[brlug-general] Home file server help

[Joe Fruchey]

Well, I never did get around to checking those partitions, but I
thought about it last night. Instead of using Knoppix, though, I went
ahead and downloaded the Feisty Desktop iso (in 22 minutes, thank you,
6Mb DSL!).

The LiveCD booted fine (which I imagined it would) so I just went
ahead and ran the installer with all the defaults. Not a hitch. It
installed fine, booted fine, everything. What's the deal?!

Anyhow, right now, I'm running the Feisty server installer *again* to
see if it works this time.

Joe

On 4/30/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the last install I ran was telling Feisty to do the partitioning
> with NO LVM. But yeah, I guess I should see what it comes up as.
> Sounds like something good to do on my lunch break. Living 7 blocks
> from work is teh nice.
>
> Joe
>
> On 4/29/07, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm thinking that a 500 Mhz compaq doesn't support ACPI anyway.  I
> > wonder what a Linux LiveCD would see your root partition as?
> >
> > Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > > I tried adding 'noacpi' and 'acpi=off', and neither worked. Thanks, though.
> > >
> > > On 4/29/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> That Fedora set up is cool.  Many moons ago people used to use a /boot
> > >> partition to get around BIOS boot disk size limitations.  It's neat to see
> > >> they remembered the trick and applied it to LVM.  The same thing can be done
> > >> by making a small root partion and mounting most of the file system,
> > >> like /usr, /var and /home, from other partitons.  Dustin has a nifty default
> > >> set up, but I gave up most of that because BIOS booting got easier.  I'll
> > >> still mount /usr and some others from a nice fast scsi drive.
> > >>
> > >> ACPI is something the kernel tries to use, regardless of BIOS settings.  An
> > >> older machine won't have it and the kernel ACPI can make trouble.  You
> > >> disable it with a boot option or two, "acpi=off" and "noacpi".  As an example
> > >> the grub menu.lst on this machine, /boot/grub/menu.lst, has:
> > >>
> > >> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686
> > >> root            (hd0,0)
> > >> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off
> > >> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
> > >>
> > >> You can edit that file to add the options from a live CD and you can usually
> > >> edit the boot options by some keystroke your distribution should tell you
> > >> about.
> > >>
> > >> I hope that helps.
> > >>
> > >> On Friday 27 April 2007 10:19 am, Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>  I tried running the default Ubuntu 7.04 server install
> > >>> last night using standard guided partitioning (no LVM) only on hda,
> > >>> and it does the same thing. I have no options in the BIOS config for
> > >>> ACPI or APM. Hell, I'm surprised they gave me boot order, piece of
> > >>> crap machine.
> > >>>
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