[Gllug] Help on disk partitioning for Red Hat 8

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Tue Jul 15 13:04:43 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 15 July 2003 11:13, Robert Boulter wrote:
> Hi,
>   When I manually partition with disk druid, quite early on before any
> actual install, I edit my d: drive, or /dev/hda5 as red hat calls it, to
> have a mount point of / a file system of ext3.  It then returns an error
> saying 'Warning: Boot partition / may not meet booting constraints for your
> architecture. Creation of a boot disk is highly encouraged' and then offers
> me the option of modifying the partition again.

Right. Ignore the warning, don't go back and repartition and make sure that 
you create a boot floppy later on in the install process when it asks you (I 
assume that it will ask you later, they usually do)

SteveH

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