Hi--
I'm about to do a fresh install of 4.0b on a 4100. I'm planning to do a
custom install and use AdvFS for the system partitions. The way I want to
organize things is to have /, /usr and /var be individual filesets within
the same file domain (using a single physical disk with a single partition).
As far as I can tell, the installation procedure insists on creating a
separate file domain for each, thus requiring me to partition the single
disk, which I want to avoid doing.
Is there anyway around this? Is there any way I can tell the installer to
skip the filesystem creation stuff and just start moving the software from
the CD to my system?
One possible way I though of would be to install the OS to a "properly"
partitioned spare disk, create the single domain and three filesets that
I originally wanted, then vdump/vrestore the OS onto the new filesets and
then boot off the new root fileset. Can anybody think of a reason why this
wouldn't work? Anything that might trip me up that I should be aware of?
Why does DEC insist that you have separate partitions in the first place?
What if I just wanted a single / partition, with /usr and /var as plain
old subdirectories thereof? Is there some kind of logic behind this or
is it just another example of Infinite Vendor Wisdom?
Thanks,
jonathan
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+++ Jonathan Rozes, Unix Systems Administrator, Tufts University
++ jrozes_at_tcs.tufts.edu, http://rozes.tcs.tufts.edu/
+ Remember, there's a difference between kneeling down and
bending over --FZ
Received on Fri Apr 11 1997 - 00:51:48 NZST