On 04/03/10 19:13, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'm a laid off engineer on a zero income budget, so $$$ are a prime > consideration. I bought a basic system for $1 at at swap meet. It > had no hard drive, and a burnt out power supply, and only 64M of RAM. > I've added another 128M of RAM from a junker, and transplanted a PS > from another machine, and added a 40G WD HD. > > I've added a couple of CD-ROM drives, one of which can write, and so > I've got a base system up. It boots the LiveCD (6.3) and I've used it to > build LFS 6.4, which it boots and runs on another drive temporarily. > > Now, I'm looking for partitioning info on this very minimal system. > > Here's my initial thoughts... > > prtn size mount point > ---- ---- ----------- > hda1 100M /boot > hda2 10G / (main) > hda3 10G / (build) > hda5 20G /home >
If you've only got 128M of RAM you'll need a swap partition. I use one partition for both /hom and /boot. IE, /boot is a symbolic link pointing at /home/boot > Does the build partition really need to be 10G? Would 5G be enough > to build a new BLFS with smallish desktop, like fluxbox, not a big > GNOME or KDE? If so, then /home could grow by another 10G, which > would be nice. On my netbook I use 4G for /, but I think I could get away with 3 at a pinch. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
