Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > /boot partition within the first 500 megabytes of the drive. 20 MB would be more than enough. I have 3 kernels on my /boot and use a little less than 10 MB Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a m

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:45 PM 10/31/2004 -0700, mike wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 03:14 PM 10/31/2004 -0700, mike wrote: > >> [...] >> I do use lilo. I have also been running a dual boot box with M$ and >> lilo has been writing to the master boot record. But this time it's >> all going to be Linux. I have a 30 g

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread mike
simon wrote: > hello > > mike wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have installed linux a few times no real problems with my >> installs. But going to move some drives around and do a fresh >> install. I usually install with the below >> >> / >> swap >> /boot >> /var >> /usr >> /home >> /tmp >> >> I use ext3

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread mike
Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 03:14 PM 10/31/2004 -0700, mike wrote: > >> [...] >> I do use lilo. I have also been running a dual boot box with M$ and >> lilo has been writing to the master boot record. But this time it's >> all going to be Linux. I have a 30 gig harddrive so I would assume I >> would

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread simon
hello mike wrote: Hello, I have installed linux a few times no real problems with my installs. But going to move some drives around and do a fresh install. I usually install with the below / swap /boot /var /usr /home /tmp I use ext3 and I am currently useing Mandrake distribution on an intel compa

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:14 PM 10/31/2004 -0700, mike wrote: [...] I do use lilo. I have also been running a dual boot box with M$ and lilo has been writing to the master boot record. But this time it's all going to be Linux. I have a 30 gig harddrive so I would assume I would be safe if I kept the /boot partition wi

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread mike
Thorsten Alge wrote: > Hi Mike, > > the order of the partitions doesnt really matter. Only if you want to > use lilo as your bootloader you should have your /boot partition under > cylinder 1024 - if you use grub you do not need an /boot partition. > > Am So, den 31.10.2004 schrieb mike um 20:22:

Re: partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread Thorsten Alge
Hi Mike, the order of the partitions doesnt really matter. Only if you want to use lilo as your bootloader you should have your /boot partition under cylinder 1024 - if you use grub you do not need an /boot partition. Am So, den 31.10.2004 schrieb mike um 20:22: > Hello, > I have installed linux

partitons and proper order

2004-10-31 Thread mike
Hello, I have installed linux a few times no real problems with my installs. But going to move some drives around and do a fresh install. I usually install with the below / swap /boot /var /usr /home /tmp I use ext3 and I am currently useing Mandrake distribution on an intel compatible machine wi