Systematic Upgrade from Fedora 1 -> 4

[Claude Jones]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>You will have to partition manually using Disk Druid (ok, running fdisk
>on the console would do too). Didn't you ever create a separate
>partition for /boot? It would be the same for any other specific
>directory. Anyway, what you do - and the same is possible running RAID
>and/or LVM (with LVM it is an LV and not a partition) - is that you
>start by creating a partition of a specific size. You further define in
>that step which filesystem should be used and - this is the important
>fact - at which mountpoint the partition should be mounted. Some common
>mountpoints are already predefined and you can choose one of them out of
>this list. But it is no problem to choose a very different, like
>/var/spool/mail. You can repeat this step as often you like as long you
>have free space for new partitions. One of the partitions created this
>way must have the mountpoint /.
>
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html
>
>for further reading and screenshots.
>
>Alexander
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Thanks, Alexander. Your explanation is helpful, and I appreciate the 
link as well.

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA