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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,00:30 QUOTE
I have an old laptop (Compaq 600 MHz, 64 MB ram, 6.0 GB hard drive). I preformed a hard drive install, on a 400 MB partition (hda1). I would now like to mount a larger (4.6 GB) partition on hda3 as the home partition. I have already copied all the /home files into a directory called /home on hda3. I would like DSL to mount this partition as home automatically on bootup. Is this possible?

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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,04:37 QUOTE
Don't copy files first, start with an empty but formatted partition.
Then use boot option home=hda3

This will then setup /home on partition hda3, from that point on always use the boot option home=hda3
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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,13:56 QUOTE
Where do I enter the boot option?

When I boot up, I come up to the grub menu. I tried entering 'e' to edit the entry, and adding 'home=hda3' at the end of the line, but to no avail.

Edit: I reformatted hda3 as ext2 and tried it, still isn't mounting it. I can see it in the mount manager as unmounted.
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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,19:56 QUOTE
Using that bootcode is probably only for frugal installations.  If you did a traditional debian-style hd-install, you can edit /etc/fstab instead.
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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,20:09 QUOTE
Yes, I did have a 'traditional' hard drive install. However, after getting frustrated I decided to try out DSL-N because I wanted abiword anway. I did a frugal install, used the live cd to mount hda1, and edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst and added home=hda3 so now it comes up as default every time.

So it works now. If I ever try the 'traditional' hard drive install I'll make sure to edit the fstab.

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