P. R. Seshan forced the electrons to say:
> Secondly, for multiple partitions, can you also suggest how much
> size does each partition require. and how many such partitions does
> one has to create. Since all these are variable parameters and also
It all depends on your choice. I would suggest a small (about 50 M or
so) /boot partition, a 300 - 500 MB /var partition (depends on the
amount of logs your system creates) and a /home with (let us say) 20
MB per user (really depends on the number of users you have). Nowadays
a RHL full installation takes about 1.2 GB, so keep that much in /
(you can remove unwanted packages later).
> these days the RPMS do not suggest where the package will be
Before installing a package, just check rpm -qlp <package name.rpm>
> And also kindly let me know how we can recreate the bootable disk
Again, RHL specific - mount the CD, go to /mnt/cdrom/images, and put
boot.img on one floppy and rescue.img on another. Boot from the boot
floppy, and at the first prompt (where you say install/rescue) choose
rescue. It will prompt for the second floppy. The command to create
these floppies is:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
for the first one, and the filename replaced with rescue.img for the
other.
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