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| author | Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-12-19 19:08:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-12-19 19:08:13 +0000 |
| commit | 1422130085ebfa2674217107518bd12a8895bd00 (patch) | |
| tree | 9929b41c17649ed8f44d2958d212f19adda6d420 /chapter02/creatingpartition.xml | |
| parent | 87899e5354cf50414a44c5fb36317e4f6a0fe99b (diff) | |
Dropped/updated the text in unstable - Chapter01, 02 and 09.
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diff --git a/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml b/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml index 82b4184e4..dfb1ea387 100644 --- a/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml +++ b/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ <title>Creating a new partition</title> <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?> +<para>See testing</para> + +<!-- <para>In order to build our new Linux system, we will need some space: an empty disk partition. If you don't have a free partition, and no room on any of your hard disks to make one, then you could build LFS on the @@ -22,7 +25,7 @@ will probably want to install additional software, and will need more space than this, probably around 2 or 3 GB.</para> <para>As we almost never have enough RAM in our box, it is a good idea to -use a small disk partition as swap space -- this space is used by the kernel +use a small disk partition as swap space - this space is used by the kernel to store seldom-used data to make room in memory for more urgent stuff. The swap partition for your LFS system can be the same one as for your host system, so you won't have to create another if your host system already uses @@ -30,15 +33,16 @@ a swap partition.</para> <para>Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>cfdisk</command> or <command>fdisk</command> with an argument naming the hard disk upon -which the new partition must be created -- for example +which the new partition must be created - for example <filename>/dev/hda</filename> for the primary IDE disk. Create a Linux native partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to the man pages of <command>cfdisk</command> or <command>fdisk</command> if you don't yet know how to use the programs.</para> -<para>Remember the designation of your new partition -- something like +<para>Remember the designation of your new partition - something like <filename>hda5</filename>. This book will refer to it as the LFS partition. If you (now) also have a swap partition, remember its designation too. These names will later be needed for the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para> +--> </sect1> |