Re: [newbie] 7.2 and several problems

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman 

On Friday 24 November 2000 01:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:

 boot box also has the same problems as above as well as telling me
 that I have room for only 39% of the files I chose to install. That
 was on a 4gig hd with 2 gig reserved for /home. Should I have made
 /usr the larger partition? 

   Please, no html.  Also, you have the best chance of getting good 
answers to your questions if you limit each post to one question. Your 
'several problems' also appear to to be on different systems, so I'll 
just try to suggest a solution for partitions.  

   A fairly normal install of 7.2 with all it's included software is 
going to approach 3 gigs or more.  This is only going to be viable in 4 
gigs if you make ~120mb '/swap', and put everything else in '/'   There 
are no valid reasons not to put all of Linux on one partition (/), 
unless it's going to be used as a mission critical, multi user, 
networked server.  . and in that case, 4 gigs isn't close to being 
enough.
-- 
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and several problems

2000-11-23 Thread Dennis Myers 

Thanks, that helped a whole lot. I didn't realize how big 7.2 really was.
I got 80% of  expert/workstation on about 2.4 gigs. That should be ok until
I finally delete windows off of the 10gig hd and go linux only.  Thanks
again, Dennis M.

bascule wrote:

 dennis, /usr needs to be quite big, try a 1gig /, a 2gig /usr and 1gig
 /home,
 have you set dns correctly for netscape to work, do this in
 drakconfnetworking
 maybe it was just a typo in your post but a modem would be on ttyS0 not
 ttys0, ttyS0 is com1 in dos terms

 bascule

 Dennis Myers wrote:
 
  I have found the gui for 7.2 but as stated before I have no icons and
  several functions don't. Like Networking in DrakConf, and my modem
  will dial in and connect to my ISP but netscape doesn't connect.  On
  the dual boot machine I have an external modem set on ttys0 and 7.2
  can't find it.  the dual boot box also has the same problems as above
  as well as telling me that I have room for only 39% of the files I
  chose to install. That was on a 4gig hd with 2 gig reserved for /home.
  Should I have made /usr the larger partition? Lots of questions, I
  know, but if anyone can help on one at a time or all I would
  appreciate it. Just a note, I am using Netscape 6 for this e-mail and
  it is definitly slower than 4.75, also I have had a look at
  enlightenment and it is  COOOL!  TIA for any help out there,
 
  --
  Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842

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Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842