I am writing my questions in between the text, if anyone can answer them I would appreciate it.
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks. > > hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB. Why are you not using hda and hdb? what determines which one you use? I have two HD's. Right now only one is hooked up -- it is my hda, a 1.6G Western Digital, running Redhat. I wish to hook up in addition a 340 Meg Connor. I would like that to be the slave so that I can keep my WD stuff where it is. I want to install Debian on the 340 Meg drive until I convince myself if I want Debian on the 1.6G drive. I would like to boot up on either one. How do I arrange that? The second one would be hdb, would it not? . Each drive will be partitioned by using linux fdisk, and each drive has a small DOS partition on hda1 and hdb1. I do not wish to use both disks for one distribution just yet (I understand the merit of doing that, however). I want to get Debian running on my "test" 340 meg drive, without disturbing my "running system". Can I get lilo to boot from either drive? How? > > You bet. If possible, stick to hda and hdc. I saw a 10 to 1 performance > improvement in Win95 ScanDisk when I moved my second 1.2G Western Digital > to secondary master from primary slave (primary master is an identical 1.2 > WD). I don't understand this statement. What exactly is the relation between hda, hdb, and hdc? Do you have one controller that runs two HD's? What is your hardware configuration? I have a controller card, el-cheapo $19.00, that controls 2 IDE HD's, 2 Floppies, 2 Serial Ports and 1 Parallel Printer port. > But yes, NOTHING wrong with splitting across two drives. Try to > split them intelligently for best performance. Here's some of my thoughts > on partitioning: when you are reading data, you want it now. /home and > /usr should not be on the same disk (launching emacs on a file will be > reading both the executable and the file). /var probably should be on a > different disk than /usr (same as /home?) because daemons want to write to > their log file as they are starting up, etc. These are good ideas. I like this, and when I get past my "experimental" phase I will do this also. Thank you. > > Here's a df on my server: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda1 19485 10253 8226 55% / > /dev/hda2 223494 146781 65172 69% /usr > /dev/hdc3 198123 11279 176613 6% /var > /dev/hdc4 288354 542 272919 0% /tmp > /dev/hda3 560060 5788 525343 1% /nfs > /dev/hdb1 2990073 2038838 796610 72% /server > > /dev/hdc2 is a 120M swap. /nfs holds /home and /var/spool/mail, you'll > see why in a minute. > > Here's a df on my workstation: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda3 39039 7855 29168 21% / > /dev/hda4 577609 307494 240279 56% /usr > /dev/hdc3 99539 7646 86753 8% /var > /dev/hdc4 201043 37 190624 0% /tmp > templinux:/nfs 560060 5789 525342 1% /nfs > > hda1 is 200M FAT (Win95 OS). hda2 is 400M NTFS (WinNTW 4.0). hdc1 is > 800M FAT (Common 95/NT apps). hdc2 is 120M swap. > > On both machines, /home is a symlink to /nfs/home, and /var/spool/mail is > a symlink to /nfs/spool/mail, allowing easy NFS mounting of user files > with only one NFS mount (and one partition!). > > > Finally, as far as I know, / doesn't have to be a primary partition. But are > > there any advantages to designating it as primary? > > I try to make every partition a primary, if possible (keep in mind that > Linux can have four primaries, unlike DOS). I've seen a few (albeit older > and non-Debian) Linux fdisk's choke on the whole extended/logical deal. Sorry for my elementary questions. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you for your post, Pete. Best Regards, Joe Hartmann Tel: (603) 863 6073 K2AJV -issued email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1951 home-page: http://www.sugar-river.net/~joeh ------------------------------------------------------------- First Student at the: Linux Academy in the Sunshine Town of Newport, NH Thanks to RMS, Linus, and other contributors of free software! ------------- I grant this to the public domain ------------- > > --Pete > _______________________________________________________________ > Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst > Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 > Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]