[BlueOnyx:05040] Re: Installing BO/BX Tarball on Xen

Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com
Wed Jul 14 15:47:45 -05 2010


Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
>> I'm working through the tarball instructions, but it says I need /home to
>> be  a separate partition.  Obviously there is no entry for it in
>> /etc/fstab.
>>
>> Is there any way I can create this?
> 
> You can edit the installer to remove the check for the separate /home 
> directory. But then your / must have quota enabled. 
> 
> The drawback of a missing /home will be that active monitor's disk usage 
> display will still show two separate partitions on the system, although you 
> really have just one.

Here is an unsolicited 2 cents: you may find that installing BX just to 
do some secondary nameservice is more overhead than you need.  Have you 
considered just installing Bind on a bare-bones CentOS (or other distro) 
image?

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