On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Lute Mullenix wrote: > Ok, here's my situation. I was planning on doing the switch to Debian in the > near future, but it came sooner than expected when the HD in my Brand X > distro machine bellied up on me. So I went down and picked up a new 30 gig > unit and it now sits in my Pentium machine eagerly awaiting a new OS. I am > going to install Debian on it, that's a given, but with all that space sort > of figured I would break it up into 3, 10 gig partitions, and try the > multi-boot thing. Have been using single boot setups up to this point. > > Well, got cfdisk up on the screen and started out by putting 3 10 gig > primary partitions on there. But quickly realized I don't have a clue as to > what I'm doing. Up to this point I have always used the following scheme. > > /boot > /swap > / > > But the largest drive has been a 1.7 gig, so it made sense. > > I did a test install on an old 486, which I'm using for this message, using > the above set up. And during the install, I selected newbe docs, but can't > find anything on here in the line of HOW-TOs or that sort of stuff. > > Could someone get me started on this, or at least direct me to the proper > docs? Also, if I use more than one Linux install, can I get by with just one > /swap partition, or would I need one for each install? > > What I have in mind is a stable, the Potato disks I have now, a testing, > Woody I believe it is at this point, and then FreeBSD, just because I have > it laying around here. I'll leave the unstable to those more stout of heart > than myself. > > Would the following work? > > /boot (5 meg primary) > / (10240 meg logical) > /swap (64 meg primary) > > Just leaving the rest open until I get ready to install the other OSs. > > Anyone?
What you have should work fine. With as much disk space as you have I would bump your swap space up a bit if you have 64 megs of ram. I like to partition a little more than that but unless this is a mission critical server there really isn't much reason to do so. You will come up with a partitioning scheme that you are comfortable as you go along. You can share /swap between other versions of debian and freebsd. You might want to check out - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.html kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke