Mark Pimentel wrote:
> Is there some way that the install scripts could be modified to
> install e-smith on a different partitioning scheme?
>
> I have multiple drives in my computer, and would like to make
> boot drive the smaller drive (2GB) and the /home (space hog) on
> a 9GB drive
It's possible to change the auto-partitioning scheme only if you boot from floppy disk. Create the floppy disk as per the installation instructions, and edit the file ks.cfg on the boot floppy. But I don't know exactly how to specify the second disk, you'll need to find Kickstart documentation and check the details.
The other way to do it, and how I'd do it, is to do a normal install on the 2GB disk, then log in as root, partition the second drive, make a filesystem on the new partition, then mount that partition as /home, and copy the contents of the original /home partition onto the new partition, then reboot. Something like (assuming your second drive is the master on the second controller):
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdc1
mv /home /home.orig
mkdir /home
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home
cp -arv /home.orig/. /home
echo "/dev/hdc1 /home ext2 defaults 1 2" >> /etc/fstab
/sbin/telinit 6
Charlie