I'm brand new to Linux and new to this list. Been playing around for last couple of weeks with an install of Mandrake 8.2. The hardware is an older HP Vectra. 200 MHz Pent.; 80 meg RAM; integrated video (S3 Trio); one 1.5 G, and one 1.2 G hard drive.
The 1.5 G drive is partitioned with a (about) 800 meg NT partition, a Linux / partition of almost 500 meg and a Linux swap of about 170 m. The second drive (slave on the IDE channel) is entirely the /usr partition. I've reinstalled Linux several times. Each as an experiment and learning tool. During the package install phase, the installer tells me I have about 1200 or so mb to install the packages in. That appears to be the /usr partition as it's followed the sizing of that partition each time I've varied it. So, if all installed apps go into that partition, what takes up the room in the root partition? The documentation says that about 300 mb is generally enough for the / partition. Is there no room for anything else on this partition? Dan W. Dooley WB5TKA Bedford, Texas e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address: http://www.qsl.net/wb9tka May Goddes love blest ye alle
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