On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Ramakrishnan M wrote: > kamesh jayachandran wrote: > > > > I have some problems in installing debian in my frined's box. > > 1)He is having 2 harddisks in his box.I want to install debian linux in > > secondary disk.Is it possible to boot the os in secondary hard disk. > > yes, it is possible, I think. Not very sure... yes I am able to do that. > > 2)How to name the mount point at the time of installation? > > I have created 3 linux ext2 file system on the secondary disk but not > > able to name them to be mounted on the say /usr or whatever mount point. > > It just tries to install everything under the primary partition of the > > secondary disk which it automatically mounts as "/". > > Hoping that you have both the HDDs in the primary IDE cable, it will be called > /dev/hdb1, hdb2 etc. While installing it will ask for mount points, before > that > switch the virtual terminal and find out the names. YOu can do that using > fdisk > (fdisk /dev/hdb). You will get the names. (If it is not hdb it will show an > error and you can try hdc or hdd, which are the drives connected in the > secondary IDE cable..) Yes I am able to mount it. My another query is how to give the ip address for the interface card .Any utilities like netconf or netconfig? with regards kamesh jayachandran -- "Jamie, you know how inappropriate it is to introduce facts in a discussion about ReiserFS, please refrain from that in the future." - Jes Sorenson "Sorry, I will use [OFFTOPIC] for facts in future ;-)" - Jamie Lokier To unsubscribe, send mails to badge-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' (without quotes) in the Subject field.