[newbie] how do I do an absolute minimal install on mini-itx system?
Hi all, I am trying to find out some basics for getting linux installed on a mini-itx motherboard 1.2Ghz C3 Processor using a compact flash memory card as a bootable silent harddrive. Card size would be either 512mb or 1gb but the smaller I can get away with would obviously save some expense. The machine only needs to run a small program in a console, have ssh running to allow access via the ethernet port and read/write data across the to the LAN. Are there any good readme's or howto's on absolute minimal installs or can anyone pass on their own wisdom from personal experiences? Many thanks if you can help magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do a home partition?
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 7:17 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Excelent advice, Anne, thanks. I am now moving to another drive, because I am a bit tight here with only 6 Gig for the entire OS. How much do you have for Mandrake? I am thinking in something like 40 Gig will be more than enough. What do you think? Plenty, though naturally it depends on your requirements. I have 2 x 20 Gig, both elderly, and about half the space is given up to fat32 for data storage and sharing with the lan, which is mostly windows. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I do a home partition?
I mean, I know how to partition my HD. What I want to know is how to have a home partition, how to make Mandrake install to recognize I am selecting a particular partition as home partition. Also, how large should it be? I suppose that will be my /home/user partition, will it not? I have Mandrake installed in two machines. In one I gave it 10 Gig space, and in the other 6 Gig, only one partition in each aside from the swap partitions. and lastly, is it advisable to have any other partitions? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do a home partition?
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:41 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: I mean, I know how to partition my HD. What I want to know is how to have a home partition, how to make Mandrake install to recognize I am selecting a particular partition as home partition. Also, how large should it be? I suppose that will be my /home/user partition, will it not? I have Mandrake installed in two machines. In one I gave it 10 Gig space, and in the other 6 Gig, only one partition in each aside from the swap partitions. and lastly, is it advisable to have any other partitions? Create an extra partition to use for /home. How big depends in part on how many users there are on your system. In our small home lan there is a certain amount of home space used for backing up important data. My /home is 6.6 GB, of which 5.1 GB is in use. It will show up in your directory tree as /home, with subdirectories for every user you create. To set it up, during install, elect to do a manual (maybe expert?) partitioning - I can't remember the exact wording. You will then get the opportunity to say which partition is to be your /home directory, which is /, and any others you have decided to set up manually (I don't bother with any more, some people do). The advantage to having a /boot separate partition is that if you install a second version of Mandrake (say when 9.2 comes out) you will have less editing to do to make the multiboot work - but it's up to you, it's not difficult. The only other think that I can think of is deciding which format to use. Do choose a journaling file system. There are many arguments as to which is the best type, but for simplicity for a newbie I would recommend ext3. It's better at recovery if anything goes wrong than the basic ext2, withouth complications that can happen on the very rare occasions that Reiser etc go wrong. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do a home partition?
Mandrake can 't remember your home partition itself if you install new on your system .. i think you need to remember or use command df to view your partition on you machine ... and need to remember it too . When you install new , in the section to define partition your can changeble those partition ... sir .. and second Question about How many your storgeable it can ? .. it depend on the type of your system files .. if you use ext2 it can be up to ... if you use ext3 it can be up to ... File System Stats Ext2FS Ext3FS ReiserFS JFS Maximum File System Size 4TB (Terabytes) 4TB 16TB 32PB (Petabytes) Block Size 1KB to 4KB 1KB to 4KB 4KB (up to 64KB) 512 Bytes to 4KB Maximum File Size 2GB 2GB 4GB 512TB to 4PB Stability Excellent Good Good Medium Tools to recover erased files Yes (complex) Yes (complex) No No Reboot time after crash Long to very long Fast Very fast Very fast Data recovery efficiency in case of a crash Generally speaking, good, but high risk of partial or total data loss N/A Very good. Complete data loss is very rare Very good and lastet ... for your swap partition ... almost many people use linux define that should be use 2 - 3 x of your Ram(memory ) example :: if you have 128 MB RAM , you should define 256 MB for swap . sir ... Hope u , correct your problem sir ... pratchaya - Original Message - From: Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:41 AM Subject: [newbie] How do I do a home partition? I mean, I know how to partition my HD. What I want to know is how to have a home partition, how to make Mandrake install to recognize I am selecting a particular partition as home partition. Also, how large should it be? I suppose that will be my /home/user partition, will it not? I have Mandrake installed in two machines. In one I gave it 10 Gig space, and in the other 6 Gig, only one partition in each aside from the swap partitions. and lastly, is it advisable to have any other partitions? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do a home partition?
