R: Partitioning (ex: Installing Fedora on RH9(newbie))

[Ninux]

Thanks, Andy, even for the "insult" :>

I didn't take that as an insult, indeed: I'm a beginner, and I have to know
what is going to happen.

To tell the truth, I could reinstall every thing from scratch, the only
annoying thing to reinstall is Alcaltel Speedtouch.

But I want to learn, so I want to try to repartition this way.

The disk which I'm working on is just a spare disk... I'm still using Win2k
on other disks.

Thanks again,
Nino

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-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: redhat-install-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin at redhat.com]Per conto di Andrew Kelly
Inviato: giovedì 4 marzo 2004 13.28
A: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Oggetto: Re: R: R: R: R: Partitioning (ex: Installing Fedora on
RH9(newbie))


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 13:06, Ninux wrote:
> Sorry, Andy, I'm a beginner!
>
> what does "You have to boot to single user (or init 1)" mean?

It mean you have to boot the machine into single user mode and log in as
root.

You can do this by passing parameters to the boot loader, for instance,
in the case of LILO, when the prompt is issued (boot:) hit the tab
button to interrupt the boot process and see a list of possible images
to boot. Your machine will very likely only have 1 and it will probably
be called linux. presuming this is the case, you would type linux after
the boot prompt, followed by a space, followed by either the word
single, or the number 1. It would look like this:
boot: Linux single
or
boot: Linux 1

There are more than just these 2 examples, but these are sufficient.

This will then boot you to root shell and you will be asked for the root
password. You are now in single user mode (sometimes also called
maintenance mode).

Single user mode is also runlevel 1 (hence the 1 parameter to the
bootloader). You can also reach this runlevel from a "fully booted"
machine. Just boot your box as you normally do and login as root. Then
issue the command init 1 (or telinit 1, check man pages). This will then
change your runlevel from (generally) either 3 or 5, to runlevel 1.

This is the level at which you would run parted.


Now, that having been said...
please don't take this as an insult because that's certainly not how
it's meant, but, if you are not familiar enough with a *nix box to know
what single user mode is, you really have no business manipulation
partitions on active root filesystems.
You can certainly learn a lot playing around at that level, but you
should only be doing so on a system that could drop dead without you
being bothered by it.
A couple of unattended keystrokes and you've lost everything, so don't
go at it lightly.

Andy


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