Fedora Core formalism

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Sure, don't let it auto-partition.
> 

Yes, I went back and used fdisk and now it's fine.  I had an earlier 
problem that somehow motivated me to let the installer set up the 
partition how it wanted to.  And I see from the install options that I 
can let it set GRUB up as a chain loader if I want to take that approach.
Then I also need the evil OS installed, so mostly this is just practice.

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Tony Alfrey
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