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Mount Points

This next screen asks you to map your disk partitions to their corresponding mount point in the files system. Each partition will need a mount point and a file system. For example, a simple configuration (root and swap partitions) would enter this at the prompts:

  For each of the found partitions, specify the mount point in the system:

   note: 
     - 'none' will skip the current partition
     - /boot should exist on ext2 or ext3 due to a bug in grub

  /dev/hda1           101 MB
     \_ mount point> /boot
     \_ file system> ext3
     \_ format>      y

  /dev/hda2           251 MB
     \_ Configuring as Swap

  /dev/hda3           9883 MB
     \_ mount point> /
     \_ file system> xfs
     \_ format>      y

NOTE: because of a bug in 'grub', the '/boot' partition (or the '/' partition if a '/boot' partition does not exist) must be either 'ext2' or 'ext3' and not 'xfs'.

If you want 'xfs' to work with 'grub', please support your local grub development team with bug reports and by documenting specific failure modes so that all grub users may benefit. Thank you ever so much.



Troy Johnson 2004-05-21