only have the usr file in the /usr I'm just going to go ahead and ditch the /usr Thanks for the info guys.

 

[mddolloff]

Originally posted by: Hardware411

Originally posted by: drag
Why did you make a seperate /usr partition if you don't want to install anything on that? That's were all your programs go...

Maybe the new rd installer is better at automaticly using named partitions better then before....
( I don't know )

personally i would want to tell you to dump the /usr partition and just have a "sfv" for boot and a "swap" - should be more or equal to the size of your memory then also your fat partition... but that irrelavent you can just not make the fat partition till later just leave space and just make it in windows and use a mount of the hard drive.

Yeah is there a way to create the fat partition so that I don't have to be root to access it? When I did it on 8.0 I created it using the Disk Druid and in order to access it from Linux I have to log in as root.

 

[Hardware411]

have you worked with linux before, they are all seperate, /home directory has all users folders, u can retrict the access to higher levels of the drive... and it does that by default, plus it restricts installs for users and you can only install when ur in root.

 

[Hardware411]

ye make it in windows, the partition i mean, and just set a mount point on startup read up on that...

i really am not formilure with onstart mount points should not be more then a few lines of code.

 

[mddolloff]

Originally posted by: Hardware411
have you worked with linux before, they are all seperate, /home directory has all users folders, u can retrict the access to higher levels of the drive... and it does that by default, plus it restricts installs for users and you can only install when ur in root.

I've worked with Linux some, but I am pretty much a novice when it comes to installing the OS and other programs. I have only really done the install of the OS once or twice before and programs very rarely.

 

[mddolloff]

Originally posted by: Hardware411
ye make it in windows, the partition i mean, and just set a mount point on startup read up on that...

i really am not formilure with onstart mount points should not be more then a few lines of code.

Anyone famliar with how to do the startup mount points?

 

[Ynog]

mddolloff,

to get the /share fat partition to be written to by all users you have to change the
/etc/fstab file and mount it differently.

so it would be something like this.

/dev/hd? /share vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0

Its been a while since I have done this. But give that a try.

Edit: By the way, /dev/hd? is the partition to mount. I am not sure where your fat partition exists.
/share is the mount point. That directory has to exist before hand.
vfat is the filesystem type.

 

[Hardware411]

Originally posted by: Ynog
mddolloff,

to get the /share fat partition to be written to by all users you have to change the
/etc/fstab file and mount it differently.

so it would be something like this.

/dev/hd? /share vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0

Its been a while since I have done this. But give that a try.

Edit: By the way, /dev/hd? is the partition to mount. I am not sure where your fat partition exists.
/share is the mount point. That directory has to exist before hand.
vfat is the filesystem type.

/dev/hd?? for partitions usually goes by /dev/hd(hardrive a,b,c,d) (parition number 0,1,2,3,4,5...) thats all folks.

so /dev/hda0 is probably your window partition you can mount that also.

and so forth.

 

[mddolloff]

Thanks you guys have been great help. I am glad there are some people out there that know what is going on.

 

[mddolloff]

In case any of you were wondering I found a solution to the mounting to all users problem

add the following to the file discussed above

/dev/hd? /share vfat umask=000 0 0


That worked for me anyway.