Well, I have to revise the amounts in the partitions. Brett, you were
right, I didn't have enough room in the /usr partition. I forgot that the
bin files went in there. Here is what it looks like now.
1. /boot 20 MB
2. / 791 MB
3. /swap 80 MB
4. /home 439 MB
The swap and home part. are on the 540MB and the others on the 810MB. In
Disk Druid I allowed it to put the partitions on either drive except the
/boot and allowed the root part. to be growable. This helps fill the
space entirely.
Brian
>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.
>> >>
>--
>Brett Jones
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
