Hi Ken, Lot of thanks for your advice and time.
The advice to be sought is for LTSP server. I will come back after test. Thanks Stephen At 07:36 PM 7/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Stephen, > >Here is what I am recommending in the How-To that I am currently writing. It >assumes that you already have some knowledge of Linux: > >---------begin quote----------- >Partition the drive. The RedHat installer does a VERY poor job of >auto-partitioning drives; however, you will still need to run it to gather >certain information. > >Tell it you want it to automatically partition the drive(s), but you want to >confirm the choices it makes. > >Note the amount of space that is allocated to /boot (usually 47 MB) and to >swap. > >Now delete the swap partition and the / partition. Leave /boot (usually the >first partition) as is. > >Create a new / partition, but only assign a few gigabytes to it. If you're >installing both Gnome and KDE, your stock install will come in at about 2 ½ >GB. Plus you'll want to add apps such as OpenOffce, so you'll probably want >at least 4 GB here. More is better, but remember you need to leave space for >user files and swap. > >Create a partition that uses almost all of the remaining free space, with >just >enough left for the swap partition. > >Allocate the remaining hard drive space for swap. > >Choose ext3 for all of the partitions (except swap, of course), and it's a >good idea to check the box that says, "Check for bad blocks during format." >--------------end quote------- > >Ken Barber > >On Tuesday 23 July 2002 04:46 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Sandro, > > > > Yes. You are correct. Sorry for not having indicated clear in my posting. > > > > The PC shall be used for LTSP server serving about 15-20 diskless > > workstation. RH7.3 shall be its OS. > > > > Thanks > > > > Stephen > > > > At 11:30 PM 7/23/2002 +0200, you wrote: > > >Il giorno Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Stephen Liu così ha scritto: > > >|From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >|Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:29:46 +0800 > > >|Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive > > >| > > >|Hi All Guys, > > >| > > >|Could you please shed me some light about the partition scheme on a 40G > > >|hard drive > > >|RAM 1G > > >|Workstation 15-25 > > >| > > >|p1: / ??? mb / ??? % > > >|p2: swap ??? mb / ??? % > > >|p3: /usr ??? mb / ??? % > > >|p4: /home ??? mb / ??? % ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net