Topic: Custom Partitioning

[Simon]

The first time I installed SME (without a ext2/3 or swap partition already on the drive) I was given the option to create new partitions. Every time after that the installer skipped that option and auto-creates just two partitions - / and /boot. How do I get the partion editor to show up now? I'd like to partition /home and /var/lib/mysql and set fstab accordingly (nosuid,noexec, etc).


Thanks!

Simon

[Dominik]

You can use a special boot disk to partition your harddisk with the DiskDrake tool. For my server installation I made myself such a bootdisk.
So you can set your own partitions for the server. I use it to make the / and /boot directories on the first HDD and the /home on the second HDD.

You can download it and look (compare with the original boot.img on the CD) at the "install.cfg" file.

http://www.s235.de/sme_disk/boot.img

Here you can set the language, keyboard and time zone you want to have for your server.
I tried to preconfigure it for you, because my boot disk was made for a german installation.

Sorry, but I haven't more time to explain it. Look at the bootimage and try to customize for your needs.
I hope it is someting like that what you want.

Regards,

Dominik