Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-07 Thread charles norwood
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:03 +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: Have you tried 20-30 per day? Everyday? That is the kind f stuff we have to ^ yipes! deal with here. Sometimes it is just fluctuation in the voltage and that is enough to reboot the system. Are you doing a

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:41:35PM -0700, charles norwood wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:03 +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: Have you tried 20-30 per day? Everyday? That is the kind f stuff we have to ^ yipes! deal with here. Sometimes it is just fluctuation in

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-07 Thread charles norwood
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:27 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:41:35PM -0700, charles norwood wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:03 +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: Have you tried 20-30 per day? Everyday? That is the kind f stuff we have to

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-06 Thread David Goodenough
or file systems? Thanx, Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:47 AM Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough

RE: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-06 Thread Tony Heal
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:56 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition I have had cases with repeated reboots, and ext3 recovers quite properly from almost every one. Obviously it can not handle serious hardware failure

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-05 Thread Anil Gupte
www.keeninc.net www.icinema.com - Original Message - From: Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. This system happens

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-05 Thread Anil Gupte
? Thanx, Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:47 AM Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Monday

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-04 Thread charles norwood
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was

Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Anil Gupte
Need help and advice. I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses.

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
). As for installing on a small root partition, check out DSL, which I believe has something like a 50 MB base install. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Anil Gupte
, Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition Anil Gupte wrote: Need help and advice. I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. This system happens to

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses. So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about 100MB), and make it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no corruption on constant reboots. The apps,