Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:36:10PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do

Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-19 Thread Julio Merino
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions

Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rob... the simple ones firstassumming you'd be using win2k and autocad... i'd try something like 8G-10G for win2k. as the first partition /dev/hda1 aka c: rest is up to linuxetc and if yu think you might want to boot debian and redhat and mandrake or something else

Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-18 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? I would do the following: /boot /dev/hda1 - primary 10 MB win2k /dev/hda2 - primary 1.5 GB / 2.0 GB (for growth) /var1.0 GB (or 2.0) for

RE: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-18 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
I have Win2K and Debian at home, (excuse: my day job is developing in MS env. Yuch) For my MS stuff I keep a 1.5G for system and programs, 250M for swap and a 1G FAT32 for files - NTFS is notoriously incompatible so I prefer FAT32 for personal stuff. Speed is only really an issue with loading

Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-17 Thread Rob
Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions like /boot, /user, and /home. What do you guys recommend ?

Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-17 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions like

recommended partitioning

1999-10-03 Thread jh
Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff

RE: recommended partitioning

1999-10-03 Thread Paul McHale
PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: recommended partitioning Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

RE: recommended partitioning

1999-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi Jeff, I would try a simple approach. You only need two partitions, root and swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory. 32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assigned

RE: recommended partitioning

1999-10-03 Thread John Gay
Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff Jeff, I know you've received at least one reply, but let me put in my 1.575128 Euro's worth. With