Newbie how do I designate a disk to install software from the DVD

Bob Macpherson

Where are the parbreastions mounted? Software from RPMs will be installed tousr. Stuff you compile from source will usually be installed to usr-local oropt---away from the RPMs inusr. You don't install programs to a parbreastion per se. They get installed where they belong but those locations can be on any parbreastion.

An example from one of my systems (from the 'mount' command):

dev-sda1 on type ext3 (rw)dev-sda5 onusr type jfs (rw)dev-sdb7 onusr-local type jfs (rw)dev-sdb5 onvar type ext2 (rw,noatime)dev-sdb2 onusr-src type jfs (rw)dev-sda7 onusr-share type jfs (rw)dev-sdb1 onopt type jfs (rw)

So any package that gets installed tousr goes todev-sda5 while stuff that gets installed inopt ends up ondev-sdb1 and self-compiled stuff goes tousr-local atdev-sdb7.

Whether or not software belongs inusr orusr-local depends entirely on whether it's a distribution supplied package (-usr) or something I compiled myself (-usr-local). For more information, see the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS for short).

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