-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote:
> > My apologies for stupid question, I've known nothing but Microsoft stuff >until yesterday. After much learning, I finally got debian to the point >where APT was almost configured when I ran out of disk space. Reason: > > I wanted to have three partitions on my D: drive for Linux. One was >going to be for the root only, which I alloted 65mb for. Another 1150mb >partition was for /usr, /var and everything else. Lastly was another 65mb >partition for swap. > > However, if I make the first partition the root, and then choose /usr for >the 2nd partition, it then puts /var, /home and /tmp in the little root >partition. I don't want to have seperate partitions for each of these, >because that would waste too much of my limited hd space. > > Is there a way to have the root in my small partition, and all the others >(except for the swap) in a different partition? symlinks. Make the directories in /usr then link them to the real directories... mkdir /usr/var cp -r /var /usr/var ln -s /usr/var /var mkdir /usr/home cp -r /home /usr/home ln -s /usr/home /home tmp is a special case: most things look for a global variable $TMPDIR that first looks for /tmp, then /usr/tmp, depending on available space. > Many thanks to those who have already helped me; I finally got my >internet access working with a static IP address; I could not get DCHP to >work even though the Windows machines on my LAN manage to get their IP's >assigned automatically. >However, it works and can find www.debian.org now, so it will work to >download the rest of Linux hopefully, once I can work out the partition >problem. > >Kevin Stokes >Pie in the Sky Software >www.pieskysoft.com > > > > - -- The early worm gets the bird. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOsphch9mehuYcOjMEQJ0jQCg3hv6hJc5nlwG/LO4Qz3280ZGi1UAoPYr nR3QqNA3/RC1mFErBTFP/jiv =CILk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----