On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:40:25PM -0400, Stephan Andre' wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 11:50:40 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Here's what I'm thinking: > > > > wd0 (1.1 GB drive): > > a 100 MB / > > b 128 MB swap > > c 1.1 GB > > d 256 MB /tmp > > e ~640 MB /var > > > > wd1 (8.1 GB drive): > > a 100 MB spare / > > b 128 MB swap > > c 8.1 GB > > d 1.0 GB /home > > e ~6.9 GB /usr > > > > Do you think that this will give me all the room I need to install and > > keep patched: > > > > full install > > icewm or Xfce > > Konqueror > > Firefox > > a pdf reader or two (Evince, Kpdf, Xpdf) > > mplayer > > mc > > mutt > > vim > > > > Yes, I know that compiles will take forever and a day, but hopefully I > > won't be recompiling much; I need the space in case its required. > > > > Are these partitions a good size in the right order or are they any > > suggestions for improvement? > > > Running graphical stuff on a 32M 486 is going to test your patience. > If you can survive this without defenistrating your system, you are > an amazing person.
I don't necessarily want to run it, just install it, read the man pages, etc. I know already that this box will run X, links+, xpdf, and can ssh to my Athlon64 box to run Konqeror. > Given that you are testing things, in this case I think I'd just create > a swap of 512M or so, and just create an 'a' partition thats the rest > of the disk. The downside here is that if you run the potential risk > of losing everything if 'a' goes, but I'd be more worried about the > lack of disk overall. As an example, you can't hold all the packages > you could compile, etc. > > But if you really want to partition, make the faster drive wd0 and > make one swap partition. Don't create a spare--you don't have > spare space--use it for /home or /usr. Don't forget that your 1G > drive is elderly, so keeping the least important stuff there is a > good idea. Since both drives are WD Cavier 3600's I'd guess that they're the same speed. So how would this look: wd0 a 1 GB / c 1 GB wd1 a 7.6 GB /usr b 512 MB swap c 8.1 GB Doug. > > I don't know where you are, but getting ANY Pentium would be a > huge win. I just found some 233MHz Dells with 128/256M ram and > 10G disks, which went for $33 each. Given what you have at the > moment, a 200-500MHz class machine would be ever so much > faster. Ask around and you might be able to get several for free. > The experience of a 486 with graphical stuff is likely to be stunning. I'm in Kingston Ontario. There aren't any local computer shops with used computers. They break, people take them to the recycling center and buy a new one. Doug.
