Changeset d909eb3 for chapter02

Timestamp:

12/16/2004 09:25:35 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@…>

Children:

c30ef42

Parents:

2b11d898

Message:

Merged stuff from RAQ2 in chapter02.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multi-arch/BOOK@4401 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter02

Files:

• creatingfilesystem.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• creatingpartition.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml

@@ -33 +33 @@
 partition.</para>
 
+<para arch="raq2">If you used the partition scheme that was recommended, here are the
+commands you can use to format the necessary drives:</para>
+
+<screen arch="raq2"><userinput>mke2fs -r 0 /dev/hda1
+mke2fs /dev/hda2
+mkswap /dev/hda3</userinput></screen>
+
 </sect1>
 

chapter02/creatingpartition.xml

@@ -54 +54 @@
 file.</para>
 
+<para arch="raq2">On a Cobalt RaQ2/Cube2 we use the existing firmware for a boot loader,
+it requires an ext2 revision 0 partition to boot from. So here is the
+recommended partition for a Cobalt RaQ2/Cube2 system:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist arch="raq2">
+<listitem><para>The first partition should be 50-100 MB.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>The second partition should be all the remaining space minus the
+amount of RAM in the system.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>The third partition is going to be your swap partition, which will
+be the same amount as the RAM installed in the system.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
 </sect1>