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The autoinstall option in the standard installation CD assigns 6GB to the / partition if a hard drive is >14GB, 1GB in swap and the rest as /home.

Hm maybe 6GB is a bit tight. Perhaps a third tier could be introduced, say 15 GB for HD over 50 GB (nowadays by far the most common situation?)

Yes, we should probably do that.

hi again, just to things more clear , i have two separate hard drive ATA, in everone there is about 250 gigabyte , the main one was sda , then i bought another one , i add it , and now it's called sdb . the problem i had is to install salix on the second one = sdb , but no joy

i was like in a war with lilo and mbr , reinstalling salix for nearly 10 times

, for a noob like me people will say it's okay by the time you'll learn

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anyway back to the problem , so installing on the second drive doesn't work , i get back to sda drive , means the first one

things was okay , and i get what i was looking for the root partion now is about 40 gigabyte

, maybe some will say why all this for root partition , you'll not need all that ,

, well just i want that size

here is some info about the new installation

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zazlox[~]$ su
Password: 
root[zazlox]# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        37G  2.6G   33G   8% /
/dev/sda3       188G  220M  178G   1% /home
tmpfs           1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc        1.9G  1.9G   42M  98% /media/disk

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root[zazlox]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/sda1        /                ext4        noatime,defaults 1   1
/dev/sda3        /home            ext4        defaults         1   2
#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,users,rw,umask=00 0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0

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root[zazlox]# cat /etc/lilo.conf 
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.
# Boot BMP Image.
# Bitmap in BMP format: 640x480x8
  bitmap = /boot/salix.bmp
# Menu colors (foreground, background, shadow, highlighted
# foreground, highlighted background, highlighted shadow):
  bmp-colors = 255,20,255,20,255,20
# Location of the option table: location x, location y, number of
# columns, lines per column (max 15), "spill" (this is how many
# entries must be in the first column before the next begins to
# be used.  We don't specify it here, as there's just one column.
  bmp-table = 60,6,1,16
# Timer location x, timer location y, foreground color,
# background color, shadow color.
  bmp-timer = 65,29,0,255
# Standard menu.
# Or, you can comment out the bitmap menu above and
# use a boot message with the standard menu:
#message = /boot/boot_message.txt

# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append="quiet  vt.default_utf8=1"
prompt
#timeout = 300
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga = 791
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0     # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/sda1
  label = linux
  read-only  # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends

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root[zazlox]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002bff8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    78124094    39062016   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        78124095    89835479     5855692+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3        89835480   488397167   199280844   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006a159

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          63    78124094    39062016   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2        78124095   476568224   199222065   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3       476568225   488397167     5914471+  82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/sdc: 2020 MB, 2020904448 bytes
63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders, total 3947079 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
root[zazlox]#

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thanks everybody for your help and support , it was really kind of you . wish you a good & a happy life

Installing on an sdb certainly works. Autoinstall will not, but otherwise it works. You'll still have to put lilo in sda, where the bios looks to boot your pc ofcourse.

thanks gapan, could you post an example of lilo;conf file , and how nearly will look?

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lba32
append="quiet splash vt.default_utf8=1" 
boot = /dev/sda
compact
bmp-retain
bitmap = /boot/salix.bmp
bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
bmp-table = 60,6,1,16
bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255

prompt
timeout = 40
change-rules
reset

vga=791


# Salix
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb1
label = Linux
read-only

The boot and root lines are the important ones.

thanks a lot, gapan . i'll try that later .

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