Installing an old linux on a new pc
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Installing an old linux on a new pc
Okay, so I'm putting Red Hat verion 4 or so on a pc. I have already partitioned and repartitioned, and the last step in the instalation is telling it where to install. (they're calling it a mount point) I need to know what I put for the mount point. Any help?
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Re: Installing an old linux on a new pc
Well, I don't fuck around on Red Hat except as work occasionally requires. I'd suggest a different distro; one, perhaps, gentler to a newbie -- Ubuntu being pretty user friendly.The Apprentice wrote:Okay, so I'm putting Red Hat verion 4 or so on a pc. I have already partitioned and repartitioned, and the last step in the instalation is telling it where to install. (they're calling it a mount point) I need to know what I put for the mount point. Any help?
Anyway, your mount point is "/" (without the quotes), but the device it mounts to could be anything. Usually you'll be using the first scsi (this includes SATA ) or IDE drive.
so, for instance.... for scsi
/dev/sda is the first drive.
/dev/sdb is the second drive, etc.
/dev/sda1 is the first partition on the first drive.
/dev/sda2 is the second partition, etc.
If you are using ide, replace the "s" with an "h"...
/dev/hda3 would be the third partition...
I'm just guessing they want the mount point of your root directory. Alot of *nix distros split up the partitions for security and space quota reasons -- so, you might have a /var mount point, or /home mount-point, etc. So, you'll probably wind up mounting root ("/") on /dev/hda1. *nix distros tends to give you a great deal of flexibility on how you configure your system, so, obviously, make certain your mount point matches to the directory you really want for your root file system.
If you are that far, you'll also need to install a boot loader. I can't say how Redhat handles that stuff, but I suspect they still use Lilo. I use Grub, which has a different drive syntax:
(0,0) would be the first partition on the first drive, (1,2) would be the third partition on the second drive. Grub can be a bitch if your bios ever re-orders the IDE and SCSI drives. At any rate, you'll probably want to install your boot loader on your first drive. This goes in the boot sector, so you don't give it a partition usually (/dev/hda) for example.
Hope this helps.
Jon