On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new
> CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems
> fine. I made partitions like:
> 1. /swap 80MB
I like to put the swap at the end of the drive. It makes sure the /boot
partition in inside 1023
> 2. /boot 20MB
> 3. / 800MB
> 4. /usr 200MB
You'll find that /usr is going to have more in it than / you may want to change
this around. A good command to run to get disk usage is du. cd into /usr and
run du -h and it will give you the size of all files below /usr
> 5. /home 500MB
> or roughly that amount. It's doing the install right now so I can't
> check. I did find the install notes from my LUG meeting last month. The
> minimum they gave said to have /, /boot, /swap, /home, and /usr .
> The sweet sounds of the CD spinning are filling my ears now. Excuse me
> while I bask in the glow of the monitor and read more e-mail.
> Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Leas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> >
> >Okay, here is my suggestion:
> >
> >1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm
> >assuming it is the first one)
> >2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions.
> >3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk.
> >4. Setup your partitons something like so:
> > /boot 20MB
> > /
> > /swap
> > /home (for program files)
> >
> >You could put the boot , swap , and /home partitions on the first drive
> and
> >the /home on the second or whatever floats your boat.
> >
> >Hope this helps :)
> >
> >
> >>I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop
> >>windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed
> Linux
> >>to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the
> >>original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard
> >>drive.
> >>
> >>When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and
> >>/swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, & /whatever else
> on
> >>dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb?
> >>I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive?
> >>And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB,
> >>but not sure on the rest.
> >>
> >>Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or
> two
> >>other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and
> >>general experimentation.
> >>Brian
> >>
> >>"My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true.
> >>
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Brett Jones
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