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Re: total newbie questions
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Moritz Schulte |
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Re: total newbie questions |
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Sat, 02 Mar 2002 16:04:57 +0100 |
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Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com> writes:
> IIRC Linux and Hurd use fdisk partitions to hold indivdual
> filesystems rather than the BSD approach of using only one fdisk
> partion to hold everything and sub-partitioning that in the BSD way.
> If this is wrong hit me with a clue. It just seems so gross and
> stupid to only have four partitions per disk that I'm not sure if it
> is true.
Well, you can have 4 primary partitions, but much more logical
partitions, which live inside an extended partition.
> After that it's install Debian and follow the instructions on
> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
You better try this installation guide:
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html
moritz
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