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 03:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:41 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: I mean, I know how to partition my HD. What I want to know is how to have a home partition, how to make Mandrake install to recognize I am selecting a particular partition as home partition. Also, how large should it be? I suppose that will be my /home/user partition, will it not? I have Mandrake installed in two machines. In one I gave it 10 Gig space, and in the other 6 Gig, only one partition in each aside from the swap partitions. and lastly, is it advisable to have any other partitions? Create an extra partition to use for /home. How big depends in part on how many users there are on your system. In our small home lan there is a certain amount of home space used for backing up important data. My /home is 6.6 GB, of which 5.1 GB is in use. It will show up in your directory tree as /home, with subdirectories for every user you create. To set it up, during install, elect to do a manual (maybe expert?) partitioning - I can't remember the exact wording. You will then get the opportunity to say which partition is to be your /home directory, which is /, and any others you have decided to set up manually (I don't bother with any more, some people do). The advantage to having a /boot separate partition is that if you install a second version of Mandrake (say when 9.2 comes out) you will have less editing to do to make the multiboot work - but it's up to you, it's not difficult. The only other think that I can think of is deciding which format to use. Do choose a journaling file system. There are many arguments as to which is the best type, but for simplicity for a newbie I would recommend ext3. It's better at recovery if anything goes wrong than the basic ext2, withouth complications that can happen on the very rare occasions that Reiser etc go wrong. Excelent advice, Anne, thanks. I am now moving to another drive, because I am a bit tight here with only 6 Gig for the entire OS. How much do you have for Mandrake? I am thinking in something like 40 Gig will be more than enough. What do you think? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do a home partition?
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 03:59 am, Pratchaya Chatuphian wrote: Mandrake can 't remember your home partition itself if you install new on your system .. i think you need to remember or use command df to view your partition on you machine ... and need to remember it too . When you install new , in the section to define partition your can changeble those partition ... sir .. and second Question about How many your storgeable it can ? .. it depend on the type of your system files .. if you use ext2 it can be up to ... if you use ext3 it can be up to ... File System Stats Ext2FS Ext3FS ReiserFS JFS Maximum File System Size 4TB (Terabytes) 4TB 16TB 32PB (Petabytes) Block Size 1KB to 4KB 1KB to 4KB 4KB (up to 64KB) 512 Bytes to 4KB Maximum File Size 2GB 2GB 4GB 512TB to 4PB Stability Excellent Good Good Medium Tools to recover erased files Yes (complex) Yes (complex) No No Reboot time after crash Long to very long Fast Very fast Very fast Data recovery efficiency in case of a crash Generally speaking, good, but high risk of partial or total data loss N/A Very good. Complete data loss is very rare Very good and lastet ... for your swap partition ... almost many people use linux define that should be use 2 - 3 x of your Ram(memory ) example :: if you have 128 MB RAM , you should define 256 MB for swap . sir ... Hope u , correct your problem sir ... pratchaya Thanks a lot, Pratchaya. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do this ???
Muhammad Hanif Bay wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to know, if there are any, ways to convert my linux-partitioned hdd(ext2) into fat32 ??? Please, help medanke sehr. Why in heaven's name would you want to do this? (If you'll pardon my incredulity) -Stephen-
[newbie] How do I do this ???
Hi everyone, I'd like to know, if there are any, ways to convert my linux-partitioned hdd(ext2) into fat32 ??? Please, help medanke sehr.
Re: [newbie] How do I do this ???
Muhammad Hanif Bay wrote:
Hi
everyone,I'd like
to know, if there are any, ways to convert my linux-partitioned hdd(ext2)
into fat32 ???Please, help
medanke sehr.
Sure there's a way, and a few ways to boot.
Do you want to reformat the entire hdd, which hdd do you wish to format
(hda, hdb?), and if not the entire hdd, then what's the /dev/hd[ab]{n}
device file?
Also, do you have partition magic? Nifty tool for partition work
and certainly a worthwhile purchase, if you plan on needing to do this
kind of work a fair number of times over the next year or two or
three or more. I haven't regretted purchasing PM 3.x (3.0 I
think), and it's up to 5.x or higher now. One very nice feature of
this tool is that it allows you to resize partitions without destroying
the contents (I don't know of any other tool which has this capability).
You might find it sold at various prices; therefore, a little shopping
around might help to save as much as $20US.
mike
