Re: Simple Install Question

2001-04-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kevin Stokes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I wanted to have three partitions on my D: drive for Linux. One was going to be for the root only, which I alloted 65mb for. Another 1150mb partition was for /usr, /var and everything else. Lastly was another 65mb partition for swap. If you

Simple Install Question

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin Stokes
My apologies for stupid question, I've known nothing but Microsoft stuff until yesterday. After much learning, I finally got debian to the point where APT was almost configured when I ran out of disk space. Reason: I wanted to have three partitions on my D: drive for Linux. One was going

Re: Simple Install Question

2001-04-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: I wanted to have three partitions on my D: drive for Linux. I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS or Windows. :) Seriously, it is a useful distinction to make because if you call it my second hard drive, everyone

Re: Simple Install Question

2001-04-03 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: My apologies for stupid question, I've known nothing but Microsoft stuff until yesterday. After much learning, I finally got debian to the point where APT was almost configured when I ran out of disk space.

Re: Simple Install Question

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin Stokes
I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS or Windows. :) How about if I call it 'the little shiny box that makes whirring and clicking noises which is under the other one which is sort of like it?' :) Thanks for your consise and perfectly clear explanation

Re: Simple Install Question

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS or Windows. :) How about if I call it 'the little shiny box that makes whirring and clicking noises which is under the other one which is sort of like it?' :) Thanks