Fedora Core formalism

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Sat Mar 10 19:56:56 PST 2007


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Now my next question is how do I mount this VolGroup thing so that I can
>> access it from the outside world (from another partition)?  The
>> traditional method for mounting an ext3 filesystem does not work,
>> because there is more than just an ext3 filesystem in this VolGroup thing.
> 
> You can't unless you've got a kernel which has LVM support.
> 

Hmmm,  that's a pain.  I can recompile my SuSE kernel, or set up the 
disks to boot in the opposite order, but then I have to make GRUB be the 
chain loader.

Is there a way to install FC without this structure, in other words, 
with a / directory and a swap partition?

Thanks.

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"



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