On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Lance Dow wrote:
>appeals to me is having separate partitions for /, /boot, /home, etc. While
/boot can be between 10 and 50 megs, depending on your hunger to play with
different kernels. I have a 15 meg partition for it, with 5 kernels on it
and 11 megs free.
/ with me is 1.5 Gb, don't know if that is a lot or not.
/home is 4 GB, and I have a separate 8Gb /usr partition also.
>The second question is, having created all these partitions, how does the
>install program know which is which, so that what needs to go into /home
>(for example) actually goes to the right partition?
Don't worry, it knows :)
>As a Linux newbie I'm likely to want to install everything that comes with
>the distro, and probably install and try lots of other stuff as the months
>go by. I'd like to create an environment that doesn't make this any more
>difficult than it needs to be.
If you want to install everything, you will at least need 13Gb, if you
just install the first 2 CD's!
Paul
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