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/dev/hda4 hibernation 577MB 619.32MB A0 IBM Thinkpad Hibernation

We use fdisk and repartition into:

Fourth preliminary partition layout:

Partition: Purpose: Intended: Actual: Type:

/dev/hda1 /boot 8MB 15.49MB 83 Linux

/dev/hda2 preliminary 512MB 541.91MB 83 Linux

/dev/hda3 hibernation 577MB 619.32MB A0 IBM Thinkpad Hibernation

/dev/hda4 extended rest 05 Extended

/dev/hda5 / 64MB 69.68MB 83 Linux

/dev/hda6 LVM rest 58765.28MB 8e Linux LVM

Note: Tomove the hibernation partition, we use the “extra functionality (experts only)” mode of fdisk and then

“ﬁx partition order” — preferably before we create anyother partition.

We create the ﬁlesystems by hand, since we don’tneed no reserved blocks for /boot and the root ﬁlesystem /.

Manual creation of the ﬁlesystems:

#> mke2fs −m 0 /dev/hda1

#> mke2fs /dev/hda2

#> mke2fs −m 0 /dev/hda5

Nowwehav e another problem. Weshould nowdeﬁne the LVM volume group and create the physical/logical

volumes for /usr,/var, /tmp and /home. Unfortunately however, the Debian installation system does not support

LVM. For this reason, we use the intended swap partition /dev/hda2 to install a preliminary Debian system with-

out swap partition. As soon as possible, we will compile our custom kernel, setup LVM and then proceed rear-

ranging things into their ﬁnal layout.

3. 2. Installation of the Preliminary System

After having partitioned the hard disk and having formatted the partitions, we install a preliminary kernel as well

as the base system and reboot, we makeuse of the good old tasksel and dselect install the following tasks and

packages,

Debian tasks and packages for the preliminary system:

Task Development C

kernel−source−2.4.18

bzip2

linbz2−1.0

kernel−package

libncurses5−dev

lvm−common

lvm10

ext2resize

3. 3. Conﬁguration of the Keyboard

We want put the <Control> in the Right Place™ where God has intended it to be, namely left to the <A> key.

The old <Control> should takeoveras<Compose>. Wedon’tneed no <CapsLock>. Toachieve this, we copyall

the relevant kernel keymaps into /etc/console and modify them accordingly.

Copying the necessary ﬁles for the new keyboard layout:

#> cd /etc/console

#> cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz .

#> cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/qwerty−layout.inc.gz .

#> cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/linux−keys−bare.inc.gz .

#> cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/linux−with−alt−and−altgr.inc.gz .