I received several e-mail replies on the subject and here is the option I
have chosen to go with:
NOTE: I will be using Red Hat instead of Mandrake since the machine is a 486
(Thanks to Steve Flynn for this)
All I can offer is my current set-up which has /everything/ installed from
Mandrake 6.5 all source code, libraries, compilers, optionals, etc.
/ is 2 gb. Got about 600 meg free. Plenty
/home is 1 gb. Got about 900 meg free. More than plenty.
swap partition is 133 meg. Machine has 256 meg in it - average load is
constantly around 2 so it's pretty busy all the time. Never seen it use
more than about 8 meg or swap.
If this is a test install, and you're not going to be doing anything really
fancy with it, I'd make
1.5 gig for /
128 meg for swap
500 meg for /home
It's not the easiest of configurations to recover in the event of a
disaster, but it's easy to install and easy to maintain. It also leaves
plenty of room for growth. It all really depends on what you are planning
to do with Linux!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
ORIGINAL POST:
> From: FredB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:38:12 -0500
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [newbie] Looking for a good start...
>
> I'm getting ready to do an install of Mandrake onto a test machine (dinky
> 486 I have laying around) to work with until I have a proper machine built.
> the machine will have 2 SCSI drives, one 2g and the other 1g. I am trying to
> determine what the best way is to partition the drives and mount my
> directories so that I can use both drive with some efficiency and have room
> left over for installing a kernel source now and then as need arises.
>
> I plan on using the 2g as the primary drive at ID0 and the 1g at ID1 for
> starters.
>
> Any suggestions from there will be greatly appretiated.
>
> Fred Buecker
>
