Partition boot disk when installing Fedora Core 4

[Steve Phillips]

Ruiyuan Jiang wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I am quite new to Redhat world. I recently downloaded Fedora Core 4 and
> tried to install it on a Compaq PC. I wiped out the Windows that
> installed on the PC so Fedora Core 4 is the only OS for the system. In
> the installation process, I chose either "automatic or manual partition
> disk with disk druid". I tried to create /var, /usr, /opt, /tmp, /home
> on their own partitions instead of a big "root" partition on a single
> disk. The practice is typical or standard on HP-UX or Solaris. The
> installation went on without warning or problem. After the installation
> is done, the box got rebooted. The box stopped booting and it complained
> about /var, /usr, /opt, /home when it read /etc/fstab file in the

How did it complain ? (hint - error messages go a long way toward 
explaining things if you decide to post them)

> booting process. As I stated above, I tried to install Fedora Core 4
> with both automatic or manual partition disk but they both failed to
> boot. My co-worker installed Redhat before and he could partition the
> disk but he can't explain why we can't partition disk on Fedora Core 4.
> So my question is if Fedora Core 4 supports disk partition instead of a
> big "root" partition on a single disk? Thanks in advance.

The answer to your question is: Yes.

-- 
Steve.