Re: TP700C/3550 needs a boot in the ass.........

Hi CT!

Let me ask a separate question here:  If I have a swap partition and a
linux partition on the ESDI drive, and a linux partition on the SCSI
drive and I begin the automatic installation, will the installation
continue to copy files to the SCSI drive when the ESDI drive is full?

No, it won't. It depends on how the partitions are mounted. I suppose you don't know the typical GNU/Linux filesystem hierarchy very well yet, so I use the Windows hierarchy *g*

Imagine you have two Windows partitions. Setup installs Windows 95 onto C: by default. If it is full, you get an error. But on Unix systems, you don't have drive letters. You have a root partition (nothing to do with the root user). The path is /. It would be like C:\ on the Windows install. All other drives and NFS expors are mounted into directories - I'm sure you have seen that as you used NFS already ;o) And the same with the second hard disk: You will have to mount it somewhere. Back to the Windows example. On Unix, you could simply mount the second partition in "C:\Program Files", and Setup would install Paint, Wordpad, and later the Office apps into this directory. You'd have the contents of "C:\Program Files" on your second hard disk. If you undock, your system would be still operable, but you left the big stuff home.

Ok, now the practical part. The Slack installer probably now puts everything on the first partition. As long as it fits, it will be no problem. On a typical GNU/Linux system, there is often a directory called /opt. If it exists, it contains opt-ional stuff, like KDE, OpenOffice, and other large apps. Large and optional stuff. Good candidates for the second HDD, right?. And then there's a directory of similar function: /usr/local. If it exists, it contains software that is not part of the base installation. So mostly large and optional stuff, too. Look which directories you have, what the contain, and whose contents you don't need if you undock the TP.

Now mount the partition of the dock's HDD in /mount. That's most probably done with "mount /dev/sda1 /mount" (without "). Then use the command "mv /opt/* /mount" to move all the stuff in /opt to /mount. Replace /opt with /usr/local, depending of the descision you have made above. Ok, when it's finished, "umount /mount". As the directory /opt is a simple empty directory now, you can use it as mount point. Let's do it: "mount /dev/sda1 /opt". That's all. Sounds complicated, but after you got the basics, it's very simple ;o)

There is still another thing. You know what happens, if you switch off a Windows computer without shutting down - Scandisk is run. Of course the same happens if you undock the TP without unmounting the dock's HDD. The nice thing is, this HDD will contain only programs. As user you can't write to /opt. So you can mount it read-only, and it will never get damaged, nor will it be checked if you forgot to unmount it before undocking. Mounting read-only is done like this: "mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /opt".

I know that is a long and complicated question, but it is the only way
I know to ask it.

Uh, the answer is longer *g* I hope you can understand it - it's much text but not much to do. And you sureley already know many things of it from your adventures with NFS ;o)

Saskia
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