Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate > partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to > maintain a clean machine. ;-) The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine

Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: > I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local > direc > tory. I am new to Debian (not to LInux), have a 1.3 installed and my > /usr/local > is completly empty. I believe that dpkg installs everything in /usr/lib. Is > ther

Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-27 Thread Eddie Katz
>The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine >background reading. >After reading it, I decided to put /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib on the >same partition, but different from the /usr partition. I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local